How to be kind? Outcomes versus intentions as determinants of fairness

Economics Letters

Volumn 106, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 19-21

  Stanca, Luca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Fairness; Intentions; Laboratory experiments; Reciprocity

Indexed keywords

EID: 70849085419     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2009.09.013     Document Type: Article

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