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In many cultures and industries gifts are given in order to influence the recipient, often at the expense of a third party. Examples include business gifts of firms and lobbyists. In a series of experiments, we show that, even without incentive or informational effects, small gifts strongly...
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We examine in detail the circumstances under which reciprocity, as defined in Bagwell and Staiger (1999), leads to … fixed world prices. We show that a change of tariffs satisfying reciprocity does not necessarily imply constant world prices … reciprocity and constant world prices, these reforms do not follow from the reciprocity condition, but rather from the requirement …
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We conduct a field experiment where we vary both the presence of a gift exchange wage and the effect of the worker’s effort on the manager’s payoff. The results indicate a strong complementarity between the initial wage gift and the agent’s ability to “repay the gift”. We collect...
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By incorporating reciprocity in an otherwise standard principal-agent model, I investigate the relation between …
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of reciprocity and repeated game incentives in two treatments (one-shot and repeated) of a gift-exchange game. In both … treatments we observe reciprocity, which is strengthened in the repeated game. A detailed analysis shows that in the repeated … game some subjects imitate reciprocity. Thus, reciprocity and repeated game incentives reinforce each other. Observed …
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This paper presents a formal theory of reciprocity. Reciprocity means that people reward kind actions and punish unkind …
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We report on several experiments on the optimal allocation of ownership rights. The experiments confirm the property rights approach by showing that the ownership structure affects relationship-specific investments and that subjects attain the most efficient ownership allocation despite starting...
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organizational structure impacts the effectiveness of reciprocity and to derive specific empirical predictions. We use the UK …
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Although reciprocity is a key concept in the social sciences, it is still unclear why people engage in costly …-reported anger highlights the importance of using both techniques for studying reciprocity. …
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An important aspect in determining the effectiveness of gift exchange relations in labor markets is the ability of the worker to “repay the gift” to the employer. To test this hypothesis, we conduct a real effort laboratory experiment where we vary the wage and the effect of the worker’s...
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