Anyone up for helping the fisherman's wife? More solidarity with accidental misery than with man-made misery

We examine the willingness to donate depending on whether “misery” is random generated or self-inflicted by too high demands in bilateral negotiations. We find that randomness has a positive influence on the total amount of donation. In case of self-inflicted “misery” we observe that the subject who may have caused the unfavourable situation receives significantly less than the perceived innocent subject.

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Year of publication:	2009
Authors:	Frank, Björn ; Li, Sha ; Meisenzahl, Stephan ; Minich, Heike ; Muraro, Nina
Publisher:	Marburg : Philipps-University Marburg, Faculty of Business Administration and Economics
Subject:	altruism \| bargaining experiment

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Series:	MAGKS Joint Discussion Paper Series in Economics ; 2009,30
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Working Paper
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	603935524 [GVK] hdl:10419/30076 [Handle]
Classification:	C91 - Laboratory, Individual Behavior ; D31 - Personal Income, Wealth and Their Distributions ; D64 - Altruism
Source:	EconStor

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