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important in many interactions, we study a theoretical model on reciprocity where a player's altruism depends on her perception … empirically in a large scale online experiment and in the laboratory. In both experiments, the second mover's lying propensity … evidence that reciprocity does not play a role for lying behavior in our setting. …
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We analyze communication about the social returns to investment in a public good. We model two agents who have private information about these returns as well as their own taste for cooperation, or social preferences. Before deciding to contribute or not, each agent submits an unverifiable...
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-binding price requests. Using a laboratory experiment, we examine how competition moderates the way such cheap-talk communication …
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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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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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The present book adds to the broad field of investigations concerning what affects and determines human cooperation. It provides new insights into internal and external factors that influence such decisions. Rather than presenting a closed and universal examination, this book should be seen as...
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second half of the paper tests the theoretical predictions in an experiment. In contrast to previous literature, the …
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; Reciprocity ; Revelation Principle …
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