Three-Person Envy Games. Experimental Evidence and a Stylized Model

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URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10900/59157
http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:21-dspace-591572
http://dx.doi.org/10.15496/publikation-581
Dokumentart: Article
Date: 2015-02-10
Source: University of Tübingen Working Papers in Economics and Finance ; 79
Language: English
Faculty: 6 Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät
Department: Wirtschaftswissenschaften
DDC Classifikation: 330 - Economics
Keywords: Experiment
Other Keywords:
Envy games
experimental economics
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Abstract:

In three-person envy games, an allocator, a responder, and a dummy player interact. Since agreement payoffs of responder and dummy are exogenously given, there is no tradeoff between allocator payoff and the payoffs of responder and dummy. Rather, the allocator chooses the size of the pie and thus – being the residual claimant – defines his own payoff. While in the dictator variant of the envy game, responder and dummy can only refuse their own shares, in the ultimatum variant, the responder can accept or reject the allocator’s choice with rejection leading to zero payoffs for all three players. Comparing symmetric and asymmetric agreement payoffs for responder and dummy shows that equality concerns are significantly context-dependent: allocators are willing to leave more money on the table when universal equality can be achieved than when only partial equality is at stake. Similarly, equality seeking of responders is most prominent when universal equality is possible.

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