Fairness as a constraint on trust in reciprocity: Earned property rights in a reciprocal exchange experiment

Economics Letters

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 275-282

  Fahr, René ^a   Irlenbusch, Bernd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

C70; C78; C91; D63; Experiments; Fairness; Mindreading; Property rights; Real effort; Reciprocity; Trust

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034424535     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-1765(99)00236-0     Document Type: Article

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