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This paper reports the results of experiments designed to isolate the impact of various combinations of the following motives on trustworthiness: (i) unconditional other-regarding preferences - like altruism, inequality aversion, quasi-maximin, etc.; (ii) deal-responsiveness - reacting to...
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For the trust game, recent models of belief-dependent motivations make opposite predictions regarding the correlation between back-transfers and second- order beliefs of the trustor: While reciprocity models predict a negative correlation, guilt-aversion models predict a positive one. This paper...
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Social preferences have been shown to be an important determinant of economic decision making for many adults. We present a large-scale experiment with 883 children and adolescents, aged eight to seventeen years. Participants make decisions in eight simple, one-shot allocation tasks, allowing us...
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We study the intrapersonal relationship between trust and reciprocity in a laboratory experiment. Reciprocal subjects trust significantly more than selfish ones. This finding raises questions about theories of social preferences which predict that "fairer" players should trust less
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Social preferences have been shown to be an important determinant of economic decision making for many adults. We present a large-scale experiment with 883 children and adolescents, aged eight to seventeen years. Participants make decisions in eight simple, one-shot allocation tasks, allowing us...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141434
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information they process, and they are compared in terms of efficiency and perceived allocative and procedural fairness. …
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Offer and the Exit variant - in terms of fairness and efficiency. To assess the fairness of the allocations obtained by … elicited in a hypothetical fairness question, and we evaluate them from an impartial point of view using spectators' responses …
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We experimentally investigate multiple notions of equity in ultimatum bargaining with asymmetric outside options …. Building on the generalized equity principle formulated by Selten (1978), we derive three different equity rules that can … explain 43% of all offers. Our within-subject design further allows us to show that proposers use different equity rules and …
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redistribution. We present results from a large-scale online experiment with more than 4,000 participants. The experiment features a …
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