What limits escalation? - Varying threat power in an ultimatum experiment

Economics Letters

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 53-60

  Fellner, Gerlinde ^a   Güth, Werner ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR THE SCIENCE OF HUMAN HISTORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bargaining; Fairness; Punishment; Threat power

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037564580     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-1765(03)00063-6     Document Type: Article

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