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Does geographic or (perceived) social distance between subjects signi?cantly affect proposer and responder behavior in ultimatum bargaining? To answer this question, subjects once play an ultimatum game with three players (proposer, responder, and dummy player) and asymmetric information (only...
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Does geographic distance or the perceived social distance between subjects significantly affect proposer and responder behavior in ultimatum bargaining? To answer this question, subjects play a one-shot ultimatum game with three players (proposer, responder, and a passive dummy player) and...
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Meritocracies aspire to reward hard work and promise not to judge individuals by the circumstances into which they were born. However, circumstances often shape the choice to work hard. I show that people's merit judgments are "shallow" and insensitive to this effect. They hold others...
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Meritocracies aspire to reward effort and hard work but promise not to judge individuals by the circumstances they were born into. The choice to work hard is, however, often shaped by circumstances. This study investigates whether people's merit judgments are sensitive to this endogeneity of...
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power factor) obtained in the game. The norm of equity behind the equalization of real earnings is called local equity norm …, and contrasted to a global equity norm which would encompass the wealth of players beyond the game. According to what we …
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. -- Intentions ; reciprocity ; fairness …
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This paper proposes a novel explanation for the context dependency of individual choices in two-player games. Context dependency refers to the well-established phenomenon that a player, when choosing from a given opportunity set created by the other player's strategy, chooses differently in...
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The three dissertation essays investigate different aspects of reputation in games where fairness is an important …
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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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resulting inequality is perceived differently and how this affects redistribution. Across treatments, we compare a spectator …'s redistribution of two workers' earnings. If workers do not compete in a zero-sum setting, average redistribution decreases. In a … of redistribution and are more likely to be Democrats. …
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