What drives failure to maximize payoffs in the lab? A test of the inequality aversion hypothesis.

In experiments based on the Beard and Beil (1994) game, second movers very often fail to select the decision that maximizes both players payoff. This note reports on a new experimental treatment, in which we neutralize the potential effect of inequality aversion on the likelihood of this behavior. We show this behavior is robust to this change, even after allowing for repetition-based learning.

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Year of publication:	2011-06
Authors:	Jacquemet, Nicolas ; Zylbersztejn, Adam
Institutions:	Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Université Paris 1 (Panthéon-Sorbonne)
Subject:	Coordination failure \| laboratory experiments \| aversion to inequality

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	Documents de travail du Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne. - ISSN 1955-611X.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	10 pages
Classification:	C72 - Noncooperative Games ; D83 - Search, Learning, Information and Knowledge
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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