We show that concerns for fairness may have dramatic consequences for the optimal provision of incentives in a moral … concerned about fairness. Conversely, contracts that are doomed to fail when there are only selfish actors provide powerful …

In this paper we show that a simple model of fairness preferences explains major experimental regularities of common …

systematically refutes the self-interest hypothesis and suggests that many people are strongly motivated by concerns for fairness and … reciprocity. Moreover, several theoretical papers have been written showing that the observed phenomena can be explained in a … insights into the nature of preferences and into the relative performance of competing theories of fairness. The purpose of …

, inducing them to resist entering into employment contracts. This resistance to employment contracts vanishes if fairness …

mechanism reliably supports the evolution of cooperation when actions vary continuously. Ambiguous reciprocity, a strategy … can stabilise cooperative strategies against the corrosive effect of ambiguous reciprocity. Evolved strategies often … consist of cooperative reciprocity with ingroup partners and uncooperative reciprocity with outgroup partners. Results from a …

We show experimentally that fairness concerns may have a decisive impact on both the actual and the optimal choice of … inferior when some agents value fairness. Conversely, implicit bonus contracts that are doomed to fail among purely selfish … recently developed theories of fairness, which also offer interesting new insights into the interaction of contract choices …