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Overview

Steffen Huck is affiliated with the Social Science Research Center Berlin in Germany. Their scholarly work centers on social sciences with notable engagement in fields such as sociology and political science, safety research, economics and econometrics, political science and international relations, and general decision sciences.

Their research topics encompass various areas, including:

  • Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
  • Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
  • Microfinance and Financial Inclusion
  • Migration and Labor Dynamics
  • Names, Identity, and Discrimination Research
  • Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
  • Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis

Steffen Huck has published extensively in several academic venues, with their frequent publication outlets including:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • AEA Randomized Controlled Trials
  • European Economic Review
  • Games and Economic Behavior
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Among their recent papers are:

  • Everyday Econometricians: Selection Neglect and Overoptimism When Learning from Others, 2024, American Economic Journal Microeconomics
  • Personalized fundraising: A field experiment on threshold matching of donations, 2022, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
  • Discrimination, Narratives, and Family History: An Experiment with Jordanian Host and Syrian Refugee Children, 2021, The Review of Economics and Statistics
  • The Standard Portfolio Choice Problem in Germany, 2021, The Economic Journal
  • Everyday econometricians: Selection neglect and overoptimism when learning from others, 2023, AEA Randomized Controlled Trials

Steffen Huck frequently collaborates with several scholars, including:

  • Kai Barron
  • Maja Adena
  • Heike Harmgart
  • Sebastian O. Schneider
  • Matthias Sutter

Best Publications

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

    Iris Bohnet;Bruno S. Frey;Steffen Huck

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

    Steffen Huck;Hans-Theo Normann;Jörg Oechssler

  • Repetition and Reputation: Implications for Trust and Trustworthiness When Institutions Change

    Iris Bohnet;Steffen Huck

  • Learning in Cournot Oligopoly – an Experiment

    Steffen Huck;Hans‐Theo Normann;Jorg Oechssler

  • Imitation—theory and experimental evidence

    Jose Apesteguia;Steffen Huck;Joerg Oechssler

  • The Indirect Evolutionary Approach to Explaining Fair Allocations

    Steffen Huck;Jörg Oechssler

  • The Relevance of Equal Splits in Ultimatum Games

    Werner Güth;Steffen Huck;Wieland Müller

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

    Steffen Huck;Hans-Theo Normann;Joerg Oechssler

  • Stackelberg Beats Cournot — On Collusion and Efficiency in Experimental Markets

    Steffen Huck;Wieland Muller;Hans-Theo Normann

  • Matched fundraising: evidence from a natural field experiment

    Steffen Huck;Imran Rasul

  • Social norms and economic incentives in firms

    Steffen Huck;Dorothea Kübler;Jörgen W. Weibull;Jörgen W. Weibull

  • Behavioral economics as applied to firms: a primer

    Mark Armstrong;Steffen Huck

  • Two-Level Ultimatum Bargaining with Incomplete Information: an Experimental Study

    Werner Guth;Steffen Huck;Peter Ockenfels

  • Competition fosters trust

    Steffen Huck;Gabriele K. Lünser;Jean-Robert Tyran;Jean-Robert Tyran

  • Learning to like what you have ¿ explaining the endowment effect

    Steffen Huck;Georg Kirchsteiger;Joerg Oechssler

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

    Steffen Huck;Jörg Oechssler

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

    Iris Bohnet;Bruno S. Frey;Steffen Huck;Steffen Huck;Steffen Huck

  • Do players correctly estimate what others do?: Evidence of conservatism in beliefs

    Steffen Huck;Georg Weizsäcker

  • From Ultimatum Bargaining to Dictatorship—an Experimental Study of Four Games Varying in Veto Power

    Werner Guth;Steffen Huck

  • Automatic imitation in a strategic context: players of rock-paper-scissors imitate opponents' gestures.

    Richard Cook;Geoffrey Bird;Gabriele Lünser;Steffen Huck

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

    Jose Apesteguia;Steffen Huck;Jörg Oechssler;Simon Weidenholzer

Frequent Co-Authors

Hans-Theo Normann
Hans-Theo Normann Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Jörg Oechssler
Jörg Oechssler Heidelberg University
Kai A. Konrad
Kai A. Konrad Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance
Jean-Robert Tyran
Jean-Robert Tyran University of Vienna
Imran Rasul
Imran Rasul University College London
Philippe Jehiel
Philippe Jehiel Paris School of Economics
Werner Güth
Werner Güth Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods
Jörgen W. Weibull
Jörgen W. Weibull Stockholm School of Economics
Bruno S. Frey
Bruno S. Frey University of Basel
Mark Armstrong
Mark Armstrong University of Oxford

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