Prof. Dr. Armin Falk Biographical Sketch 1998 Phd, University Of

Biographical Sketch

1998 PhD, University of Zurich 1998 - 2003 Assistant professor, University of Zurich 2003 - 2005 Lecturer, Central European University (Budapest) 2003 - today Research Director, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) 2003 - today Professor of Economics, University of Bonn

Affiliations with CESifo, CEPR

Research Interests

Labor Economics, Behavioral and experimental economics

Selected Journal Publications

“Fairness Perceptions and Reservation Wages - The Behavioral Effects of Minimum Wage Laws” (with Ernst Fehr and Christian Zehnder), Quarterly Journal of Economic, forthcoming.

“Distrust - The Hidden Cost of Control” (with Michael Kosfeld), American Economic Review, forthcoming.

“Clean Evidence on Peer Effects” (with Andrea Ichino), Journal of Labor Economics, forthcoming.

“A Theory of Reciprocity” (with Urs Fischbacher), Games and Economic Behavior 54 (2), 2006, 293-315.

“Driving Forces Behind Informal Sanctions” (with Ernst Fehr and Urs Fischbacher), Econometrica 73 (6), 2005, 2017-2030.

“The Success of Job Applications: A New Approach to Program Evaluation” (with Rafael Lalive and Josef Zweimüller), Labour Economics 12 (6), 2005, 739-748.

“Choosing the Joneses: Endogenous Goals and Reference Standards” (with Markus Knell), Scandinavian Journal of Economics 106 (3), 2004, 417-435.

“Relational Contracts and the Nature of Market Interactions” (with Martin Brown and Ernst Fehr), Econometrica 72, 2004, 747-780.

“On the Nature of Fair Behavior” (with Ernst Fehr and Urs Fischbacher), Economic Inquiry 41(1), 2003, 20-26.

“Reasons for Conflict - Lessons From Bargaining Experiments” (with Ernst Fehr and Urs Fischbacher), Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 159 (1), 2003, 171-187.

“Why Labour Market Experiments?” (with Ernst Fehr), Labour Economics 10, 2003, 399-406.

“Reputation and Reciprocity - Consequences for the Labour Relation” (with Simon Gächter), Scandinavian Journal of Economics 104, 2002, 1-26.

“Crime" in the Lab - Detecting Social Interaction” (with Urs Fischbacher), European Economic Review 46, 2002, 859-869.

“Psychological Foundations of Incentives” (with Ernst Fehr), European Economic Review 46, 2002, 687-724.

“Distributional Consequences and Intentions in a Model of Reciprocity” (with Urs Fischbacher), Annales d'Economie et de Statistique 63-64, 2001, 112-129.

“Wage Rigidities in a Competitive Incomplete Contract Market” (with Ernst Fehr), Journal of Political Economy 107, 1999, 106-134.

“Intrinsic Motivation and Extrinsic Incentives in a Repeated Game with Incomplete Contracts” (with Simon Gächter and Judit Kovacs), Journal of Economic Psychology 20, 1999, 351-284.