Arbeitspapier

Learning to like what you have: Explaining the endowment effect

The endowment effect describes the fact that people demand much more to give up an object than they are willing to spend to acquire it. The existence of this effect has been documented in numerous experiments. We attempt to explain this effect by showing that evolution favors individuals whose preferences embody an endowment effect. The reason is that an endowment effect improves one's bargaining position in bilateral trades. We show that for a general class of evolutionary processes almost all individuals will have a strictly positive and finite endowment effect.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: SFB 373 Discussion Paper ; No. 1997,38

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Stochastic and Dynamic Games; Evolutionary Games; Repeated Games
Game Theory and Bargaining Theory: Other
Microeconomics: General

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Huck, Steffen
Kirchsteiger, Georg
Oechssler, Jörg
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Humboldt University of Berlin, Interdisciplinary Research Project 373: Quantification and Simulation of Economic Processes
(wo)
Berlin
(wann)
1997

Handle
URN
urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-10064208
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:41 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Huck, Steffen
  • Kirchsteiger, Georg
  • Oechssler, Jörg
  • Humboldt University of Berlin, Interdisciplinary Research Project 373: Quantification and Simulation of Economic Processes

Entstanden

  • 1997

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