The hidden costs of control

By Armin Falk, Michael Kosfeld. 2006

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Subfields: Demography, Safety Research, Sociology and Political Science

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Crowdfunding: An Industrial Organization Perspective (2010, background): “Note that assumptions (8) and (11) define an open interval as long as (b+ 1) / (2γ) > τ/2, which is equivalent to τγ < b+ 1.”
A controlled field experiment on corruption (2011, background): “While some experiments suggest that monitoring may be e¤ective (e.g. Falk and Kosfeld 2006), its undermining e¤ect can sometimes outweigh its disciplining e¤ect (Gneezy and Rustichini 2000, Schulze and Frank 2003).”
Economic Perspectives on Corporate Social Responsibility (2012, neutral): “[15] Benabou R.”
An Experimental Investigation of the Interactions among Intentions, Reciprocity, and Control (2013, methodology): “This notion is supported by average employee transfer in Falk and Kosfeld 2006 ranging from 15% to 19%.”
The Biology of Trust: Integrating Evidence From Genetics, Endocrinology, and Functional Brain Imaging (2012, background): “…economic collaborations, medicine, and politics, to the steadily increasing number of human interactions in anonymous virtual Internet environments (Falk & Kosfeld, 2006; Füllbrunn, Richwien, & Sadrieh, 2011; Gefen, Benbasat, & Pavlou, 2008; Lee & Lin, 2009; Luhmann, 1979; Nguyen et al., 2009;…”
Other Regarding Preferences: A Selective Survey of Experimental Results (2012, background): “Falk and Kosfeld (2006) experimentally investigate the hidden costs of control in a one-shot principal-agent game.”
On the Economics and Biology of Trust (2009, background): “…2004) and the more recent papers on the counterproductive effects of sanctions and other measures that constrain agents’ shirking (Bohnet, Frey, and Huck 2001; Fehr and Falk 2002; Fehr and List 2004; Falk and Kosfeld 2006) suggest that beliefs about others’ trustworthiness may be self-reinforcing.”
Economic incentives and social preferences: substitutes or complements? (2012, background): “38 an extension of the “control aversion” experiment of Falk and Kosfeld (2006) described in section 5.”
Payments for ecosystem services: From local to global (2010, background): “Other studies show that monitoring (which is obviously essential for conditionality) may reduce motivation and performance (Falk and Kosfeld, 2006).”