Belief-dependent preferences and reputation: Experimental analysis of a repeated trust game

Giuseppe Attanasi, Pierpaolo Battigalli (), Elena Manzoni and Rosemarie Nagel

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2019, vol. 167, issue C, 341-360

Abstract: We study in a theoretical and experimental setting the interaction between belief-dependent preferences and reputation building in a finitely repeated trust game. We focus mainly on the effect of guilt aversion. In a simple two-type model, we analyze the effect of reputation building in the presence of guilt-averse trustees and derive behavioral predictions. We test these predictions in a laboratory experiment where we elicit information on trustees’ belief-dependent preferences and disclose it to the paired trustor before the repeated game.

Keywords: Repeated psychological game; Reputation; Guilt; Almost complete information (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C72 C73 C91 D83 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2018.12.002

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