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Dr. Christian Thöni





Name
Dr. Christian Thöni

Division
Behavioral Economics

Function
Assistant Professor

Address
Varnbüelstrasse 14
CH-9000 St. Gallen

E-Mail
christian.thoeni@unisg.ch
Phone
+41 71 224 2548
Fax
+41 71 224 2302

Field of research
Behavioral Economics, Experimental Economics, Game Theory

Publications / Projects
Alexandria - Online Research Platform

CV
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Affiliations:

New Papers:


"Punishment Despite Reasonable Doubt – A Public Goods Experiment with Sanctions Under Uncertainty" forthcoming in Journal of Empirical Legal Studies (with Kristoffel R. Grechenig and Andreas Nicklisch). [Link]
"Culture and Cooperation" Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 365 (2010), pp. 2651-2661 (with Simon Gächter and Benedikt Herrmann) [PDF]


"Social Comparison and Performance: Experimental Evidence on the Fair Wage-Effort Hypothesis" forthcoming in Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization (with Simon Gächter). [Link]

Recent Work:
  • "Microfoundations of Social Capital" (with Erik Wengström and Jean-Robert Tyran). [Link] [Online Material]


  • "Bimodal Bidding in Experimental All-Pay Auctions" (with Christiane Ernst). [Link]


  • "Do Managers Reciprocate? Field Experimental Evidence from a Competitive Market", University of St.Gallen, Department of Economics, Discussion Paper No. 2007-09 (with Michel André Maréchal). [Link]



Antisocial Punishment Across Societies


Science, 319 (2008), pp. 1362-1367 (with Benedikt Herrmann and Simon Gächter). [PDF]


[Further information]



Selected Publications: (Complete publications)
  • "Measuring Conditional Cooperation: A Replication Study in Russia." Experimental Economics, 12 (2009), pp. 87-92 (with Benedikt Herrmann). [PDF]


  • "Excess entry in an experimental winner-take-all market", Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization.vol. 67 (2008), pp. 150-163 (with Urs Fischbacher). [PDF]


  • "Cross-cultural differences in norm enforcement", Comment on Joseph Henrich et al., "'Economic man' in cross-cultural perspective: Behavioral experiments in 15 small-scale societies", Behavioral and Brain Sciences, vol. 28 (2005), pp. 822 - 823 (with Simon Gächter and Benedikt Herrmann). [PDF]


  • "Social Learning and Voluntary Cooperation among Like-Minded People", Journal of the European Economic Association, vol. 3 (2005), pp. 303-314 (with Simon Gächter). [PDF] [WorkingPaper]


  • "Trust, voluntary cooperation, and socio-economic background: Survey and experimental evidence", Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, vol. 55 (2004), pp. 505-531 (with Simon Gächter and Benedikt Herrmann). [PDF]


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