Anyone up for helping the Fisherman's wife? More solidarity with accidental misery than with man-made misery

Anyone up for helping the Fisherman's wife? More solidarity with accidental misery than with man-made misery

We examine the willingness to donate depending on whether “misery” is random generated or self-inflicted by too high demands in bilateral negotiations. We find that randomness has a positive influence on the total amount of donation. In case of self-inflicted “misery” we observe that the subject who...

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Veröffentlicht in:MAGKS - Joint Discussion Paper Series in Economics (Band 30-2009)
Autoren: Frank, Björn, Li, Sha, Meisenzahl, Stephan, Minich, Heike, Muraro, Nina, de Pinto, Marco, Roth, Duncan, Sänger, Christoph, Saniter, Nils
Format: Arbeit
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Philipps-Universität Marburg 2009
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Wirtschaft
altruism
bargaining experiment
Economics
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Zusammenfassung:We examine the willingness to donate depending on whether “misery” is random generated or self-inflicted by too high demands in bilateral negotiations. We find that randomness has a positive influence on the total amount of donation. In case of self-inflicted “misery” we observe that the subject who may have caused the unfavourable situation receives significantly less than the perceived innocent subject.
Umfang:12 Seiten
ISSN:1867-3678
DOI:10.17192/es2024.0011

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