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D-Index
53
Citations
19593
World Ranking
1161
National Ranking
38

Werner Güth publication distribution in Economics and Finance in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Economics and Finance in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Werner Güth sits on this spectrum.

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42 publications 521+

This scientist: 600 publications — 98th percentile

98% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 521 publications or more.

Werner Güth D-index placement in Economics and Finance in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Economics and Finance scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Werner Güth sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 53 D-Index — 69th percentile

69% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 101 D-Index or more.

Overview

Werner Güth is affiliated with the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods in Germany. Their research predominantly spans social sciences, decision sciences, and economics, econometrics, and finance.

Their primary work focuses on topics including:

  • Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
  • Law, Economics, and Judicial Systems
  • Game Theory and Applications
  • Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
  • Auction Theory and Applications
  • Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
  • Culture, Economy, and Development Studies

Main publication venues for their work include:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Games
  • Evolutionary and Institutional Economics Review
  • Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
  • Journal of Conflict Resolution

Some of their recent papers are:

  • "(Un)bounded rationality of decision deliberation," 2021, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
  • "AUCTIONS WITH LEAKS ABOUT EARLY BIDS: ANALYSIS AND EXPERIMENTAL BEHAVIOR," 2020, Economic Inquiry
  • "What are you calling intuitive? Subject heterogeneity as a driver of response times in an impunity game," 2021, HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)
  • "Personal information disclosure under competition for benefits: Is sharing caring?" 2023, Games and Economic Behavior
  • "When to stop - A cardinal secretary search experiment," 2020, Journal of Mathematical Psychology

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Daniela Di Cagno
  • Lorenzo Spadoni
  • Francesca Marazzi
  • Luca Panaccione
  • Andrej Angelovski

The subfields of study they work in include safety research, economics and econometrics, management science and operations research, sociology and political science, and general decision sciences.

Best Publications

  • An experimental analysis of ultimatum bargaining

    Werner Güth;Rolf Schmittberger;Bernd Schwarze

  • Ultimatum bargaining behavior: a survey and comparison of experimental results

    Werner Guth;Reinhard Tietz

  • More than thirty years of ultimatum bargaining experiments: Motives, variations, and a survey of the recent literature

    Werner Güth;Martin G. Kocher

  • Leading by example with and without exclusion power in voluntary contribution experiments

    W. Güth;M. V. Levati;Matthias Sutter;E. van der Heijden

  • On ultimatum bargaining experiments — A personal review

    Werner Güth

  • Is altruism evolutionarily stable

    Helmut Bester;Werner Güth

  • Information, strategic behavior, and fairness in ultimatum bargaining: an experimental study

    Werner Güth;Eric van Damme

  • An evolutionary approach to explaining cooperative behavior by reciprocal incentives

    Werner Güth

  • The Relevance of Equal Splits in Ultimatum Games

    Werner Güth;Steffen Huck;Wieland Müller

  • Bargaining outside the lab – a newspaper experiment of a three-person ultimatum game

    Werner Güth;Carsten Schmidt;Matthias Sutter

  • Overconfidence in investment decisions: An experimental approach

    Dennis A. V. Dittrich;Werner Güth;Boris Maciejovsky

  • On the Interaction of Risk and Time Preferences: An Experimental Study

    Vital Anderhub;Werner Güth;Uri Gneezy;Doron Sonsino

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

    Werner Guth;Steffen Huck;Peter Ockenfels

  • An experimental study of the repeated trust game with incomplete information

    Vital Anderhub;Dirk Engelmann;Werner Güth

  • COMPETITION OR CO‐OPERATION: ON THE EVOLUTIONARY ECONOMICS OF TRUST, EXPLOITATION AND MORAL ATTITUDES

    Werner Guth;Hartmut Kliemt

  • THE INDIRECT EVOLUTIONARY APPROACH: BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN RATIONALITY AND ADAPTATION

    Werner Güth;Hartmut Kliemt

  • Being of two minds: Ultimatum offers under cognitive constraints

    Dominique Cappelletti;Werner Güth;Matteo Ploner

  • An Experimental Test of Direct and Indirect Reciprocity in Case of Complete and Incomplete Information

    Martin Dufwenberg;Uri Gneezy;Werner Güth;Eric E. C. van Damme

  • Cooperation based on trust. An experimental investigation

    Werner Güth;Peter Ockenfels;Markus Wendel

  • Equitable choices in bargaining games with joint production

    Anita Gantner;Werner Güth;Manfred Königstein

  • Time and Decision: Economic and Psychological Perspectives on Intertemporal Choice: George Loewenstein, Daniel Read, Roy F. Baumeister (Eds.), Russel Sage Foundation, New York, USA, 2003, 569 pages, ISBN 0-87154-549-7

    Werner Güth

Frequent Co-Authors

Matthias Sutter
Matthias Sutter Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods
Axel Ockenfels
Axel Ockenfels University of Cologne
Martin G. Kocher
Martin G. Kocher University of Vienna
Eric van Damme
Eric van Damme Tilburg University
Reinhard Selten
Reinhard Selten University of Bonn
Steffen Huck
Steffen Huck Social Science Research Center Berlin
Uri Gneezy
Uri Gneezy University of California, San Diego
Jan Potters
Jan Potters Tilburg University
Martin Dufwenberg
Martin Dufwenberg University of Arizona
Theo Offerman
Theo Offerman University of Amsterdam

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