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 strictly positive endowment effects will survive in the long run.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Bonn Econ Discussion Papers ; No. 5/2003

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Game Theory and Bargaining Theory: Other
Stochastic and Dynamic Games; Evolutionary Games; Repeated Games
Microeconomics: General
Thema
endowment effect
evolution
bargaining
Verhandlungen
Willingness to pay
Evolutionsökonomik
Theorie

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Huck, Steffen
Kirchsteiger, Georg
Oechssler, Jörg
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
University of Bonn, Bonn Graduate School of Economics (BGSE)
(wo)
Bonn
(wann)
2003

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Huck, Steffen
  • Kirchsteiger, Georg
  • Oechssler, Jörg
  • University of Bonn, Bonn Graduate School of Economics (BGSE)

Entstanden

  • 2003

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