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  1. Inequality aversion predicts support for public and private redistribution

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, September 2024, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  2. Preferences predict who commits crime among young men

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, January 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  3. Fair Wages and Effort Provision: Combining Evidence from a Choice Experiment and a Field Experiment

    Article • Management Science, August 2015, INFORMS

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  4. Eye spots do not increase altruism in children

    Article • Evolution and Human Behavior, May 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  5. Does General Motivation Energize Financial Reward-Seeking Behavior? Evidence from an Effort Task

    Article • PLOS One, September 2014, PLOS

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  6. The neurobiology of rewards and values in social decision making

    Article • Nature Reviews Neuroscience, July 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  7. Does Money Illusion Matter?: Reply †

    Article • American Economic Review, March 2014, American Economic Association

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  8. Preface

    Article • January 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  9. Acknowledgments

    Article • January 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  10. Introduction: A Brief History of Neuroeconomics

    Article • January 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  11. Social Preferences and the Brain

    Article • January 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  12. Pharmacology of Economic and Social Decision Making

    Article • January 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  13. Can we see inside? Predicting strategic behavior given limited information

    Article • Evolution and Human Behavior, July 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  14. A TMS Investigation into the Role of rTPJ in Donation Behavior

    Article • January 2013, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  15. Health effects on children's willingness to compete

    Article • Experimental Economics, March 2012, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  16. COMPETITION AND RELATIONAL CONTRACTS: THE ROLE OF UNEMPLOYMENT AS A DISCIPLINARY DEVICE

    Article • Journal of the European Economic Association, February 2012, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  17. The social structure of cooperation and punishment

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, January 2012, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  18. Facial cues and trust-related behavior

    Article • January 2012, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  19. Neuroeconomic Foundations of Economic Choice—Recent Advances

    Article • Journal of Economic Perspectives, November 2011, American Economic Association

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  20. How Do Informal Agreements and Renegotiation Shape Contractual Reference Points?

    Article • October 2011, National Bureau of Economic Research

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  21. Tastes, Castes, and Culture: The Influence of Society on Preferences

    Article • August 2011

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  22. The role of testosterone in social interaction

    Article • Trends in Cognitive Sciences, June 2011, Elsevier

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  23. Contracts as Reference Points—Experimental Evidence

    Article • American Economic Review, April 2011, American Economic Association

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  24. Tastes, Castes, and Culture: The Influence of Society on Preferences

    Article • January 2011, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  25. Institutions Fostering Public Goods Provision

    Article • January 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  26. The Neural Circuitry of a Broken Promise

    Article • Neuron, December 2009, Elsevier

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  27. Self-reinforcing market dominance

    Article • Games and Economic Behavior, November 2009, Elsevier

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  28. Caste And Punishment: The Legacy Of Caste Culture In Norm Enforcement

    Article • September 2009

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  29. Egalitarianism and Competitiveness

    Article • American Economic Review, April 2009, American Economic Association

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  30. On Reputation: A Microfoundation of Contract Enforcement and Price Rigidity

    Article • The Economic Journal, February 2009, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  31. Social Preferences and the Brain

    Article • January 2009, Elsevier

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  32. Introduction

    Article • January 2009, Elsevier

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  33. Caste and Punishment: The Legacy of Caste Culture in Norm Enforcement

    Article • January 2009, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  34. You Shouldn't Have: Your Brain on Others' Crimes

    Article • Neuron, December 2008, Elsevier

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  35. Contracts as Reference Points - Experimental Evidence

    Article • November 2008, National Bureau of Economic Research

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  36. Egalitarianism in young children

    Article • Nature, August 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  37. Fairness and the Optimal Allocation of Ownership Rights

    Article • The Economic Journal, August 2008, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  38. Spite and Development

    Article • May 2008

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  39. Spite and Development

    Article • American Economic Review, April 2008, American Economic Association

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  40. Spite and Development

    Article • January 2008, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  41. Chapter 37 Reciprocity and Contract Enforcement

    Article • January 2008, Elsevier

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  42. Chapter 38 Reciprocity in Experimental Markets

    Article • January 2008, Elsevier

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  43. Chapter 98 Intertemporal Choice under Habit Formation

    Article • January 2008, Elsevier

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  44. Testing theories of fairness—Intentions matter

    Article • Games and Economic Behavior, January 2008, Elsevier

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  45. Chapter 15 Wage Differentials in Experimental Efficiency Wage Markets

    Article • January 2008, Elsevier

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  46. Social neuroeconomics: the neural circuitry of social preferences

    Article • Trends in Cognitive Sciences, October 2007, Elsevier

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  47. The Neural Signature of Social Norm Compliance

    Article • Neuron, October 2007, Elsevier

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  48. Human Motivation and Social Cooperation: Experimental and Analytical Foundations

    Article • Annual Review of Sociology, August 2007, Annual Reviews

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  49. An Incentive Solution to the Peer Review Problem

    Article • PLoS Biology, April 2007, PLOS

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  50. Explaining altruistic behaviour in humans

    Article • April 2007, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  51. Money illusion and coordination failure

    Article • Games and Economic Behavior, February 2007, Elsevier

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  52. Fairness and Contract Design

    Article • Econometrica, January 2007, The Econometric Society

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  53. Experiments on parochial altruism in humans: procedures and instructions

    Article • Protocol Exchange, August 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  54. Parochial altruism in humans

    Article • Nature, August 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  55. Group Affiliation and Altruistic Norm Enforcement

    Article • American Economic Review, May 2006, American Economic Association

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  56. Individual Irrationality and Aggregate Outcomes

    Article • Journal of Economic Perspectives, December 2005, American Economic Association

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  57. Driving Forces Behind Informal Sanctions

    Article • Econometrica, November 2005, The Econometric Society

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  58. Oxytocin increases trust in humans

    Article • June 2005

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  59. The Neuroeconomics of Mind Reading and Empathy

    Article • American Economic Review, May 2005, American Economic Association

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  60. Neuroeconomic Foundations of Trust and Social Preferences: Initial Evidence

    Article • American Economic Review, May 2005, American Economic Association

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  61. Robustness and real consequences of nominal wage rigidity

    Article • Journal of Monetary Economics, May 2005, Elsevier

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  62. Human behaviour: Egalitarian motive and altruistic punishment (reply)

    Article • January 2005, Nature

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  63. Human altruism: economic, neural, and evolutionary perspectives

    Article • Current Opinion in Neurobiology, December 2004, Elsevier

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  64. Human behaviour: Don't lose your reputation

    Article • November 2004

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  65. Fairness and Incentives in a Multi‐task Principal–Agent Model

    Article • Scandinavian Journal of Economics, October 2004, Wiley

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  66. Relational Contracts and the Nature of Market Interactions

    Article • Econometrica, May 2004, The Econometric Society

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  67. The productivity of failures

    Article • April 2004

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  68. Social norms and human cooperation

    Article • Trends in Cognitive Sciences, April 2004, Elsevier

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  69. Foundations of Human Sociality

    Article • March 2004, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  70. Introduction and Guide to the Volume

    Article • March 2004, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  71. Overview and Synthesis

    Article • March 2004, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  72. Measuring Social Norms and Preferences Using Experimental Games: A Guide for Social Scientists

    Article • March 2004, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  73. Third-party punishment and social norms

    Article • Evolution and Human Behavior, March 2004, Elsevier

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  74. The nature of human altruism

    Article • October 2003

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  75. Why labour market experiments?

    Article • Labour Economics, August 2003, Elsevier

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  76. Explaining altruistic behavior in humans

    Article • Evolution and Human Behavior, May 2003, Elsevier

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  77. Detrimental effects of sanctions on human altruism

    Article • Nature, March 2003, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  78. The puzzle of human cooperation

    Article • Nature, February 2003, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  79. On the Nature of Fair Behavior

    Article • Economic Inquiry, January 2003, Wiley

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  80. Psychological foundations of incentives

    Article • European Economic Review, May 2002, Elsevier

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  81. Strong reciprocity, human cooperation, and the enforcement of social norms

    Article • Human Nature, March 2002, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  82. Altruistic punishment in humans

    Article • Nature, January 2002, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  83. The economics of impatience

    Article • Nature, January 2002, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  84. Ursachen nominaler Rigiditäten

    Article • January 2002, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  85. Fairness in the Labour Market

    Article • January 2002, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  86. The Economics of Fair Play

    Article • Scientific American A Matter of Time, January 2002, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  87. Does Money Illusion Matter?

    Article • American Economic Review, December 2001, American Economic Association

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  88. Are people conditionally cooperative? Evidence from a public goods experiment

    Article • Economics Letters, June 2001, Elsevier

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  89. Wie wirken Anreizverträge?

    Article • January 2001, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  90. Cooperation and Punishment in Public Goods Experiments

    Article • American Economic Review, September 2000, American Economic Association

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  91. Fairness and Retaliation: The Economics of Reciprocity

    Article • Journal of Economic Perspectives, August 2000, American Economic Association

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  92. Fairness, incentives, and contractual choices

    Article • European Economic Review, May 2000, Elsevier

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  93. Collective action as a social exchange

    Article • Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, July 1999, Elsevier

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  94. Wage Rigidity in a Competitive Incomplete Contract Market

    Article • Journal of Political Economy, February 1999, University of Chicago Press

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  95. Do Addicts Behave Rationally?

    Article • Scandinavian Journal of Economics, September 1998, Wiley

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  96. Reciprocity and economics: The economic implications of Homo Reciprocans

    Article • European Economic Review, May 1998, Elsevier

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  97. How effective are trust- and reciprocity-based incentives?

    Article • April 1998, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  98. Gift exchange and reciprocity in competitive experimental markets

    Article • European Economic Review, January 1998, Elsevier

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  99. Reciprocity as a Contract Enforcement Device: Experimental Evidence

    Article • Econometrica, July 1997, JSTOR

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  100. Does Social Exchange Increase Voluntary Cooperation?

    Article • Kyklos, November 1996, Wiley

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  101. Involuntary Unemployment and Non-Compensating Wage Differentials in an Experimental Labour Market

    Article • The Economic Journal, January 1996, JSTOR

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  102. Insider Power, Wage Discrimination and Fairness

    Article • The Economic Journal, May 1994, JSTOR

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  103. Two forms of workers' enterprises facing imperfect labor markets

    Article • Economics Letters, January 1993, Elsevier

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  104. Union Power and (Un)Employment

    Article • Labour, September 1990, Wiley

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  105. Macht und Ökonomie Das Beispiel atomistischer Arbeitsmärkte

    Article • January 1988, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  106. Individual Irrationality and Aggregate Outcomes

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Social Science Electronic Publishing

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  107. On the Economics and Biology of Trust

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Social Science Electronic Publishing

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  108. A Theory of Fairness, Competition and Cooperation

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Social Science Electronic Publishing

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  109. Fairness, Incentives, and Contractual Choices

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Social Science Electronic Publishing

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  110. Intertemporal Choice Under Habit Formation

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Social Science Electronic Publishing

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  111. Informal Sanctions

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Social Science Electronic Publishing

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  112. Psychological Foundations of Incentives

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Social Science Electronic Publishing

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  113. Do Incentive Contracts Undermine Voluntary Cooperation?

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Social Science Electronic Publishing

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  114. Money Illusion and Coordination Failure

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Social Science Electronic Publishing

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  115. Third Party Punishment and Social Norms

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Social Science Electronic Publishing

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  116. Driving Forces of Informal Sanctions

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Social Science Electronic Publishing

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  117. Health Effects on Children’s Willingness to Compete

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Social Science Electronic Publishing

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  118. Cooperativeness and Impatience in the Tragedy of the Commons

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Social Science Electronic Publishing

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  119. Contracts as Reference Points - Experimental Evidence

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Social Science Electronic Publishing

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  120. Self-Reinforcing Market Dominance

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Social Science Electronic Publishing

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  121. Discretion, Productivity, and Work Satisfaction

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Social Science Electronic Publishing

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  122. The Intrinsic Value of Decision Rights

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Social Science Electronic Publishing

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  123. Do Incentive Contracts Crowd Out Voluntary Cooperation?

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Social Science Electronic Publishing

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  124. Fairness and Retaliation: The Economics of Reciprocity

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Social Science Electronic Publishing

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  125. Testing Theories of Fairness - Intentions Matter

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Social Science Electronic Publishing

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  126. Fairness and Incentives in a Multi-Task Principal-Agent Model

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Social Science Electronic Publishing

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  127. Fairness, Errors and the Power of Competition

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Social Science Electronic Publishing

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  128. Contractual Incompleteness and the Nature of Market Interactions

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Social Science Electronic Publishing

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  129. On the Nature of Fair Behavior

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Social Science Electronic Publishing

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  130. Health Effects on Children’s Willingness to Compete

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Social Science Electronic Publishing

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  131. Fairness in the Labour Market? A Survey of Experimental Results

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Social Science Electronic Publishing

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  132. Does Money Illusion Matter? An Experimental Approach

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Social Science Electronic Publishing

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  133. Evidence for Countercyclical Risk Aversion: An Experiment with Financial Professionals

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Social Science Electronic Publishing

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  134. Theories of Fairness and Reciprocity: Evidence and Economic Applications

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  135. The Role of Equality, Efficiency, and Rawlsian Motives in Social Preferences: A Reply to Engelmann and Strobel

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Social Science Electronic Publishing

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  136. How Do Informal Agreements and Renegotiation Shape Contractual Reference Points?

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Social Science Electronic Publishing

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  137. A Behavioral Account of the Labor Market: The Role of Fairness Concerns

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Social Science Electronic Publishing

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  138. Screening, Competition, and Job Design: Economic Origins of Good Jobs

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Social Science Electronic Publishing

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  139. On Reputation: A Microfoundation of Contract Enforcement and Price Rigidity

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Social Science Electronic Publishing

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  140. Big Experimenter is Watching You! Anonymity and Prosocial Behavior in the Laboratory

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Social Science Electronic Publishing

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  141. How Do Informal Agreements and Renegotiation Shape Contractual Reference Points?

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Social Science Electronic Publishing

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  142. Limited Rationality and Strategic Interaction - The Impact of the Strategic Environment on Nominal Inertia

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Social Science Electronic Publishing

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  143. Fair Wages and Effort Provision: Combining Evidence from the Lab and the Field

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Social Science Electronic Publishing

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  144. The Lure of Authority: Motivation and Incentive Effects of Power

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Social Science Electronic Publishing

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  145. Are People Conditionally Cooperative? Evidence from a Public Goods Experiment

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Social Science Electronic Publishing

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  146. Why Social Preferences Matter - The Impact of Non-Selfish Motives on Competition, Cooperation and Incentives

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Social Science Electronic Publishing

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  147. Measuring Social Norms and Preferences Using Experimental Games: A Guide for Social Scientists

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Social Science Electronic Publishing

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  148. Do High Stakes and Competition Undermine Fairness? Evidence from Russia

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Social Science Electronic Publishing

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  149. Do Workers Work More if Wages are High? Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Social Science Electronic Publishing

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  150. The Hidden Costs and Returns of Incentives - Trust and Trustworthiness among CEOs

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Social Science Electronic Publishing

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  151. Is Strong Reciprocity a Maladaptation? On the Evolutionary Foundations of Human Altruism

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Social Science Electronic Publishing

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  152. A Simple Mechanism for the Efficient Provision of Public Goods - Experimental Evidence

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Social Science Electronic Publishing

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  153. Use and Abuse of Authority: A Behavioral Foundation of the Employment Relation

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Social Science Electronic Publishing

    Professor Ernst Fehr

  154. The Effect of Neuropeptides on Human Trust and Altruism: A Neuroeconomic Perspective

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ernst Fehr