Simon Gaechter

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Biography

Simon joined the University of Nottingham in February 2005. He is Professor of the Psychology of Economic Decision Making. He received his doctorate in Economics in Vienna. Before coming to Nottingham he worked at the Universities of Vienna, Linz, Zurich, and St. Gallen. He is also affiliated with the CESifo network (Munich), the Institute for the Study of Labour (IZA Bonn), and the MacArthur Research Network on Norms and Preferences.

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Research Summary

Simon's research interests are in the area of behavioural and experimental economics, organisational economics, labour economics, and game theory. His main research tools are experiments. Currently,… read more

Selected Publications

• DUFWENBERG, MARTIN, GAECHTER, SIMON and HENNIG-SCHMIDT, HEIKE, 2011. The Framing of Games and the Psychology of Play Games and Economic Behavior. 73(2), 459-478
• FISCHBACHER, URS and GAECHTER, SIMON, 2010. Social Preferences, Beliefs, and the Dynamics of Free Riding in Public Good Experiments American Economic Review. 100(1), 541-556
• GAECHTER. SIMON, HERRMANN, BENEDIKT and THOENI, CHRISTIAN, 2010. Culture and Cooperation Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B – Biological Sciences. 365(1553), 2651-2661
• GAECHTER, SIMON, RENNER, ELKE, SEFTON, MARTIN, 2008. The Long-Run Benefits of Punishment Science. 322(5907), 1510

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Current Research

Simon's research interests are in the area of behavioural and experimental economics, organisational economics, labour economics, and game theory. His main research tools are experiments. Currently, his main research interests are on voluntary cooperation in the presence of free rider incentives, and on the interplay of material and psychological incentives in incentive provision. He has published in American Economic Review, Econometrica, Science, Nature, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Journal of Labor Economics, Journal of the European Economic Association, and Management Science. He is also an associate editor of Management Science, the Journal of Behavior and Organization, and the Journal of Economic Psychology.

• SIMON GAECHTER, DANIELE NOSENZO and MARTIN SEFTON, 2012. Peer Effects in Pro-Social Behavior: Social Norms or Social Preferences? Journal of the European Economic Association.
• SIMON GAECHTER, 2012. "In the lab and the field: punishment is rare in equilibrium". Comment on Francesco Guala: Reciprocity: Weak or Strong? What Punishment Experiments Do (and Do Not) Demonstrate Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 35(1), 26-28
• ROBIN P. CUBITT, MICHALIS DROUVELIS AND SIMON GAECHTER, 2011. Framing and free riding: emotional responses and punishment in social dilemma games Experimental Economics. 14, 254-72
• ROBIN P. CUBITT, MICHALIS DROUVELIS, SIMON GAECHTER and RUSLAN KABALIN, 2011. Moral judgments in social dilemmas: How bad is free riding? Journal of Public Economics. 95, 253-264
• GAECHTER, SIMON, NOSENZO, DANIELE and SEFTON, MARTIN, 2011. The Impact of Social Comparisons on Reciprocity Scandinavian Journal of Economics. in press
• GAECHTER. SIMON and HERRMANN, BENEDIKT, 2011. The limits of self-governance when cooperators get punished: Experimental evidence from urban and rural Russia European Economic Review. 55(2), 193-210
• DUFWENBERG, MARTIN, GAECHTER, SIMON and HENNIG-SCHMIDT, HEIKE, 2011. The Framing of Games and the Psychology of Play Games and Economic Behavior. 73(2), 459-478
• GAECHTER , SIMON and THOENI, CHRISTIAN, 2011. Micromotives, Microstructure and Macrobehavior: The Case of Voluntary Cooperation Journal of Mathematical Sociology. 35(1), 26-65
• GAECHTER, S, NOSENZO, D and RENNER, E. AND SEFTON, M., 2010. Who Makes a Good Leader? Cooperativeness, Optimism and Leading-by-Example <b>Economic Inquiry</b>.
• GAECHTER, S, NOSENZO, D and RENNER, E. AND SEFTON, M., 2010. Sequential versus simultaneous contributions to public goods: Experimental evidence <b>Journal of Public Economics</b>. 94, 515-522
• GAECHTER,SIMON and THOENI, SIMON, 2010. Social Comparison and Performance: Experimental Evidence on the Fair-Wage Effort Hypothesis Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. 76(3), 531-543
• CROSON, RACHEL and GAECHTER, SIMON, 2010. The Science of Experimental Economics Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. 73(1), 122-131
• GAECHTER, SIMON, 2010. (Dis)advantages of student subjects: What is your research question?" Comment on Henrich et al. The Weirdest People in the World Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 33(2-3), 92-93
• GAECHTER. SIMON, HERRMANN, BENEDIKT and THOENI, CHRISTIAN, 2010. Culture and Cooperation Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B – Biological Sciences. 365(1553), 2651-2661
• GAECHTER, SIMON and RENNER, ELKE, 2010. The effects of (incentivized) belief elicitation in public good experiments Experimental Economics. 13(3), 364-377
• FALK, ARMIN, FISCHBACHER URS, GAECHTER SIMON, 2010. Living in two neighborhoods - social interactions in the lab Economic Inquiry.
• FISCHBACHER, URS and GAECHTER, SIMON, 2010. Social Preferences, Beliefs, and the Dynamics of Free Riding in Public Good Experiments American Economic Review. 100(1), 541-556
• GAECHTER, SIMON, HAEFLIGER , STEFAN and GEORG VON KROGH, 2010. Initiating private-collective innovation: the fragility of knowledge sharing Research Policy. 39(7), 893-906
• GAECHTER, SIMON, ORZEN, HENRIK, RENNER, ELKE and STARMER, CHRIS, 2009. Are Experimental Economists Prone to Framing Effects? A Natural Field Experiment Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. 70(3), 443-446
• GAECHTER, SIMON, 2009. Vorwort des Gastherausgebers: Experimentelle Ökonomie: Neue Wege, neue Erkenntnisse? Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik. 10, 1-13
• GAECHTER, SIMON and HERRMANN, BENEDIKT, 2009. Reciprocity, culture, and human cooperation: Previous insights and a new cross-cultural experiment Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B - Biological Sciences. 364, 791-806
• GAECHTER, SIMON and KOENIGSTEIN, MANFRED, 2009. Design a Contract! A Simple Principal-Agent Problem as a Classroom Experiment Journal of Economic Education. 40(2), 173-187
• GAECHTER, SIMON, RENNER, ELKE, SEFTON, MARTIN, 2008. The Long-Run Benefits of Punishment Science. 322(5907), 1510
• HERRMANN, BENEDIKT, THOENI, CHRISTIAN and GAECHTER, SIMON, 2008. Antisocial punishment across societies. Science. 319(5868), 1362-7
• GAECHTER, SIMON and RIEDL, ARNO, 2006. Dividing Justly in Bargaining Problems with Claims: Normative Judgments and Actual Negotiations Social Choice and Welfare. 27(3), 571-594
• GÄCHTER, S. and THÖNI, C., 2005. Social learning and voluntary cooperation among like-minded people Journal of the European Economic Association. 3(2-3), 303-314
• GAECHTER, SIMON, HERRMANN, BENEDIKT and THOENI, CHRISTIAN., 2005. Cross-cultural differences in norm enforcement Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 28(6), 822
• GÄCHTER, S. and RIEDL, A., 2005. Moral property rights in bargaining with infeasible claims Management Science. 51(2), 249-263
• GÄCHTER, S., HERRMANN, B. and THÖNI, C., 2004. Trust, voluntary cooperation, and, socio-economic background: survey and experimental evidence Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. 55(4), 505-531
• FEHR, E. and GÄCHTER, S., 2002. Altruistic punishment in humans Nature. 415(6868), 137-140
• FALK, ARMIN and GAECHTER, SIMON, 2002. Reputation and Reciprocity: Consequences for the Labour Relation Scandinavian Journal of Economics. 104, 1-27
• ANDERHUB, VITAL., KOENIGSTEIN, MANFRED and GAECHTER, SIMON, 2002. Efficient Contracting and Fair Sharing in a Principal-Agent Experiment Experimental Economics. 5, 5-25
• FEHR, ERNST, FISCHBACHER, URS and GAECHTER, SIMON, 2002. Strong reciprocity, human cooperation, and the enforcement of social norms Human Nature. 13, 1-25
• FEHR, E., FISCHBACHER, U. and GÄCHTER, S., 2001. Are people conditionally cooperative?: evidence from a public goods experiment Economics Letters. 71(3), 397-404
• FALKINGER, JOSEF, FEHR, ERNST, GAECHTER, SIMON and WINTER-EBMER, RUDOLF, 2000. A simple mechanism for the efficient provision of public goods - Experimental evidence American Economic Review. 90, 247-264
• FEHR, ERNST and GAECHTER, SIMON, 2000. Cooperation and Punishment in Public Goods Experiments American Economic Review. 90, 341-369
• FEHR, ERNST and GAECHTER, SIMON, 2000. Fairness and Retaliation: The Economics of Reciprocity Journal of Economic Perspectives. 14, 159-181
• FEHR, ERNST and GAECHTER, SIMON, 1999. Collective Action as a Social Exchange Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. 39, 341-369
• FALK, ARMIN, GAECHTER, SIMON and KOVACS, JUDIT, 1999. Intrinsic Motivation and Extrinsic Incentives in a Repeated Game with Incomplete Contracts Journal of Economic Psychology. 251-284
• FEHR, ERNST and GAECHTER, SIMON, 1998. Reciprocity and Economics. The Economic Implications of Homo Reciprocan European Economic Review. 42, 845-859
• FEHR, ERNST, KIRCHLER, ERICH, WEICHBOLD, ANDREAS and GAECHTER, SIMON, 1998. When Social Norms Overpower Competition - Gift Exchange in Experimental Labor Markets Journal of Labor Economics. 16, 324-351
• FEHR, ERNST, GAECHTER, SIMON and KIRCHSTEIGER, GEORG, 1997. Reciprocity as a Contract Enforcement Device: Experimental Evidence Econometrica. 65(4), 833-860
• FEHR, ERNST, GAECHTER, SIMON and KIRCHSTEIGER, GEORG, 1996. Reciprocal Fairness and Noncompensating Wage Differentials Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics. 152(4), 608-640