An Experimental Investigation of Fairness and Reciprocal Behavior in a Triangular Principal'-Multiagent Relationship

Alessandro Rossi () and Massimo Warglien ()

No 46, Quaderni DISA from Department of Computer and Management Sciences, University of Trento, Italy

Abstract: A laboratory investigation of a simple agency model that allow to study how the principal's fairness affects the attitude towards cooperation between two interdependent agents performing a simple production task.

Keywords: principal-agent theory; prisoner's dilemma; reciprocity; fairness; experimental economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Working Paper: An experimental Investigation of Fairness and Reciprocal Behavior in a Triangular Principal-Multiagent Relationship (2008)
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