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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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Do Incentive Contracts Crowd Out Voluntary Cooperation?
Fehr, Ernst; Gächter, Simon - 2013
reciprocity-driven voluntary cooperation. This crowding out effect constitutes costs of incentive provision that have been largely …
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Do incentive contracts crowd out voluntary cooperation?
Fehr, Ernst; Gächter, Simon - 2001
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Creating an efficient culture of cooperation
Fehr, Ernst; Williams, Tony - 2017
two relevant features of social life into the experiment: (i) subjects can migrate across groups with different … key to the quick emergence of an efficient culture of universal cooperation because the more prosocial subjects populate … social norm of high cooperation. This norm appears to guide subjects' cooperation and punishment choices, including the …
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Social norms, endogenous sorting and the culture of cooperation
Fehr, Ernst; Williams, Tony - 2018
quickly if we introduce two relevant features of social life into the experiment: (i) subjects can migrate across groups with … of universal cooperation because the more prosocial subjects populate the two efficient institutions first, elect … prosocial judges (if institutionally possible), and immediately establish a social norm of high cooperation. This norm appears …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011825357
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Social norms, endogenous sorting and the culture of cooperation
Fehr, Ernst; Williams, Tony - 2018
quickly if we introduce two relevant features of social life into the experiment: (i) subjects can migrate across groups with … of universal cooperation because the more prosocial subjects populate the two efficient institutions first, elect … prosocial judges (if institutionally possible), and immediately establish a social norm of high cooperation. This norm appears …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011844819
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The causal effect of trust
Bartling, Björn; Fehr, Ernst; Huffman, David; Netzer, Nick - 2018
Trust affects almost all human relationships - in families, organizations, markets and politics. However, identifying the conditions under which trust, defined as people's beliefs in the trustworthiness of others, has a causal effect on the efficiency of human interactions has proven to be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011946494
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The causal effect of trust
Bartling, Björn; Fehr, Ernst; Huffman, David; Netzer, Nick - 2018
Trust affects almost all human relationships - in families, organizations, markets and politics. However, identifying the conditions under which trust, defined as people's beliefs in the trustworthiness of others, has a causal effect on the efficiency of human interactions has proven to be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011926027
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The causal effect of trust
Bartling, Björn; Fehr, Ernst; Huffman, David; Netzer, Nick - 2018
Trust affects almost all human relationships - in families, organizations, markets and politics. However, identifying the conditions under which trust, defined as people's beliefs in the trustworthiness of others, has a causal effect on the efficiency of human interactions has proven to be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011927871
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Gift exchange and reciprocity in competitive experimental markets
Fehr, Ernst; Kirchsteiger, Georg; Riedl, Arno - 1995
One of the outstanding results of three decades of laboratory market research is that under rather weak conditions prices and quantities in competitive experimental markets converge to the competitive equilibrium. Yet, the design of these experiments ruled out gift exchange or reciprocity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009693902