Why people reject advantageous offers-Non-monotonic strategies in ultimatum bargaining. Evaluating a video experiment run in PR China

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 373-384

  Hennig Schmidt, Heike ^a   Li, Zhu Yu ^b   Yang, Chaoliang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Content analysis; Non monotonic strategies; Social preferences; Strategy method; Ultimatum game; Video experiments

Indexed keywords

EID: 38049042390     PISSN: 01672681     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2005.10.003     Document Type: Article

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