Information in ultimatum games: An experimental study

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 197-212

  Croson, Rachel T A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Contingent weighting; Experiment; Fairness; Framing; Ultimatum game; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030210472     PISSN: 01672681     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-2681(96)00857-8     Document Type: Article

References (27)

1. Bolton, Gary, 1991, A comparative model of bargaining: Theory and evidence, American Economic Review, 81, 1096-1136.
2. Bolton, Gary, and Rami Zwick, 1995 forthcoming, Anonymity versus punishment in ultimatum bargaining, Games and Economic Behavior.
3. Carter, John and Michael Irons, 1991, Are economists different, and if so, why?, Journal of Economic Perspectives, 5, 171-177.
4. Eckel, Catherine and Philip Grossman, 1992, Chivalry and solidarity in ultimatum games, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Working Paper in Economics, E92-23.
5. Forsythe, Robert, John Kennan and Barry Sopher, 1991, An experimental analysis of strikes in bargaining games with one-sided private information, American Economic Review, 81, 253-278.
6. Forsythe, Robert, Joel Horowitz, N.E. Savin and Martin Sefton, 1994, Fairness in simple bargaining experiments, Games and Economic Behavior, 6, 347-369.
7. G, üth, WernerSchmittberger, Rolf and Bernd Schwarze, 1982, An experimental analysis of ultimatum bargaining, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 3, 367-388.
8. Güth, Werner and Reinhard Tietz, 1986, Auctioning ultimatum bargaining positions: How to decide if rational decisions are unacceptable? In: R.W. Scholz, Ed., Current Issues in West German Decision Research, (Verlag Peter Lang, Frankfurt, Germany).
9. G, üth, WernerTietz, Reinhard, 1990, Ultimatum bargaining behavior: A survey and comparison of experimental results, Journal of Economic Psychology, 11, 417-449.
10. Harrison, Glenn and Kevin McCabe, Forthcoming, Expectations and fairness in a simple bargaining games, International Journal of Game Theory.
11. Hoffman, Elizabeth, Kevin McCabe, Keith Shachat and Vernon Smith, 1992, Preferences, property rights and anonymity in bargaining games, Working Paper 92-98, (University of Arizona, AZ, USA).
12. Kagel, John, Chung Kim and Donald Moser, 1992, Fairness in ultimatum games with asymmetric information and asymmetric payoffs, Working Paper, (University of Pittsburgh, PA).
13. Kravitz, David and Samuel Gunto, 1992, Decisions and perceptions of recipients in ultimatum bargaining games, Journal of Socio-Economics, 21, 65-84.
14. Mitzkewitz, Michael and Rosemarie Nagel, 1993, Experimental results on ultimatum games with incomplete information, International Journal of Game Theory, 22, 171-198.
15. Ochs, Jack and Alvin Roth, 1989, An experimental study of sequential bargaining, American Economic Review, 79, 355-384.
16. Ortona, Guido, 1991, The ultimatum game: Some new experimental evidence, Economic Notes, 20, 324-334.
17. Prasnikar, Vesna and Alvin Roth, 1992, Considerations of fairness and strategy: Experimental data from sequential games, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 107, 865-888.
18. Rapoport, Amnon, James Sundali and Richard Potter, 1992, Single-stage ultimatum games with incomplete information: Effects of the variability of the pie distribution, Unpublished Manuscript, (University of Arizona, AZ, USA).
19. Rapoport, Amnon, James Sundali and Darryl Searle, 1993, Ultimatums in two-person bargaining with one-sided uncertainty: Demand games, Unpublished Manuscript, (University of Arizona, AZ, USA).
20. Roth, Alvin, 1995, Bargaining experiments In: A.E. Roth and J. Kagel, Eds., Handbook of Experimental Economics, (Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ).
21. Roth, Alvin and Malouf Malouf, 1979, Game-theoretic models and the role of information in bargaining, Psychological Review, 86, 547-594.
22. Roth, Alvin, Vesna Prasnikar, Masahiro Okuno-Fujiwara and Shmuel Zamil, 1991, Bargaining and market behavior in Jerusalem, Ljubljana, Pittsburgh and Tokyo: An experimental study, American Economic Review, 81, 1068-1095.
23. Schotter, Andrew, Avi Weiss and Ingno Zapater, 1993, Fairness and survival in ultimatum and dictator games, Working Paper 93-3, (Brown University, Department of Economics).
24. Siegel, Sidney, 1956, Nonparametric statistics for the behavioral sciences, (McGraw Hill, NY).
25. Straub, Paul and J. Keith Murnighan, forthcoming, An experimental investigation of ultimatums: Information, fairness, expectations and lowest acceptable offers, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization.
26. Thaler, Richard, 1988, Anomalies: The ultimatum game, Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2, 195-206.
27. Tversky, Aamos, Shmuel Sattath and Paul Slovic, 1988, Contingent weighting in judgment and choice, Psychological Review, 95, 371-384.