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Fehr, Ernst; Falk, Armin - 2002

During the last two decades economists have made much progress in understanding incentives, contracts and organisations … effects of incentives. Economists may fail to understand the levels and the changes in behaviour if they neglect motives like … the desire to reciprocate or the desire to avoid social disapproval. We show that monetary incentives may backfire and …

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Psychological Foundations of Incentives

Fehr, Ernst; Falk, Armin - 2001

During the last two decades economists have made much progress in understanding incentives, contracts and organisations … effects of incentives.... …

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Driving forces behind informal sanctions

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

This paper investigates the driving forces behind informal sanctions in cooperation games and the extent to which theories of fairness and reciprocity capture these forces. We find that cooperators' punishment is almost exclusively targeted towards the defectors but the latter also impose a...

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Group affiliation and altruistic norm enforcement

Bernhard, Helen; Fehr, Ernst; Fischbacher, Urs - In: The American economic review 96 (2006) 2, pp. 217-221

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Caste and punishment : the legacy of caste culture in norm enforcement

Hoff, Karla Ruth; Kshetramade, Mayuresh; Fehr, Ernst - 2009

Well-functioning groups enforce social norms that restrain opportunism, but the social structure of a society may encourage or inhibit norm enforcement. Here we study how the exogenous assignment to different positions in an extreme social hierarchy - the caste system - affects individuals'...