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Falk, Armin; Fischbacher, Urs - 2001

This paper presents a formal theory of reciprocity. Reciprocity means that people reward kind actions and punish unkind ones. The theory takes into account that people evaluate the kindness of an action not only by its consequences but also by the intention underlying this action. The theory...

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Appropriating the commons : a theoretical explanation

Falk, Armin; Fehr, Ernst; Fischbacher, Urs - 2001

In this paper we show that a simple model of fairness preferences explains major experimental regularities of common …

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Moral Hypocrisy, Power and Social Preferences

Rustichini, Aldo - 2012

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 … norm in its favor and the weak side agrees: Stated fairness is a compromise with power. Second, in most situations …

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Moral Hypocrisy, Power and Social Preferences

Rustichini, Aldo - 2014

We study how individuals adjust their judgment of fairness and unfairness when they are in the position of spectators …

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Equity versus efficiency? : Evidence from three-person generosity experiments

Güth, Werner; Pull, Kerstin; Stadler, Manfred; Bäker, … - 2010

In two-person generosity games the proposer's agreement payoff is exogenously given whereas that of the responder is endogenously determined by the proposer's choice of the pie size. Earlier results for two-person generosity games show that participants seem to care more for efficiency than for...

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The role of equality and efficiency in social preferences

Fehr, Ernst; Naef, Michael; Schmidt, Klaus M. - 2004

Engelmann and Strobel (AER 2004) claim that a combination of efficiency seeking and minmax preferences dominates inequity aversion in simple dictator games. This result relies on a strong subject pool effect. The participants of their experiments were undergraduate students of economics and...

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Does entitlement crowd out efficiency or equality seeking? : selling the roles in generosity game experiments

Bäker, Agnes; Güth, Werner; Pull, Kerstin; Stadler, … - 2010

In generosity games, one agreement payoff is exogenously given, whereas the other is endogenously determined by the proposer's choice of the "pie" size. This has been shown to induce pie choices which are either efficiency or equality seeking. In our experiment, before playing the generosity...

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Moral hypocrisy, power and social preferences

Rustichini, Aldo; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2012

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The role of equality and equity in social preferences

Fehr, Ernst; Naef, Michael; Schmidt, Klaus M. - 2005

Engelmann and Strobel (AER 2004) question the relevance of inequity aversion in simple dictator game experiments claiming that a combination of a preference for efficiency and a Rawlsian motive for helping the least well-off is more important than inequity aversion. We show that these results...

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A Theory of Reciprocity

Falk, Armin; Fischbacher, Urs - 2021

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