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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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The economics of fairness, reciprocity and altruism : experimental evidence and new theories ; chapter written for the Handbook of reciprocity, gift-giving and altruism
Fehr, Ernst; Schmidt, Klaus M. - 2005 - This version: June 6, 2005
This paper surveys recent experimental and field evidence on the impact of concerns for fairness, reciprocity and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010440439
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Fairness and the optimal allocation of ownership rights
Fehr, Ernst; Kremhelmer, Susanne; Schmidt, Klaus M. - 2005 - This version: July 20, 2005
We report on several experiments on the optimal allocation of ownership rights. The experiments confirm the property rights approach by showing that the ownership structure affects relationship-specific investments and that subjects attain the most efficient ownership allocation despite starting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010440440
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Fairness and the optimal allocation of ownership rights
Fehr, Ernst; Kremhelmer, Susanne; Schmidt, Klaus M. - 2004 - This version: July 9, 2004
We report on several experiments on the optimal allocation of ownership rights. The experiments confirm the property rights approach by showing that the ownership structure affects relationship-specific investments and that the subjects achieve the most efficient ownership allocation starting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010365912
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The economics of fairness, reciprocity and altruism : experimental evidence and new theories ; chapter written for the Handbook of reciprocity, gift-giving and altruism
Fehr, Ernst; Schmidt, Klaus M. - 2005 - This version: June 6, 2005
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010371081
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On reputation : a microfoundation of contract enforcement and price rigidity
Fehr, Ernst; Brown, Martin; Zehnder, Christian - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003803754
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On reputation : a microfoundation of contract enforcement and price rigidity
Fehr, Ernst; Brown, Martin; Zehnder, Christian - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003804362
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Fair wages and effort provision : combining evidence from the lab and the field
Cohn, Alain; Fehr, Ernst; Götte, Lorenz - 2013
that only workers who display positive reciprocity in a lab experiment show reciprocal performance responses in the field …, while workers who lack positive reciprocity in the lab do not respond to the wage increase even if they feel underpaid at … interpret previous contradictory findings in the literature. -- Fairness Perception ; Positive Reciprocity ; Field Experiment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009747325
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Fairness, errors and the power of competition
Fischbacher, Urs; Fong, Christina M.; Fehr, Ernst - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 72 (2009) 1, pp. 527-545
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Reciprocal fairness, cooperation and limits to competition
Fehr, Ernst; Falk, Armin - In: Intersubjectivity in economics : agents and structures, (pp. 28-42). 2002
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001691845