Fairness in the mail and opportunism in the internet: A newspaper experiment on ultimatum bargaining

German Economic Review

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 243-265

  Güth, Werner ^a   Schmidt, Carsten ^a   Sutter, Matthias ^b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Distribution conflicts; Fairness; Newspaper (or internet) experiment; Ultimatum bargaining

Indexed keywords

BARGAINING; INTERNET; MEDIA ROLE;

EID: 0038692177     PISSN: 14656485     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-0475.00081     Document Type: Article

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