Abbink, Klaus; Masclet, David; Veelen, Matthijs van - School of Economics, University of East Anglia - 2009
We study antisocial preferences in simple money-burning tasks. A decision maker can choose whether or not to reduce another person's payoff at an own cost. We vary across tasks the initial endowment of the decider and the victim. We find that most conventional expectations are refuted: Subjects...