In this paper we apply the instrumental approach to social preferences in order to distinguish among various shapes of preferences for social status. In particular, we consider the shape of reduced preferences that emerge in the equilibrium of a two-sided matching model with non-transferable...

We study the evolution of conventions in a coordination game where: (i) agents choose a location to interact locally, (ii) interactions are sometimes global and sometimes local, and (iii) agents can be either fine or coarse reasoners, i.e., agents are able or not, respectively, to distinguish...

We investigate experimentally how decisions in the Dictator Game are affected by cognitive manipulations aimed at promoting greater reliance on deliberation. Specifically, we run an online experiment where we have 6 distinct experimental conditions resulting from the combination of 2 conditions...