Anticipated communication in the ultimatum game

Mario Capizzani, Luigi Mittone, Andrew Musau and Antonino Vaccaro

No 1602, CEEL Working Papers from Cognitive and Experimental Economics Laboratory, Department of Economics, University of Trento, Italia

Abstract: Anticipated verbal feedback in a dictator game has been shown to induce altruistic behavior. Xiao and Houser (2009), and Ellingsen and Johannesson (2007), find that when the allocator donates an amount to a recipient, and the recipient sends an anonymous written message after learning of the amount, donations are higher in relation to the standard (no-communication) condition. We experimentally investigate whether strategic considerations crowd out anticipatory effects of communication in an ultimatum game, and find that such effects still persist in the pres- ence of two-sided communication.

Keywords: ultimatum game; anticipated communication; experiment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C78 C91 D03 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-exp, nep-gth and nep-hpe
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