Björn Bartling

Working Papers

"The Complementarity Between Trust and Contract Enforcement," October 2024, with Ernst Fehr, David Huffman and Nick Netzer, revise and resubmit at: Economic Journal

"Free to Fail? Paternalistic Preferences in the United States," September 2024, with Alexander W. Cappelen, Henning Hermes, Marit Skivenes and Bertil Tungodden

"Fairness in Winner-Take-All Competitions," August 2024, with Alexander Cappelen, Mathias Ekström, Erik Sørensen and Bertil Tungodden

"The Causal Effect of Income on Market Social Responsibility," August 2024, with Vanessa Valero and Roberto Weber, revise and resubmit at: Economic Journal

"Paternalism Accross the World," with Alexander Cappelen, Henning Hermes, Akshai Moorthy, Marit Skivenes and Bertil Tungodden

"Paternalistic Interventions: Determinants of Demand and Supply," with Krishna Srinivasan

"Are Advisers Paternalistic? The Case of Financial Planners," with Sandro Ambühl, Gonzalo Arrieta and Doug Bernheim

"The Talent Paradox: Why is it fair to reward talent but not luck?," with Alexander Cappelen, Ingvild Skarpeid, Erik Sørensen and Bertil Tungodden

"Public Discourse and Socially Responsible Market Behavior," American Economic Review, 2024, Vol. 114(10): 3041-74, with Vanessa Valero, Roberto Weber and Yan Lao

"Does Market Interaction Erode Moral Values?" Review of Economics and Statistics, 2023, Vol. 105(1): 226-35, with Ernst Fehr and Yagiz Özdemir

"An Externality Robust Auction: Theory and Experimental Evidence," Games and Economic Behavior, 2016, Vol. 97: 186-204, with Nick Netzer

"Do Markets Erode Social Responsibility?," Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2015, Vol. 130(1): 219-66, with Roberto Weber and Lan Yao

"Reference Points, Social Norms, and Fairness in Contract Renegotiations," Journal of the European Economic Association, 2015, Vol. 13(1): 98-129, with Klaus Schmidt

"The Intrinsic Value of Decision Rights," Econometrica, 2014, Vol. 82(6): 2005-39, with Ernst Fehr and Holger Herz

"Use and Abuse of Authority: A Behavioral Foundation of the Employment Relation," Journal of the European Economic Association, 2013, Vol. 11(4): 711-742, with Ernst Fehr and Klaus Schmidt

"Screening, Competition, and Job Design: Economic Origins of Good Jobs," American Economic Review, 2012, Vol. 102(2): 834-864, with Ernst Fehr and Klaus Schmidt

"Shifting the Blame: On Delegation and Responsibility," Review of Economic Studies, 2012, Vol. 79(1): 67-87, with Urs Fischbacher