Publications
Working papers
Gerald Eisenkopf and Urs Fischbacher
Doing well by doing good - or doing better by delegating?, TWI Research Paper Series 63, Thurgau Institute of Economics, 2011 (Download).
Urs Fischbacher and Lisa Bruttel
Taking the initiative. What motivates leaders?, TWI Research Paper Series 61, Thurgau Institute of Economics, 2010 (Download).
Urs Fischbacher and Simeon Schudy
Reciprocity and Resistance to Comprehensive Reform, TWI Research Paper Series 51, Thurgau Institute of Economics, 2010 (Download).
Urs Fischbacher and Simeon Schudy
Agenda Setting and Reciprocal Vote Trading, TWI Research Paper Series 58, Thurgau Institute of Economics, 2010 (Download).
Gerald Eisenkopf, Urs Fischbacher and Franziska Föllmi-Heusi
Unequal Opportunities and Distributive Justice, TWI Research Paper Series 57, Thurgau Institute of Economics, 2010 (Download).
Urs Fischbacher and Verena Utikal
On the acceptance of apologies, TWI Research Paper Series 53, Thurgau Institute of Economics, 2010 (Download).
Urs Fischbacher and Verena Utikal
On the attribution of externalities, TWI Research Paper Series 46, Thurgau Institute of Economics, 2009 (Download).
Urs Fischbacher and Franziska Heusi
Lies in Disguise – An experimental study on cheating, TWI Research Paper Series 40, Thurgau Institute of Economics, 2008 (Download).
Publications and forthcoming papers
forthcoming
Urs Fischbacher, Simon Gächter and Simone Quercia
Helping and Quiet Hours: Interruption-Free Time Spans Can Harm Performance, forthcoming Journal of Economic Psychology.
Philipp A.W. Käser, Urs Fischbacher, Cornelius J. König
The Behavioral Validity of the Strategy Method in Public Good Experiments, forthcoming Applied Psychology: An International Review.
Falk, Armin, Urs Fischbacher and Simon Gächter
Living in Two Neighborhoods – Social Interactions Effects in the Lab, forthcoming Economic Inquiry.
2012
Björn Bartling and Urs Fischbacher
Shifting the Blame: On Delegation and Responsibility, Review of Economic Studies 79(1), 67-87.
2010
Urs Fischbacher and Simon Gächter, 2010
Social Preferences, Beliefs, and the Dynamics of Free Riding in Public Goods, American Economic Review, 100(1), 541-556.
2009
Thomas Baumgartner, Urs Fischbacher, Anja Feierabend, Kai Lutz, and Ernst Fehr, 2009
The Neural Circuitry of a Broken Promise, Neuron, 64(5), 756-770.
Dirk Engelmann and Urs Fischbacher, 2009
Indirect Reciprocity and Strategic Reputation Building in an Experimental Helping Game, Games and Economic Behavior, 67(2), 399-407.
Urs Fischbacher, Christina M. Fong and Ernst Fehr, 2009
Fairness, Errors and the Power of Competition, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 72(1), 527-45.
2008
Knoch, Daria, Michael A. Nitsche, Urs Fischbacher, Christoph Eisenegger, Alvaro Pascual-Leone, and Ernst Fehr, 2008
Studying the Neurobiology of Social Interaction with Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation—The Example of Punishing Unfairness, Cerebral Cortex, 18, 1987-1990.
Thomas Baumgartner, Markus Heinrichs, Aline Vonlanthen, Urs Fischbacher, and Ernst Fehr, 2008
Oxytocin Shapes the Neural Circuitry of Trust and Trust Adaptation in Humans, Neuron, 58(4), 639 – 650.
Fischbacher, Urs and Christian Thöni, 2008
Inefficient Excess Entry in an Experimental Winner-Take-All Market, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 67(1), July 2008, 150-163.
Armin Falk, Ernst Fehr and Urs Fischbacher, 2008
Testing Theories of Fairness—Intentions matter, Games and Economic Behavior, 62 (1), 287-303 (Download).
2007
Manfred Spitzer, Urs Fischbacher, Bärbel Herrnberger, Georg Grön and Ernst Fehr, 2007
The Neural Signature of Social Norm Compliance, Neuron, 56, 04 October 2007, 185-196.
Fischbacher, Urs, 2007
z-Tree: Zurich Toolbox for Ready-made Economic experiments, Experimental Economics, 10(2), 171-178 (Download).
Fischbacher, Urs and Ulrike Stefani, 2007
Strategic Errors and Audit Quality – An Experimental Investigation, Accounting Review, 82(3), 679-704.
2006
Bernhard, Helen, Urs Fischbacher and Ernst Fehr, 2006
Parochial altruism in humans, Nature, 442, 24 August 2006, 912-915.
Falk, Armin, and Urs Fischbacher, 2006
A Theory of Reciprocity, Games and Economic Behavior, 54(2), 293-315 (Download).
2005
Falk, Armin, Ernst Fehr, and Urs Fischbacher, 2005
Driving Forces behind Informal Sanctions, Econometrica, 73(6), 2017-2030 (Download).
Fehr, Ernst, Urs Fischbacher and Michael Kosfeld, 2005
Neuroeconomic Foundations of Trust and Social Preferences: Initial Evidence, American Economic Review, 95(2), 346-351.
Fehr, Ernst and Urs Fischbacher, 2005
Altruists with Green Beards, Analyse & Kritik, 27(1), 73-84.
Fehr, Ernst and Urs Fischbacher, 2005
Human Altruism. Proximate Patterns and Evolutionary Origins, Analyse & Kritik, 27(1), 6–47.
Kosfeld, Michael, Markus Heinrichs, Paul Zak, Urs Fischbacher and Ernst Fehr, 2005
Oxytocin increases Trust in Humans, Nature, 435, 2 June 2005, 673-676.
2004
de Quervain, Dominique J.-F., Urs Fischbacher, Valerie Treyer, Melanie Schellhammer, Ulrich Schnyder, Alfred Buck, and Ernst Fehr, 2004
The Neural Basis of Altruistic Punishment, Science, 305, 27 August 2004, 1254-1258 (Download).
Fehr, Ernst and Urs Fischbacher, 2004
Third Party Punishment and Social Norms, Evolution and Human Behavior, 25, 63–87 (Download).
Fehr, Ernst and Urs Fischbacher, 2004
Social norms and human cooperation, Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 8(4), April 2004, 185-190.
2003
Fehr, Ernst and Urs Fischbacher, 2003
The Nature of Human Altruism, Nature, 425, 23 October 2003, 785-791 (Download).
Falk, Armin, Ernst Fehr, and Urs Fischbacher, 2003
Reasons for Conflict: Lessons from Bargaining Experiments, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 159(1), 171-187.
Falk, Armin, Ernst Fehr and Urs Fischbacher, 2003
On the Nature of Fair Behavior, Economic Inquiry, 41(1), 20-26 (Download).
2002
Fehr, Ernst, Urs Fischbacher, Bernhard von Rosenbladt, Jürgen Schupp and Gert G. Wagner, 2002
A Nation-Wide Laboratory - Examining trust and trustworthiness by integrating behavioral experiments into representative surveys, Schmollers Jahrbuch, 122(4), 519-542 (Download).
Falk, Armin and Urs Fischbacher, 2002
"Crime" in the Lab - Detecting Social Interaction, European Economic Review, 46, 859-869.
Fehr, Ernst, Urs Fischbacher and Simon Gächter, 2002
Strong Reciprocity, Human Cooperation, and the Enforcement of Social Norms, Human Nature, 13(1), 1-25.
Fehr, Ernst and Urs Fischbacher, 2002
Why Social Preferences Matter - The Impact of Nonselfish Motives on Competition, Cooperation, and Incentives, Economic Journal, 112, C1-C33.
2001
Fischbacher, Urs, Simon Gächter and Ernst Fehr, 2001
Are People Conditionally Cooperative? Evidence from a Public Goods Experiment, Economics Letters, 71, 397-404 (Download).
Contributions to books
2005
Fehr, Ernst and Urs Fischbacher
The Economics of Strong Reciprocity, in: Moral Sentiments and Material Interest, The Foundations of Cooperation in Economic Life, ed. by Herbert Gintis, Samuel Bowles, Robert Boyd and Ernst Fehr, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2005, 151-192.
Falk, Armin and Urs Fischbacher
Modeling Strong Reciprocity, in: Moral Sentiments and Material Interest, The Foundations of Cooperation in Economic Life, ed. by Herbert Gintis, Samuel Bowles, Robert Boyd and Ernst Fehr, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2005, 193-214.
2002
Falk, Armin, Ernst Fehr, and Urs Fischbacher
Appropriating the Commons - A Theoretical Explanation, in: The Drama of the Commons, ed. by Thomas Dietz, Nives Dolšak, Elinor Ostrom, Paul Stern, Susan Stonich, and Elke Weber, National Academy Press, Washington, DC, 2002, 157-192.
Falk, Armin and Urs Fischbacher
The Economics of Reciprocity - Theory and Evidence, in: Inequality Around the World, ed. by Richard Freeman, New York: Palgrave, in association with the IEA, 2002, 207-233.
