desert, so desert guilt generates behavior consistent with both positive and negative reciprocity and may underpin social … depending on whether their preferences exhibit desert elation or desert guilt. Our notion of desert generalizes distributional … of a meritocratic notion of desert under which team members care about receiving what they feel they deserve. Team …

desert, so desert guilt generates behavior consistent with both positive and negative reciprocity and may underpin social … depending on whether preferences exhibit desert elation or desert guilt. Our notion of desert generalizes distributional concern … of a meritocratic notion of desert under which team members care about receiving what they feel they deserve. Team …

averse around their meritocratically determined endogenous reference points. In a fair tournament sufficiently large desert … average. In an unfair tournament, where one agent is advantaged, the equilibrium is symmetric in the absence of desert, but … asymmetric in the presence of desert. We find that desert concerns can undermine the standard conclusion that competition for a …

formal-theoretic framework - equity theory - we explore the nexus between the perception of just deserts and honesty …

equity. This paper introduces three ways to consider efficiency and equity simultaneously. The first method, inspired by Kant …

argue that Foley's (1967) equity test, i.e., the requirement that no agent prefer the allocation obtained by swapping her …