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dc.contributor.author | Fehr, Ernst | en |
dc.contributor.author | Falk, Armin | en |
dc.date.accessioned | 2009-01-28T16:22:22Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2009-01-28T16:22:22Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2002 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10419/21434 | - |
dc.description.abstract | During the last two decades economists have made much progress in understandingincentives, 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 human motivation may severely limit understanding the determinants and effects of incentives. Economists may fail to understand the levels and the changes inbehaviour if they neglect motives like the desire to reciprocate or the desire to avoid social disapproval. We show that monetary incentives may backfire and reduce the performance of agents or their compliance with rules. In addition, these motives may generate very powerful incentives themselves. | en |
dc.language.iso | eng | en |
dc.publisher | |aInstitute for the Study of Labor (IZA) |cBonn | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | |aIZA Discussion Papers |x507 | en |
dc.subject.jel | D64 | en |
dc.subject.jel | C91 | en |
dc.subject.jel | J41 | en |
dc.subject.ddc | 330 | en |
dc.subject.keyword | incentives | en |
dc.subject.keyword | contracts | en |
dc.subject.keyword | reciprocity | en |
dc.subject.keyword | social approval | en |
dc.subject.keyword | social norms | en |
dc.subject.keyword | intrinsic motivation | en |
dc.subject.stw | Leistungsmotivation | en |
dc.subject.stw | Wirtschaftspsychologie | en |
dc.subject.stw | Verhaltensökonomik | en |
dc.subject.stw | Theorie | en |
dc.subject.stw | Intrinsische Motivation | en |
dc.title | Psychological Foundations of Incentives | - |
dc.type | Working Paper | en |
dc.identifier.ppn | 845578618 | en |
dc.rights | http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen | en |
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