2026 Jörg Oechssler: Economics and Finance Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Economics and Finance	34	3067	2784	106	101	112	6419

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World Ranking

Current World Ranking

National Ranking

Current National Ranking

Publications

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Economics and Finance

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2784

106

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112

6419

Overview

Jörg Oechssler is affiliated with Heidelberg University in Germany and has contributed to several fields related to economics and decision sciences. Their work intersects with experimental behavioral economics, decision-making, finance, and game theory among others.

Their recent research outputs include publications across a variety of venues and topics. Notable papers are:

Copy Trading, 2020, Management Science
Measuring skill and chance in games, 2020, European Economic Review
The conditional contribution mechanism for repeated public goods - The general case, 2022, Journal of Economic Theory
The Binary Lottery Procedure does not induce risk neutrality in the Holt & Laury and Eckel & Grossman tasks, 2021, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
Do women shy away from risky skill games?, 2023, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization

Jörg Oechssler collaborates frequently with a number of coauthors. Among the most frequent are:

Simon Weidenholzer
Marco Lambrecht
José Apesteguía
Andis Sofianos

Their work has appeared regularly in several publication venues, most prominently:

AEA Randomized Controlled Trials
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
arXiv (Cornell University)
Management Science
European Economic Review

Their research spans several subfields of study, including:

Safety Research
Management Science and Operations Research
Economics and Econometrics
General Decision Sciences
Finance

The main topics covered in their academic papers include:

Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
Financial Markets and Investment Strategies
Gambling Behavior and Treatments
Auction Theory and Applications
Economic and Environmental Valuation
Game Theory and Applications

Best Publications

Cognitive Abilities and Behavioral Biases

Jörg Oechssler;Andreas Roider;Patrick W. Schmitz

710
Citations
More Order with Less Law: On Contract Enforcement, Trust, and Crowding

Iris Bohnet;Bruno S. Frey;Steffen Huck

652
Citations
Two are few and four are many: number effects in experimental oligopolies

Steffen Huck;Hans-Theo Normann;Jörg Oechssler

553
Citations
Learning in Cournot Oligopoly – an Experiment

Steffen Huck;Hans‐Theo Normann;Jorg Oechssler

484
Citations
Deception Through Telling the Truth?! Experimental Evidence From Individuals and Teams*

Matthias Sutter

449
Citations
Herding and Contrarian Behavior in Financial Markets - An Internet Experiment

Mathias Drehmann;Joerg Oechssler;Andreas Roider

356
Citations
The Indirect Evolutionary Approach to Explaining Fair Allocations

Steffen Huck;Jörg Oechssler

323
Citations
Does information about competitors’ actions increase or decrease competition in experimental oligopoly markets?

Steffen Huck;Hans-Theo Normann;Joerg Oechssler

263
Citations
Evolutionary dynamics on infinite strategy spaces

Jörg Oechssler;Frank Riedel

220
Citations
On the Dynamic Foundation of Evolutionary Stability in Continuous Models

Jörg Oechssler;Frank Riedel

171
Citations
Learning to like what you have ¿ explaining the endowment effect

Steffen Huck;Georg Kirchsteiger;Joerg Oechssler

163
Citations
Informational cascades in the laboratory : Do they occur for the right reasons?

Steffen Huck;Jörg Oechssler

156
Citations
Decentralization and the coordination problem

Jörg Oechssler

110
Citations
Brown–von Neumann–Nash dynamics: The continuous strategy case

Josef Hofbauer;Jörg Oechssler;Frank Riedel

104
Citations
Herding with and without payoff externalities — an internet experiment

Mathias Drehmann;Jörg Oechssler;Andreas Roider

97
Citations
On the ingredients for bubble formation: Informed traders and communication

Jörg Oechssler;Carsten Schmidt;Wendelin Schnedler

91
Citations
Cooperation as a result of learning with aspiration levels

Jörg Oechssler

88
Citations
Cooling-Off in Negotiations - Does It Work?

Jörg Oechssler;Andreas Roider;Patrick W. Schmitz

88
Citations
Imitation and the evolution of Walrasian behavior: theoretically fragile but behaviorally robust

Jose Apesteguia;Steffen Huck;Jörg Oechssler;Simon Weidenholzer

78
Citations
Stability of the Cournot Process - Experimental Evidence

Steffen Huck;Hans-Theo Normann;Joerg Oechssler

76
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Steffen Huck Social Science Research Center Berlin

Hans-Theo Normann Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf

Mathias Drehmann Bank for International Settlements

External Links

Personal website of Jörg Oechssler Google Scholar page

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