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Type:
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Working Paper |
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Author:
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Dufwenberg, Martin; Gneezy, Uri; Güth, Werner; van Damme, Eric |
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Date:
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2000 |
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Agency:
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Humboldt-Universität Zu Berlin, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Berlin, Germany |
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Series:
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Discussion Paper, Economic Series, no. 158 |
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URI:
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https://hdl.handle.net/10535/5764
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Theory |
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Subject(s):
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trust
reciprocity
game theory
altruism
experimental economics
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Abstract:
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"Direct reciprocity means to respond in kind to another person whereas
indirect reciprocity is understood here as rewarding someone else. We perform corresponding experiments which use a similar underlying structure as the reciprocity experiment of Berg, Dickhaut, and McCabe (1995). Another variation concerns the information about the multiplier of donations where we compare the benchmark case with a commonly known multiplier to a condition where the multiplier is known for sure only by donators. Questions which we try to answer are: Will indirect reciprocity induce higher or lower donations?, will donators with the high multiplier 'hide behind the small one?', how do receivers respond to the different situations?"
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