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Bargaining with charitable promises : true preferences and strategic behavior

Lange, Andreas; Schwirplies, Claudia - 2021

We report experimental ﬁndings on the role of charitable promises in bargaining settings. We vary the enforceability of such promises within variants of ultimatum games where the proposer suggest a split between himself, the responder and a char-itable donation. By reneging on initial pledges,...

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Ashamed to be selfish

Dillenberger, David; Sadowski, Philipp - In: Theoretical economics : TE ; an open access journal in … 7 (2012) 1, pp. 99-124

We study a decision maker (DM) who has preferences over choice problems, which are sets of payoff-allocations between herself and a passive recipient. An example of such a set is the collection of possible allocations in the classic dictator game. The choice of an allocation from the set is...

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Ashamed to be Selfish

Dillenberger, David; Sadowski, Philipp - 2009

fairness and shame. Altruism is the most prominent motive that can explain non-selfish choice. We identify a condition under … which shame to be selfish can mimic altruism, when only stage-two choice is observed by the experimenter. An additional …

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Bargaining with Altruism

Pollak, Robert A. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Despite extensive use of bargaining models in economics and despite Becker's insistence on the importance of altruism … in families, the theoretical literature on bargaining ignores altruism and assumes that everyone is an egoist. This paper … shows that incorporating altruism into cooperative bargaining models shrinks the set potential cooperative bargaining …

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Ashamed to Be Selfish

Sadowski, Philipp; Dillenberger, David - 2010

We study a decision maker (DM) who has preferences over sets of payoff-allocations between herself and a passive recipient, which represent second-stage choice problems. The recipient is only aware of second-stage choice of an allocation. Not choosing the normatively best allocation in the...

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Ashamed to Be Selfish, Second Version

Dillenberger, David; Sadowski, Philipp - 2009

norm of fairness and shame. It has been suggested that altruism is a prominent motive for non-selfish choice. We identify a … condition under which shame to be selfish can mimic altruism, when the experimenter only records the second stage choice. An …

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Making the world a better place : experimental evidence from the generosity game

Güth, Werner; Levati, M. Vittoria; Ploner, Matteo - 2009

We study ultimatum and dictator experiments where the first mover chooses the amount of money to be distributed between the players within a given interval, knowing that her own share is fixed. Thus, the first mover is faced with scarcity, but not with the typical trade-off between her own and...