Theme 1 - Self Regarding Incentives
First, we investigate how incentives influence strong reciprocity: Under which conditions do incentives undermine or enhance strong reciprocity and thereby cooperation?
Publications:
- Brice Corgnet, Roberto Hernán González, Gordon M. Sayre and Simon Gächter (2025) . Journal of Applied Psychology 2025. []
- Simon Gächter, Esther Kaiser and Manfred Königstein (April 2025) Experimental Economics 2025:1-32. []
- Brice Corgnet, Simon Gächter, Roberto Hernán González (March 2025) Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization Volume 231, March 2025, 106902. [)
- Malte Baader, Simon Gächter, Kyeongtae Lee, and Martin Sefton (November 2024) Economic Theory 2024. []
- Simon Gaechter, Felix Koelle and Simone Quercia (September 2022). . Games and Economic Behavior 135, 338-355 []
- Ozan Isler, Simon Gächter, A. John Maule & Chris Starmer (July 2021). Scientific Reports 11, 13868 [].
- Molleman, Lucas, Felix Kölle, Chris Starmer, and Simon Gächter (November 2019). Nature Human Behaviour. 3, 1145–1153. [] []
- Gächter, Simon, Lingbo Huang, and Martin Sefton (July 2018). . Economic Inquiry 56(3), 1512-1525.
- Schulz, Jonathan, Petra Thiemann, and Christian Thöni (June 2018). . Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 74, 139-145.
- Gächter, Simon, Felix Kölle, and Simone Quercia (September 2017). . Nature Human Behaviour, 1(9), 650-656. [] [] [] []
- Gächter, Simon, Friederike Mengel, Elias Tsakas, and Alexander Vostroknutov (June 2017). . Journal of Public Economics, 150, 1-13. []
- Gächter, Simon, Lingbo Huang, and Martin Sefton (December 2016). . Experimental Economics, 19(4), 687-712. []
- Kölle, Felix, Dirk Sliwka, and Nannan Zhou (August 2015). . Social Choice and Welfare, 46(2), 263-268.
- Weisel, Ori and Shaul Shalvi (August 2015). . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 112(34), 10651-10656. []
- Hartig, Björn, Bernd Irlenbusch, and Felix Kölle (April 2015). . Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 55, 48-64.
- Kölle, Felix (January 2015). . Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 109, 120-134.
Works in Progress:
- Avrahami, Judith, Simon Gächter, Yaakov Kareev, and Ilana Ritov "Is There a Bystander Effect in Punishment of Free Riders in Social Dilemmas?"
- Eisenkopf, Gerald, Simon Gächter, and Natalia Montinari "Incentive Spillovers on Voluntary Cooperation"
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