His 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 the Journal of Behavior and Organization, and the Journal of Economic Psychology.

1. "Social Preferences, Beliefs, and the Dynamics of Free Riding in Public Good Experiments", forthcoming in American Economic Review (with Urs Fischbacher).

2. "Reciprocity, culture, and human cooperation: Previous insights and a new cross-cultural experiment." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B - Biological Sciences 364, March 2009, 791-806 (with Benedikt Herrmann). (pdf)

3. “The Long-Run Benefits of Punishment” Science 322, 5 December 2008, 1510 (with Elke Renner and Martin Sefton) [abstract] [paper] [supplementary material]

4. "Antisocial Punishment Across Societies" Science 319, 7 March 2008, 1362-1367 (with Benedikt Herrmann and Christian Thöni). [further information].

5. "Dividing Justly in Bargaining Problems with Claims: Normative Judgments and Actual Negotiations", Social Choice and Welfare 27, December 2006, 571-594 (with Arno Riedl) (pdf).

6. Social Learning and Voluntary Cooperation among Like-Minded People", Journal of the European Economic Association 3(2-3), 2005, 303-314 (with Christian Thöni). (pdf)

7. "Moral Property Rights in Bargaining with Infeasible Claims", Management Science 51(2), 2005, 249-263 (with Arno Riedl). (Instructions to this experiment are available here)

8. "Trust, voluntary cooperation, and socio-economic background: Survey and experimental evidence", Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 55(4), 2004, 505-531 (with Benedikt Herrmann and Christian Thöni).(pdf)

9. "Altruistic punishment in humans." Nature 415, 10 January 2002, 137-140 (with Ernst Fehr) (pdf)

10. "Are people conditionally cooperative? Evidence from a public goods experiment", Economics Letters 71, 2001, 397-404 (with E. Fehr and U. Fischbacher)

11. "Cooperation and Punishment in Public Goods Experiments", American Economic Review 90(4), September 2000, 980-994 (with Ernst Fehr). (A longer version that also contains the experimental instructions can be downloaded here: iewwp010.pdf).

12. "A simple mechanism for the efficient provision of public goods - Experimental Evidence", American Economic Review 90(1), March 2000, 247-264 (with Josef Falkinger, Ernst Fehr, and Rudolf Winter-Ebmer). The experimental instructions of this experiment are available here: Experimental Instructions of Falkinger, Fehr, Gaechter and Winter-Ebmer (2000).
    

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