Axel Ockenfels

Global rank #1208 98%

Institution: Universität zu Köln

Primary Field: Theory (weighted toward more recent publications)

Homepage: https://ockenfels.uni-koeln.de/ao

First Publication: 1998

Most Recent: 2025

RePEc ID: poc7 ↗

Publication Scores

Scores use coauthorship adjustment: α/n credit per paper, where n = number of authors. α = 2.01: calibrated so average adjusted count equals average raw count (a zero-sum adjustment).

Period	S (4x)	A (2x)	B (1x)	Total
Last 5 Years	0.67	0.67	2.18	6.20
Last 10 Years	1.68	1.84	3.18	13.57
All Time	5.70	5.36	17.21	51.65

Publication Statistics

Raw Publications 38

Coauthorship-Adjusted Count 30.24

Publications (38)

Year	Article	Journal	Tier	Authors
2025	Who Opts In? Composition Effects and Disappointment from Participation Payments	Review of Economics and Statistics	A	3
2024	Impartial policymakers prefer to impose carbon pricing to capping, especially when combined with offsets	Ecological Economics	B	3
2023	Fixing feedback revision rules in online markets	Journal of Economics & Management Strategy	B	4
2021	What Motivates Paternalism? An Experimental Study	American Economic Review	S	3
2021	Do people intervene to make others behave prosocially?	Games and Economic Behavior	B	2
2020	Norm Enforcement in Markets: Group Identity and the Volunteering of Feedback	Economic Journal	A	3
2020	Games as frames	Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization	B	2
2017	The Ethics of Incentivizing the Uninformed: A Vignette Study	American Economic Review	S	2
2017	Robust mechanism design and social preferences	Journal of Public Economics	A	4
2015	Social responsibility promotes conservative risk behavior	European Economic Review	B	3
2015	Surprising gifts: Theory and laboratory evidence	Journal of Economic Theory	A	3
2015	Timing of kindness – Evidence from a field experiment	Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization	B	3
2014	How Werner Güth's ultimatum game shaped our understanding of social behavior	Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization	B	17
2014	Does laboratory trading mirror behavior in real world markets? Fair bargaining and competitive bidding on eBay	Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization	B	2
2014	Impulse balance in the newsvendor game	Games and Economic Behavior	B	2
2014	Beliefs and ingroup favoritism	Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization	B	2
2014	Scale manipulation in dictator games	Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization	B	2
2013	An experiment on supply function competition	European Economic Review	B	4
2012	The dynamic interplay of inequality and trust—An experimental study	Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization	B	3
2012	Partnership dissolution mechanisms in the laboratory	Economics Letters	C	3
2012	‘Hiding behind a small cake’ in a newspaper dictator game	Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization	B	2
2011	Information value and externalities in reputation building	International Journal of Industrial Organization	B	3
2011	Still different after all these years: Solidarity behavior in East and West Germany	Journal of Public Economics	A	4
2011	Wage transparency and performance: A real-effort experiment	Economics Letters	C	3
2010	Betrayal Aversion: Evidence from Brazil, China, Oman, Switzerland, Turkey, and the United States: Comment	American Economic Review	S	2
2006	Inequality Aversion, Efficiency, and Maximin Preferences in Simple Distribution Experiments: Comment	American Economic Review	S	2
2006	Late and multiple bidding in second price Internet auctions: Theory and evidence concerning different rules for ending an auction	Games and Economic Behavior	B	2
2005	Cooperation among strangers with limited information about reputation	Journal of Public Economics	A	3
2005	A stress test of fairness measures in models of social utility	Economic Theory	B	2
2005	Impulse balance equilibrium and feedback in first price auctions	Games and Economic Behavior	B	2
2004	Take or Leave? Distribution in Asymmetric One‐Off Conflict	Kyklos	C	4
2003	Fairness versus efficiency: An experimental study of (mutual) gift giving	Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization	B	3
2002	Last-Minute Bidding and the Rules for Ending Second-Price Auctions: Evidence from eBay and Amazon Auctions on the Internet	American Economic Review	S	2
2000	ERC: A Theory of Equity, Reciprocity, and Competition	American Economic Review	S	2
2000	An Experiment on the Hypothesis of Involuntary Truth-Signalling in Bargaining	Games and Economic Behavior	B	2
1999	Types and patterns: an experimental East-West-German comparison of cooperation and solidarity	Journal of Public Economics	A	2
1998	Measuring Motivations for the Reciprocal Responses Observed in a Simple Dilemma Game	Experimental Economics	A	3
1998	An experimental solidarity game	Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization	B	2