Unfair intentions provoke negative reciprocity from others, making their concealment potentially beneficial. This paper … explores whether people hide their unfair intentions from others and how hiding intentions is itself perceived in fairness … successful against the higher expected punishment when cover up is unsuccessful. In an attempt to better understand fairness …

inform the debate on the fairness of market outcomes by showing that the use of a competitive procedure can, by itself …

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

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 …

In this paper we show that a simple model of fairness preferences explains major experimental regularities of common …

We show that concerns for fairness may have dramatic consequences for the optimal provision of incentives in a moral … concerned about fairness. Conversely, contracts that are doomed to fail when there are only selfish actors provide powerful …