Experiment Center

Economic experiments – be it in the lab or the field – provide a valuable method to explore the foundations, mechanisms, and implications of economic decision-making in financial contexts and institutions. Researchers at the SAFE Experiment Center use this method to study key questions, for example, in household finance, corporate governance, or financial markets. Experiments help to identify causal relations, measure “behavioral heterogeneity” (e.g., in economic preferences or beliefs), as well as assist policymakers in evaluating the effects of particular interventions and institutions.

The SAFE Experiment Center is a collaboration between the Leibniz Institute for Financial Research SAFE and the Frankfurt Laboratory for Experimental Economic Research FLEX.


Publications

Author/s Title Area Type Published
Peter Andre, Ingar Haaland, Christopher Roth, Mirko Wiederholt, Johannes Wohlfart Narratives about the Macroeconomy
SAFE Working Paper No. 426
Household Finance, Experiment Center SAFE Working Paper 2024
Peter Andre, Marc Kaufmann, Botond Köszegi Understanding Markets with Socially Responsible Consumers
Quarterly Journal of Economics
Experiment Center Published Paper 2024
Julian Detemple Thoughts about the Dictator and Trust Game
SAFE Working Paper No. 422
Household Finance, Experiment Center SAFE Working Paper 2024
Michael Kosfeld, Zahra Sharafi The Preference Survey Module: Evidence on Social Preferences from Tehran
Journal of the Economic Science Association
Household Finance, Experiment Center Published Paper 2024
Peter Andre, Teodora Boneva, Felix Chopra, Armin Falk Misperceived Social Norms and Willingness to Act Against Climate Change
SAFE Working Paper No. 414
Experiment Center SAFE Working Paper 2024
Peter Andre, Teodora Boneva, Felix Chopra, Armin Falk Globally Representative Evidence on the Actual and Perceived Support for Climate Action
Nature Climate Change
Experiment Center Published Paper 2024
Kevin Bauer, Rebecca Heigl, Oliver Hinz, Michael Kosfeld Feedback Loops in Machine Learning: A Study on the Interplay of Continuous Updating and Human Discrimination
Journal of the Association for Information System
Household Finance, Experiment Center Published Paper 2024
Benjamin M. Abdel-Karim, Kevin Bauer, Rebecca Heigl, Oliver Hinz, Michael Kosfeld, Nicolas Winfried Pfeuffer The Terminator of Social Welfare? - The Economic Consequences of Algorithmic Discrimination
forthcoming in Journal of the Association of Information Systems
Experiment Center Published Paper 2024
Peter Andre Shallow Meritocracy
forthcoming in Review of Economic Studies
Experiment Center Published Paper 2024
Peter Andre, Teodora Boneva, Felix Chopra, Armin Falk Misperceived Social Norms and Willingness to Act Against Climate Change
forthcoming in The Review of Economics and Statistics
Experiment Center Published Paper 2024

Research Projects

Household Finance, Experiment Center
Household Finance, Experiment Center
Communication, Echo Chambers, Biased Beliefs
Household Finance, Experiment Center

Current Research Team

Researcher Position
Andre, Peter Assistant Professor
Famulok, Jakob Doctoral Student
Gill, Andrej SAFE Fellow
Hett, Florian SAFE Fellow
Kosfeld, Michael Professor
Laudenbach, Christine Professor
Liebich, Lena Doctoral Student
von Siemens, Ferdinand SAFE Fellow