Arbeitspapier

Making the world a better place: Experimental evidence from the generosity game

We study ultimatum and dictator experiments where the first mover chooses the amount of money to be distributed between the players within a given interval, knowing that her own share is fixed. Thus, the first mover is faced with scarcity, but not with the typical trade-off between her own and the other's payoff. Removing the trade-off inspires significant generosity, which is not affected by the second mover's veto power. On the whole our results confirm heterogeneity in behavior, but point to efficiency concerns as the predominant motive.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Jena Economic Research Papers ; No. 2009,071

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Game Theory and Bargaining Theory: General
Design of Experiments: Laboratory, Individual
Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
Thema
Ultimatum
Dictator
Social Preferences
Verhandlungstheorie
Soziale Wohlfahrtsfunktion
Altruismus
Theorie

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Güth, Werner
Levati, Maria Vittoria
Ploner, Matteo
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Friedrich Schiller University Jena and Max Planck Institute of Economics
(wo)
Jena
(wann)
2009

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Güth, Werner
  • Levati, Maria Vittoria
  • Ploner, Matteo
  • Friedrich Schiller University Jena and Max Planck Institute of Economics

Entstanden

  • 2009

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