Research

C-BEAM maintains a vibrant intellectual community, with lab meetings for project development, a biannual Research Day featuring presentations of ongoing projects, paper-writing retreats, and seminars and research visits by leading external scholars.

Below, you can find more information about our current research activities and a list of selected recent publications.

Research spotlights

Digital Tools to Help Unemployed Workers

The Roots of Honesty: How Family Environment Shapes Children's Truthfulness

The Intersection of Humans and Machines: Rethinking Decision-Making in the Age of AI

AI-Powered Truth Detection: Potential and Pitfalls of Algorithmic Lie Detectors

Selected publications

Earnings Expectations of “First-in Family” University Students and Their Role for Major Choice

Katharina Adler, Fabian Kosse, Markus Nagler, Johannes Rincke

Labour Economics, forthcoming

Mentoring and schooling decisions: Causal evidence

Armin Falk, Fabian Kosse, Pia Pinger

Journal of Political Economy, forthcoming

The persistent effect of competition on prosociality

Fabian Kosse, Ranjita Rajan, Michela Tincani

Journal of the European Economic Association, forthcoming

Artificial Intelligence, Distributional Fairness, and Pivotality

Victor Klockmann, Alicia von Schenk, Marie Claire Villeval

European Economic Review 2025, 178, 105098

Communicating through Defaults

Steffen Altmann, Armin Falk, Andreas Grunewald

The Review of Economics and Statistics 2025, 107 (1), 256-268

Malleability of preferences for honesty

Johannes Abeler, Armin Falk, Fabian Kosse

The Economic Journal 2025, 135 (667), 982-998

Social Preferences Toward Humans and Machines: A Systematic Experiment on the Role of Machine Payoffs

Alicia von Schenk, Victor Klockmann, Nils Köbis

Perspectives on Psychological Science 2025, 20 (1), 165-181

Lie Detection Algorithms Disrupt the Social Dynamics of Accusation Behavior

Alicia von Schenk, Victor Klockmann, Jean-François Bonnefon, Iyad Rahwan, Nils Köbis

iScience 2024, 27 (7), 110201

VAT pass-through: the case of a large and permanent reduction in the market for menstrual hygiene products

Alisa Frey, Justus Haucap

International Tax and Public Finance 2024, 31, 160-202

Delayed Risk in Individual and Social Decisions

Asri Özgümüs, Holger A. Rau, Stefan T. Trautmann

Journal of Economic Psychology 2024, 102, 102710

The Logarithmic Stochastic Tracing Procedure: A Homotopy Method to Compute Stationary Equilibria of Stochastic Games

Steffen Eibelshäuser, Victor Klockmann, David Poensgen, Alicia von Schenk

INFORMS Journal on Computing 2023, 35 (6), 1215-1532

Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Intergenerational Responsibility

Victor Klockmann, Alicia von Schenk, Marie Claire Villeval

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 2022, 203, 284-317

Deadlines and Memory Limitations

Steffen Altmann, Christian Traxler, Philipp Weinschenk

Management Science 2022, 68 (9), 6733-6750

Interventions and Cognitive Spillovers

Steffen Altmann, Andreas Grunewald, Jonas Radbruch

The Review of Economic Studies 2022, 89 (5), 2293-2328

Salience Bias and Overwork

Fabio Römeis, Fabian Herweg, Daniel Müller

Games 2022, 13, 15

A Comparison of Regret Theory and Salience Theory for Choice under Risk

Fabian Herweg, Daniel Müller

Journal of Economic Theory 2021, 193, 105225

The Right to Quit Work: An Efficiency Rationale for Restricting the Freedom of Contract

Daniel Müller, Patrick W. Schmitz

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 2021, 184, 653-669

Who is watching me? Disentangling audience and interpersonal closeness effects in a Pay-What-You-Want context

Elisa Hofmann, Michael E. Fiagbenu, Asri Özgümüs, Amir M. Tahamtan, Tobias Regner

Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics 2021, 90, 101631

Gender Bias in the Evaluation of Teaching Materials

Asri Özgümüs, Holger A. Rau, Stefan T. Trautmann, Christian König-Kersting

Frontiers in Psychology 2020, 11, 1074

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