Social distance and reciprocity: An Internet experiment

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 88-103

  Charness, Gary ^a   Haruvy, Ernan ^b   Sonsino, Doron ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^c College of Management ^*  (Israel)

Author keywords

Internet experiments; Lost wallet game; Reciprocity; Social distance

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847151217     PISSN: 01672681     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2005.04.021     Document Type: Article

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