Do cultures clash? Evidence from cross-national ultimatum game experiments

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 35-48

  Chuah, Swee Hoon ^a   Hoffmann, Robert ^a   Jones, Martin ^b   Williams, Geoffrey ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Cross cultural experiments; Social preferences; Ultimatum game

Indexed keywords

EID: 34447513253     PISSN: 01672681     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2006.04.006     Document Type: Article

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