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Falk, Armin; Fischbacher, Urs - 2001

This paper presents a formal theory of reciprocity. Reciprocity means that people reward kind actions and punish unkind …

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Why firms refuse to hire underbidders

Falk, Armin; Gächter, Simon - In: The unemployment debate : current issues, (pp. 125-154). 2000

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Wage rigidity in a competitive incomplete contract market

Fehr, Ernst; Falk, Armin - In: Journal of political economy 107 (1999) 1, pp. 106-134

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Wage Rigidity in a Competitive Incomplete Contract Market

Fehr, Ernst; Falk, Armin - EconWPA - 2003

Do employers and workers underbid prevailing wages if there is unemployment? Do employers take advantage of workers’ underbidding by lowering wages? We hypothesize that under conditions of incomplete labor contracts wage levels may positively affect workers’ propensity to cooperate. This, in...

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Wage Rigidity in a Competitive Incomplete Contract Market

Fehr, Ernst; Falk, Armin - 1999

Do employers and workers underbid prevailing wages if there is unemployment? Do employers take advantage of workers' underbidding by lowering wages? We hypothesize that under conditions of incomplete labor contracts, wage levels may positively affect workers' propensity to cooperate. This, in...

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Fairness and motivation

Falk, Armin - In: IZA World of Labor (2014)

How do firms motivate their employees to be productive? The conventional wisdom is that workers respond to monetary incentives—"Pay them more and they will work harder." However, a large and growing body of empirical evidence from laboratory and field experiments, surveys, and observational...

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Charitable Giving as a Gift Exchange : Evidence from a Field Experiment

Falk, Armin - 2004

warm-glow motive. Second, the paper confirms the economic relevance of reciprocity by using field data. This extends the … current body of research on reciprocity, which is almost exclusively confined to laboratory studies. …

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Psychological Foundations of Incentives

Fehr, Ernst; Falk, Armin - 2002

During the last two decades economists have made much progress in understanding incentives, contracts and organisations. Yet, they constrained their attention to a very narrow and empirically questionable view of human motivation. The purpose of this paper is to show that this narrow view of...

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Driving forces behind informal sanctions

Falk, Armin; Fehr, Ernst; Fischbacher, Urs - 2005

theories of fairness and reciprocity capture these forces. We find that cooperators' punishment is almost exclusively targeted …

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Homo reciprocans: survey evidence on prevalence, behavior and success

Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Sunde, Uwe - 2006

respond in-kind to hostile or kind actions. Little is known, however, about: (i) the prevalence of reciprocity in the … population, (ii) individual determinants of reciprocity, (iii) the correlation between positive and negative inclinations within … inclinations, in particular in terms of positive reciprocity. However, there is substantial heterogeneity in the degree of …

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