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guilt aversion and reciprocity under which contributions are related to second- and first-order beliefs, respectively. Our …
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reciprocity under which contributions are related to second- and first-order beliefs, respectively. Our results are consistent …
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We introduce intention-based social preferences into a Bayesian mechanism design framework. We first show that, under common knowledge of social preferences, any tension between material efficiency, incentive compatibility, and voluntary participation can be resolved. Hence, famous impossibility...
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information on reciprocity types, implementability of an incentive-compatible social choice function is guaranteed if it satises … an additional insurance property. By contrast, precise information on reciprocity types may imply that all ecient social … agents have private information about their material payo types and their reciprocity types. We also provide a systematic …
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player has higher material payoffs, so that reciprocity does not increase equity: For sufficiently strong reciprocity …
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We introduce intention-based social preferences into a mechanism design framework with independent private values and quasilinear payoffs. For the case where the designer has no information about the intensity of social preferences, we provide conditions under which mechanisms which have been...
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A controversy has been simmering in law for at least 30 years about whether pro bono work should be mandatory for lawyers, who now donate 1-3% of their time to the poor. This has centered on the unmet legal needs of the poor, the duty of lawyers, and the contrast with US doctors, who are...
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Games that appear to be independent, involving none of the same players, may be related by emotions of reciprocity … Kirchsteiger's model of sequential reciprocity (Games Econ Behav 47(2):268-298, 2004) to groups of individuals and define a new … 'sequential group reciprocity equilibrium' for which we prove its existence. We study the case of two games with two players in …
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We test the empirical content of the assumption of preference dependent beliefs using a behavioral model of strategic decision making in which the rankings of individuals over final outcomes in simple games influence their beliefs over the opponent's behavior. This approach- by analogy with...
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We consider a single psychological agent whose utility depends on his action, the state of the world, and the belief that he holds about that state. The agent is initially informed about the state and decides whether to memorize it, otherwise he has no recall. We model the memorization process...
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