Social status and group norms: Indirect reciprocity in a repeated helping experiment

European Economic Review

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 581-602

  Seinen, Ingrid ^a   Schram, Arthur ^b  

^a Netherlands Competition Authority   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Experimental economics; Reciprocity

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY; ECONOMICS;

EID: 33645120602     PISSN: 00142921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2004.10.005     Document Type: Article

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