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Moral entitlements and aspiration formation in asymmetric bargaining: Experimental evidence from Germany and China

Hennig-Schmidt, Heike; Walkowitz, Gari - In: Games 8 (2017) 4, pp. 1-25

Using a unique experimental data set, we investigate how asymmetric legal rights shape bargainers' aspiration levels through moral entitlements derived from equity norms and number prominence. Aspiration formation is typically hard to observe in real life. Our study involves 15 negotiations from...

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Moral entitlements and aspiration formation in asymmetric bargaining : experimental evidence from Germany and China

Hennig-Schmidt, Heike; Walkowitz, Gari - In: Games 8 (2017) 4, pp. 1-25

Using a unique experimental data set, we investigate how asymmetric legal rights shape bargainers’ aspiration levels through moral entitlements derived from equity norms and number prominence. Aspiration formation is typically hard to observe in real life. Our study involves 15 negotiations...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011771180

ASYMMETRY AND COLLUSION IN INFINITELY REPEATED CONTESTS

Amegashie, J. Atsu - Department of Economics and Finance, College of … - 2005

I show that in an infinitely repeated contest, collusion is easier to sustain when the players are more equal than when they are less equal. Therefore, aggregate rent-seeking expenditures may be lower when the contestants are more equally matched. This is in sharp contrast to the standard result...

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Publicness of goods and violent conflict: Evidence from Colombia

Cortes, Darwin; Montolio, Daniel - UNIVERSIDAD DEL ROSARIO - 2013

AbstractHow the degree of publicness of goods affect violent conflict? Based on the theoretical model in Esteban and …), the degree of publicness increases (decreases) the likelihood of conflict. This opens an empirical question that we tackle … using microdata from the Colombian conflict at the municipality level. We use three goods with different publicness degree …

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Land Inequality and Conflict Intensity

De Luca, Giacomo; Sekeris, Petros - 2009

This paper investigates the impact of land inequality on conflict intensity. A fundamental distinction with the … only influences the intensity of the fight against a rebel group constituted by landless individuals. We show that conflict …

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Peace and goodwill? Using an experimental game to analyse the Desarrollo y Paz initiative in Colombia

Attanasio, Orazio; Pellerano, Luca; Phillips, David - 2009

Several decades of conflict, rebellion and unrest severely weakened civil society in parts of Colombia. Desarollo y Paz …

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Land Inequality and Conflict Intensity

De Luca, Giacomo; Sekeris, Petros - Verein für Socialpolitik, Ausschuss für … - 2009

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Voting on punishment systems within a heterogeneous group

Noussair, Charles; Tan, Fangfang - 2009

We consider a voluntary contributions game, in which players may punish others after contributions are made and observed. The productivity of contributions, as captured in the marginal-per-capita return, differs among individuals, so that there are two types: high and low productivity. Every two...

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Voting on Punishment Systems within a Heterogeneous Group

Noussair, Charles N. - 2013

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Endogenous community formation and collective provision – A procedurally fair mechanism

Güth, Werner - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 108 (2014) C, pp. 389-395

A group of actors, individuals or firms, can engage in collectively providing projects which may be costly or generating revenues and which may benefit some and harm others. Based on requirements of procedural fairness, we derive a bidding mechanism determining endogenously who participates in...

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