This Paper presents a formal theory of reciprocity. Reciprocity means that people reward kind actions and punish unkind …

and field experiments, surveys, and observational data, as well as neuroeconomic research, suggests that workers …' perceptions of fairness and trust are also key drivers of their work effort. Treating employees with respect is not only ethically …

Reciprocity is one of the main basic social relations that constitute societies. It consists of being favourable to … rationales: (1) balance (comparison, matching), often related to equality and fairness, or to the desire to avoid moral … fact proper reciprocity). Reciprocity extends to important cases of aids inducing aids that are not strictly reciprocal. It …

systematically refutes the self-interest hypothesis and suggests that many people are strongly motivated by concerns for fairness and … reciprocity. Moreover, several theoretical Papers have been written showing that the observed phenomena can be explained in a … insights into the nature of preferences and into the relative performance of competing theories of fairness. The purpose of …

Reciprocity is common in economic and social domains, and it has been widely documented in the laboratory. While … positive and negative reciprocity are observed in investment and ultimatum games, respectively, prior laboratory studies often … delays on reciprocity in the investment and ultimatum games. We manipulate the time delay after second movers have been …

behave reciprocally, but the degree of reciprocity is higher for lawyers. Surprisingly, it is not university education that …

with unkind actions (negative reciprocity), while at the same time, it responds to kind behavior of rivals with kind … actions (positive reciprocity). We find that collusion is easier to sustain when firms have a concern for reciprocity towards … competing firms provided that they consider collusive prices to be kind and punishment prices to be unkind. Thus, reciprocity …