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 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 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 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 …

situations. In particular we analyze the strategic behaviour of two identical desert-motivated agents in a rank-order tournament … her perceived entitlement. Sufficiently strong desert concerns render the usual symmetric equilibrium unstable or non …-existent and allow asymmetric desert equilibria to arise in which one agent works hard while the other slacks off. As a result …

high efforts. The treatment difference instead seems to be driven by the fact that the norm of equity is violated far more … frequently in the equal wage treatment. After having suffered from violations of the equity principle, agents withdraw effort … that adherence to the norm of equity is a necessary prerequisite for successful establishment of gift-exchange relations. …

high efforts. The treatment difference instead seems to be driven by the fact that the norm of equity is violated far more … frequently in the equal wage treatment. After having suffered from violations of the equity principle, agents withdraw effort … that adherence to the norm of equity is a necessary prerequisite for successful establishment of gift-exchange relations. …