How Werner Güth's ultimatum game shaped our understanding of social behavior

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization

Volumn 108, Issue , 2014, Pages 292-318

  van Damme, Eric ^a   Binmore, Kenneth G ^b   Roth, Alvin E ^c   Samuelson, Larry ^d   Winter, Eyal ^e   Bolton, Gary E ^f   Ockenfels, Axel ^g   Dufwenberg, Martin ^h   Kirchsteiger, Georg ⁱ   Gneezy, Uri ^j   Kocher, Martin G ^k   Sutter, Matthias ^l   Sanfey, Alan G ^m,n,o   Kliemt, Hartmut ^p   Selten, Reinhard ^q   Nagel, Rosemarie ^r   Azar, Ofer H ^s  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^h BOCCONI UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

ⁱ UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^j UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^k QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^l IZA   (Germany)

^m RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

ⁿ RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^o UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^p FRANKFURT SCHOOL OF FINANCE AND MANAGEMENT   (Germany)

^q UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^r UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^s BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

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EID: 84916941035     PISSN: 01672681     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2014.10.014     Document Type: Article

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