Tit for tat: Foundations of preferences for reciprocity in strategic settings

Journal of Economic Theory

Volumn 136, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 197-216

  Segal, Uzi ^a   Sobel, Joel ^b  

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Extended preferences; Game theory; Reciprocity; Representation theorems

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548052459     PISSN: 00220531     EISSN: 10957235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jet.2006.07.003     Document Type: Article

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