Self-Serving Biases in Bargaining
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Keywords
fairness perceptions; self-serving bias; inequity aversion; ultimatum bargaining; outside options;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- A13 - General Economics and Teaching - - General Economics - - - Relation of Economics to Social Values
- C7 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory
- D63 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CBE-2006-03-18 (Cognitive and Behavioural Economics)
- NEP-GTH-2006-03-18 (Game Theory)
- NEP-SOC-2006-03-18 (Social Norms and Social Capital)
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