We study the interaction between competition and social proximity on altruism, trust, and reciprocity. We decompose the …

This paper presents a formal theory of reciprocity. Reciprocity means that people reward kind actions and punish unkind … ones. The theory takes into account that people evaluate the kindness of an action not only by its consequences but also by … the intention underlying this action. The theory explains the relevant stylized facts of a wide range of experimental …

laboratory experiment involving three different treatments of a sequential dictator game. Without disclosing the actual amounts …

This paper presents a formal theory of reciprocity. Reciprocity means that people reward kind actions and punish unkind … ones. The theory takes into account that people evaluate the kindness of an action not only by its consequences but also by … the intention underlying this action. The theory explains the relevant stylized facts of a wide range of experimental …

experiment with a health care market framing where subjects decide on the quality levels for one of three competing hospitals …

which differentiates our experiment from previous ones. We control, first, for inter-individual performance differences …

which differentiates our experiment from previous ones. We control, first, for inter-individual performance differences …

We measure the willingness to compete of entrepreneurs and salaried workers in an experiment. We let participants …