On this page you find some links to my current research:

Auction and Market Experiments

• Werner Güth, Kirsten Häger, Oliver Kirchkamp, Joachim Schwalbach (2010) “Testing Forbearance Experimentally - Duopolistic Competition of Conglomerate Firms”, submitted to RAND Journal of Economics
• Hannah Hörisch, Oliver Kirchkamp (2010), “Less fighting than expected - experiments with wars of attrition and all-pay auctions”, Public Choice, Vol. 144/1, pp. 347-367.
• Oliver Kirchkamp, Eva Poen, J. Philipp Reiß (2009), “Outside options: Another reason to choose the first-price auction”, European Economic Review, Vol. 53(2), pp. 153-169.
• Oliver Kirchkamp, J. Philipp Reiß, Abdolkarim Sadrieh (2007), “A pure variation of risk in first-price auctions”, under revision at International Economic Review
• Oliver Kirchkamp, J. Philipp Reiß (2011), “Out-of equilibrium bids in auctions - Wrong expectations or wrong bids”, Economic Journal, Vol. 121/557, pp. 1361-1397
• Oliver Kirchkamp, J. Philipp Reiß (2004), “The overbidding-myth and the underbidding-bias in first-price auctions”, SFB 504 discussion paper 04-32.
• Oliver Kirchkamp, Benny Moldovanu (2004), “An experimental analysis of auctions with interdependent valuation”, Games and Economic Behavior, Vol. 48/1, pp. 54-85.

Incomplete Contracts and Trust

• Marco Faravelli, Oliver Kirchkamp, Helmut Rainer, “Social welfare versus inequality aversion in an incomplete contract experiment”, submitted to Economic Journal
• Fabian Bornhorst, Andrea Ichino, Oliver Kirchkamp, Karl H. Schlag, Eyal Winter (2010), “Similarities and Differences when Building Trust: the Role of Cultures”, Experimental Economics, Vol. 13/3, pp. 260-283.

Macroeconomic Experiments

• Michele Bernasconi, Oliver Kirchkamp, Paolo Paruolo (2009), “Do fiscal variables affect fiscal expectations? Experiments with real world and lab data”, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organisation, forthcoming.
• Hannah Hörisch, Oliver Kirchkamp (2010), “Less fighting than expected - experiments with wars of attrition and all-pay auctions”, Public Choice, Vol. 144/1, pp. 347-.
• Michele Bernasconi, Oliver Kirchkamp, Paolo Paruolo (2003), “Expectations and perceived causality in fiscal policy: an experimental analysis using real world data”, SFB 504 discussion paper No. 03-03.
• Michele Bernasconi, Oliver Kirchkamp (2001), “The `Expectations view' on fiscal policy - An experiment using real world data.”, SFB 504 discussion paper No. 02-18.
• Michele Bernasconi, Oliver Kirchkamp (2000), “Why do monetary policies matter? An experimental study of saving and inflation in an overlapping generations model”, Journal of Monetary Economics, Vol. 46, pp. 315-343.

Local Interaction and Fairness, Experiments and Theory

• Werner Güth, Oliver Kirchkamp, “Will You Accept Without Knowing What? - A Thuringian Newspaper Experiment of the Yes-No Game”, submitted to Experimental Economics
• Oliver Kirchkamp, Rosemarie Nagel (2007), “Naive learning and cooperation in network experiments”, Games and Economic Behavior, Vol. 58/2, pp. 269-292.
• Oliver Kirchkamp (2000), “Spatial Evolution of Automata in the Prisoners' Dilemma”, Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organization, Vol. 43, pp. 239-262.
• Oliver Kirchkamp (1999), “Simultaneous evolution of learning rules and strategies”, Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organization, Vol. 40/3, pp. 295-312.
• Oliver Kirchkamp (2000), “Evolution of Learning Rules in Space”, in Ramzi Suleiman, Klaus G. Troitzsch and G. Nigel Gilbert, Tools and Techniques for Social Science Simulation, Physika Verlag, Heidelberg.
• Oliver Kirchkamp (1996), “Spatial Evolution of Automata in the Prisoners' Dilemma - Preliminary Results”, in K. G. Troitzsch, U. Mueller, G. N. Gilbert, J. E. Doran, Social Science Microsimulation, Springer.
• Oliver Kirchkamp (2000), Review of “Individual Strategy and Social Structure: An Evolutionary Theory of Institutions”, by H. Peyton Young, The Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation (JASSS), Volume 3, Issue 4.
• Oliver Kirchkamp, Rosemarie Nagel (2003), “No imitation - on local and group interaction, learning and reciprocity in prisoners' dilemma experiments”, SFB 504 discussion paper No. 03-04.
• Oliver Kirchkamp, Rosemarie Nagel (2001), “Repeated Game Strategies in Local and Group Prisoners' Dilemmas Experiments: First Results”, Homo Ökonomicus, XVIII(2) 2001, pp. 319-336.
• Oliver Kirchkamp, Rosemarie Nagel (2002), “Reinforcement, repeated games, and local interaction”, SFB 504 discussion paper No. 02-17.
• Oliver Kirchkamp, Rosemarie Nagel (2000), “Local and Group Interaction in Prisoners' Dilemma Experiments - Imitate locally, think globally”, SFB 504 discussion paper No. 00-11.

Migration

• Christian Dustmann, Oliver Kirchkamp (2002), “The Optimal Migration Duration and Activity Choice after Re-migration”, Journal of Development Economics, Vol. 67, pp. 351-372.

Experiments on the Internet

• Oliver Kirchkamp (1998), “WWW Experiments for Economists, a Technical Introduction”, SFB 504 discussion paper No. 98-47.