evidence that they also encourage reciprocity. Keyword(s): Reciprocity; Retribution; Fairness; Non-binding contracts …-shot experiments were conducted with and without the possibility of making non-binding contracts beforehand. We find that retribution … is much more compelling than reciprocity. Although contracts are not binding they increase trust, but we do not find …

Recently developed models of fairness can explain a wide variety of seemingly contradictory facts. The most … controversial and yet unresolved issue in the modeling of fairness preferences concerns the behavioral relevance of fairness … intentions. Intuitively, fairness intentions seem to play an important role in economic relations, political struggles and legal …

exclusively based on preferences over the distribution of material payoffs. Models that take into account players’ fairness …

The perception of fairness of an offer in ultimatum type games may not only depend upon the distributional aspects of … ultimatum type game that affects perception of fairness. Two games are put to test. In both games, a proposer has two available …

Intention-based models of reciprocity argue that people assess kindness by measuring the intended consequences of … alternatives and realized payoffs. Aggregate results suggest that intended consequences only weakly matter for negative reciprocity … invariant to intended consequences of actual behavior. -- Intentions ; reciprocity ; kindness ; gender …

incompleteness and relational nature of most employment contracts and (b) the existence of reference-dependent fairness concerns … among a substantial share of the population into account. Theory shows and experiments confirm that, even if fairness … fairness on effort, derive predictions from our approach for entry-level wages and incumbent workers’ wages, confront these …