Andreas Ortmann

Selected publications

• 'Are the unskilled doomed to remain unaware?', (with Dmitry Ryvkin and Marian Krajc), Journal of Economic Psychology 33, 2012, 1012 - 31.
• 'The lingering effects of our past experiences: The sunk-cost fallacy and the inaction inertia effect,' (with Orit Tykocinski), Social and Personality Psychology Compass 59, 2011, 653 - 64.

• 'The Way in Which an Experiment Is Conducted Is Unbelievably Important': On the Experimentation Practices of Economists and Psychologists', pp. 38 - 55 in E.H. Witte & T. Gollan (eds.), Tagungsband zum 25. Hamburger Symposion -Schwerpunktthema: Sozialpsychologie und Ökonomie, Pabst Verlag 2010

• 'Do Self-Regulation Clubs Work? Some Evidence from Europe and Some Caveats From Economic Theory,' (with Katarina Svitkova), pp. 152 - 168 in M.K. Gugerty & A. Prakash (eds.), Voluntary Regulation of NGOs and Non-Profits: An Accountability Club Framework, Cambridge University Press 2010

• 'Certification and Self-Regulation of Non-Profits, and the Institutional Choice Between Them,' (with Jan Myslivecek), pp. 280 - 290 in B. Seaman & D. Young (eds.), Handbook of Research on Nonprofit Economics and Management, Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing 2010

• 'Understanding the Plott-Wit-Yang paradox,' (with Katarina Kalovcova), The Journal of Prediction Markets, 3.3., 2009, 33-34
• 'How Uncertain is the Uncertainty Effect?' (with Ondrej Rydval, Sasha Prokosheva, and Ralph Hertwig), Experimental Economics, 12.4., 2009, 473-487
• 'Three Simple Games (And What It Takes to Solve Them).' (with Michal Ostatnicky and Ondrej Rydval), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 72.1., 2009, 589-601
• 'Economic Theories of Nonprofit Organization,' (with Petra Brhlikova), in H.K. Anheier & S. Toepler (eds.), International Encyclopedia of Civil Society, Springer, 2010, 1521-1527
• 'Prospecting NeuroEconomics', Economics & Philosophy, 24.3., 2008, 431-448
• 'Are the Unskilled Really that Unaware? An Alternative Explanation,' (with Marian Krajc), Journal of Economic Psychology, 29.6., 2008, 724 - 738
• 'The Unbundling Regime for Electricity in the EU: A Case of Legislative and Regulatory Capture? (with Silvester van Koten), Energy Economics, 30, 2008, 3128 - 3140
• 'A First Experimental Test of Multilevel Game Theory: The PD Case,' (with Kjell Hausken), Applied Economics Letters, 15.4., 2008, 261 - 264
• 'Deception in Social Psychological Experiments: Two Misconceptions and a Research Agenda,' (with Ralph Hertwig), Social Psychology Quarterly, 71.3., 2008, 222 - 227
• 'Deception in Experiments: Revisiting the Arguments in Its Defense,' (with Ralph Hertwig), Ethics and Behavior 18.1., 2008, 59 - 92
• 'Three Prominent Tournament Formats: Predictive Power and Costs' (with Dmitry Ryvkin), Management Science 54.3., 2008, 492 - 504
• 'When and Why? A Critical Review of Coordination Failure in the Laboratory,' (with Giovanna Devetag), Experimental Economics 10, 2007, 331 - 344
• 'Experiments in Solving Coordination Problems,' (with Giovanna Devetag), pp. 407 - 432 in J. Sell and M. Webster (eds.), Laboratory Experiments in the Social Sciences. Elsevier, 2007
• 'The Effects of Costless Pre-play Communication: Experimental Evidence from Games with Pareto-ranked Equilibria,' (with Andreas Blume), Journal of Economic Theory 132, 2007, 274 - 290
• 'Loss avoidance as selection principle: Evidence from simple stag-hunt games,' (with Ondrej Rydval), Economics Letters 88.1., 2005, 101-107
• 'How financial incentives and cognitive abilities affect task performance in laboratory settings: an illustration,' (with Ondrej Rydval), Economics Letters 85.3., 2004, 315-320
• 'The Cognitive Illusions Controversy: A Methodological Debate in Disguise That Matters To Economists,' (with Ralph Hertwig), pp. 113-130 in R. Zwick and A. Rapoport (eds.), Experimental Business Research III, Boston, MA: Kluwer, 2004
• 'Trust, Repute, and the Role of Nonprofit Enterprise,' (with Mark Schlesinger), pp.77-114 in H. Anheier & A. Ben-Ner (eds.), The Study of the Nonprofit Enterprise, Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 2003[Revised version of the 1997 Voluntas article with the same title]
• 'The Costs of Deception: Evidence From Psychology,' (with Ralph Hertwig), Experimental Economics 5.2., 2002, 111-131
• 'Money, lies, and replicability: On the need for empirically grounded experimental practices and interdisciplinary discourse,' (with Ralph Hertwig), Behavioral and Brain Sciences 24, 2001, 433-451
• 'Experimental Practices in Economics: A Challenge for Psychologists? [target article],' (with Ralph Hertwig), Behavioral and Brain Sciences 24, 2001, 383-403
• 'Capital Romance: Why Wall Street Fell in Love With Higher Education,' Education Economics 9.3., 2001, 293-311
• 'How can we open up the adaptive toolbox?' (with Gerd Gigerenzer, Peter M. Todd, et al.), Behavioral and Brain Sciences 23.6., 2000, 767-777
• 'Trust, Reciprocity, and Social History: A Re-examination' (with John Fitzgerald and Carl Boeing), Experimental Economics 3.3., 2000, 81-100. [Reprinted in E.L. Khalil (ed), Trust, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2003, pp. 427-446.]
• 'A Game-theoretic Explanation of the Administrative Lattice in Institutions of Higher Learning,' (with Richard C. Squire), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 43.3., 2000, 377-392
• 'Understanding Gender Effects in the Laboratory: Evidence from Prisoner’s Dilemma Games,' (with Lisa Tichy), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 39.3., 1999, 327-339
• 'Reasoning in Economics and Psychology: Why Social Context Matters,' (with Gerd Gigerenzer), pp. 131-145 in M.E. Streit, U. Mummert and D. Kiwit (eds.), Cognition, Rationality, and Institutions, Springer, 2000.[Revised version of the 1997 JITE article with the same title]
• 'The Nature and Causes of Corporate Negligence, Sham Lectures, and Ecclesiastical Indolence: Adam Smith on Joint-Stock Companies, Teachers, and Preachers,' History of Political Economy 31.2., 1999, 297-315
• 'Modern Economic Theory and the Study of Nonprofit Organizations: Why the Twain Shall Meet,' Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly 25.4., 1996, 470-484
• 'Self-Command in Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments. A Game-Theoretic Re-interpretation,' (with Stephen J. Meardon), Rationality and Society 8.1., 1996, 57-80
• 'A Game-Theoretic Re-Evaluation of Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments and Wealth of Nations,' (with Stephen J. Meardon), pp. , 43-61 in Ingrid Rima (ed.), The Classical Tradition in Economic Thought, Proceedings of 20th HES meetings, Elgar 1995
• 'On the Origin of Conventions: Evidence from Symmetric Bargaining Games,' (with John vanHuyck, et al.), International Journal of Game Theory 24.2., 1995, 187-212

• Experimental and behavioural economics
• Governance of non-profit organisations
• Quality assurance mechanisms
• Experimental practices in economics and psychology
• History of economic thought (Adam Smith)

• 'Reconnecting and Engaging Superannuation Fund Members', LP110100489