inform the debate on the fairness of market outcomes by showing that the use of a competitive procedure can, by itself …

-applicable model of path-dependent fairness preferences, in which past experiences shape preferences, and we experimentally test the …' fairness concerns, making them more likely to accept transactions in which they receive a low share of the surplus. Consistent …

diversion of resources from production unless the members of a given mini-society can abide by norms of non-theft or engage in … theft and most groups achieve much greater efficiency in the presence of communication. Ease of identifying who has engaged … in theft varies across the two communication treatments, but is of minor importance to the outcome. We find several …

participants receive cues emphasizing social norms, on the other hand, both economics and non-economics students are less likely to …

Are competitive mechanisms perceived as just sources of economic inequality? Perceptions of fairness violations can … shading. To analyze fairness perceptions associated with competitive mechanisms, we run laboratory experiments where a single …

The paper reports the first experimental study on people's fairness views on extreme income inequalities arising from …" fairness argument for no redistribution: the winner deserves all the earnings because these earnings were determined by his or …

While many studies have shown that fairness matters few efforts have been made to find out how important fairness is to … the individual and thereby assessing the limits of these fairness concerns. This study reports on Trust game experiments … that 90 percent of subjects that had demonstrated fairness ambitions were willing to let down their counterparts if …

How malleable are people's fairness ideals? Although fairness is an oft-invoked concept in allocation situations, it is … still unclear whether and to what extent people's allocations reflect their fairness ideals. We investigate in a laboratory … experiment whether people's fairness ideals vary with respect to changes in the order in which they undertake two allocation …