Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/85768 
Year of Publication: 
2001
Series/Report no.: 
Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper No. 01-003/1
Publisher: 
Tinbergen Institute, Amsterdam and Rotterdam
Abstract: 
This paper provides experimental evidence showing that indirectreciprocity may important in economic decision making and in thedevelopment of group norms. We study a `repeated helping game' withrandom pairing in large groups, with individuals equally dividedbetween donors and recipients. Donors decide whether to help theindividuals they are matched with against a certain cost or not tohelp, enduring no costs. We observe that many decision makers respondto the information we give them about former decisions of therecipients, even if they realize that this information is based ontransactions with third parties.
JEL: 
C92
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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