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Moral Sentiments and Material Interests: The Foundations of Cooperation in Economic Life

Gintis, Herbert (contributor); Bowles, Samuel (contributor); … - The MIT Press

of cooperation in humans and nonhuman primates, modeling and testing strong reciprocity in economic scenarios, and … that cooperation stems not from the stereotypical selfish agent acting out of disguised self-interest but from the presence … implications of this explanation for cooperation. Chapter authors in the remaining parts of the book discuss the behavioral ecology …

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Are People Conditionally Cooperative? Evidence from a Public Goods Experiment

Fischbacher, Urs; Gächter, Simon; Fehr, Ernst - 2001

We study the importance of conditional cooperation in a one-shot public goods game by using a variant of the strategy …

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On Reputation: A Microfoundation of Contract Enforcement and Price Rigidity

Fehr, Ernst; Brown, Martin; Zehnder, Christian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

We study the impact of reputational incentives in markets characterized by moral hazard problems. Social preferences have been shown to enhance contract enforcement in these markets, while at the same time generating considerable wage and price rigidity. Reputation powerfully amplifies the...

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