Rethinking reciprocity

Annual Review of Economics

Volumn 6, Issue , 2014, Pages 849-874

  Malmendier, Ulrike ^a   Te Velde, Vera L ^a   Weber, Roberto A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

double dictator game; external and internal motivations; social image; social preferences; social pressure; structural estimation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84905682243     PISSN: 19411383     EISSN: 19411391     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-economics-080213-041312     Document Type: Article

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