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Fairness versus efficiency: how procedural fairness concerns affect coordination
We investigate in a laboratory experiment whether procedural fairness concerns affect how well individuals are able to solve a coordination problem in a two-player Volunteer’s Dilemma. Subjects receive external action recommendations, either to volunteer or to abstain from it, in order to facilitate...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6061030/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30100813 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10683-017-9540-5 |
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author | Kurz, Verena Orland, Andreas Posadzy, Kinga |
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description | We investigate in a laboratory experiment whether procedural fairness concerns affect how well individuals are able to solve a coordination problem in a two-player Volunteer’s Dilemma. Subjects receive external action recommendations, either to volunteer or to abstain from it, in order to facilitate coordination and improve efficiency. We manipulate the fairness of the recommendation procedure by varying the probabilities of receiving the disadvantageous recommendation to volunteer between players. We find evidence that while recommendations improve overall efficiency regardless of their implications for expected payoffs, there are behavioural asymmetries depending on the recommendation: advantageous recommendations are followed less frequently than disadvantageous ones and beliefs about others’ actions are more pessimistic in the treatment with recommendations inducing unequal expected payoffs. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (doi:10.1007/s10683-017-9540-5) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. |
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spelling | pubmed-60610302018-08-09 Fairness versus efficiency: how procedural fairness concerns affect coordination Kurz, Verena Orland, Andreas Posadzy, Kinga Exp Econ Original Paper We investigate in a laboratory experiment whether procedural fairness concerns affect how well individuals are able to solve a coordination problem in a two-player Volunteer’s Dilemma. Subjects receive external action recommendations, either to volunteer or to abstain from it, in order to facilitate coordination and improve efficiency. We manipulate the fairness of the recommendation procedure by varying the probabilities of receiving the disadvantageous recommendation to volunteer between players. We find evidence that while recommendations improve overall efficiency regardless of their implications for expected payoffs, there are behavioural asymmetries depending on the recommendation: advantageous recommendations are followed less frequently than disadvantageous ones and beliefs about others’ actions are more pessimistic in the treatment with recommendations inducing unequal expected payoffs. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (doi:10.1007/s10683-017-9540-5) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. Springer US 2017-09-04 2018 /pmc/articles/PMC6061030/ /pubmed/30100813 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10683-017-9540-5 Text en © The Author(s) 2017 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. |
spellingShingle | Original Paper Kurz, Verena Orland, Andreas Posadzy, Kinga Fairness versus efficiency: how procedural fairness concerns affect coordination |
title | Fairness versus efficiency: how procedural fairness concerns affect coordination |
title_full | Fairness versus efficiency: how procedural fairness concerns affect coordination |
title_fullStr | Fairness versus efficiency: how procedural fairness concerns affect coordination |
title_full_unstemmed | Fairness versus efficiency: how procedural fairness concerns affect coordination |
title_short | Fairness versus efficiency: how procedural fairness concerns affect coordination |
title_sort | fairness versus efficiency: how procedural fairness concerns affect coordination |
topic | Original Paper |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6061030/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30100813 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10683-017-9540-5 |
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