We study experimentally whether and to what extent impartial decision makers are influenced by stakeholders’ fairness … opinions in an allocation decision. The setting allows for different focal fairness rules to be considered. We compare … communication treatments, in which one of the stakeholders states his or her opinion prior to the allocation decision, to a baseline …

willingness to pay for ex-ante communication, however (experiment 2). …

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

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

This study evaluates people’s concerns for distributive fairness (equality of outcomes and payoffs to those worse …-off) and reciprocal fairness (receiving what one is due based on one’s past actions) using dictator, ultimatum, and trust games … distributive fairness, we identify positive offers as first movers in both games as evidence of expectations of reciprocity by …

the fairness and unfairness of allocations in three different scenarios (a Dictator game, an Ultimatum game, and a Trust … same session we elicit again their principles regarding the fairness and unfairness of allocations in the same three … scenarios. Our results show that individuals adjust abstract norms to fit the game, their role and the choices they made. First …