An Experimental Analysis of the Ultimatum Game: The Role of Competing Motivations

This paper forwards a new way of accounting for the experimental evidence related to the Ultimatum Game. We argue that players in this game have reasons to be both fair and self-interested, but the balance between these two considerations cannot be expressed in terms of a tradeoff. We test our thesis by perturbing the Ultimatum Game in a way that emphasizes the force of self-interest considerations; the evidence we collected provides support for our thesis.

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Year of publication:	2001-11
Authors:	Ambrus-Lakatos, Lorand ; Meszerics, Tamas
Institutions:	Közgazdaság-tudományi Intézet, Közgazdaság- és Regionális Tudományi Kutatóközpont

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	IEHAS Discussion Papers.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Number 0109 25 pages
Classification:	C72 - Noncooperative Games ; C78 - Bargaining Theory; Matching Theory ; C91 - Laboratory, Individual Behavior ; C92 - Laboratory; Group Behavior
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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