DIRECT RECIPROCITY AND SERIAL RECIPROCITY: AN EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS

Jingping Li ()
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Jingping Li: The Center for Economic Research, Shandong University, 27 Shanda South Road, Jinan 250100, P. R. China

The Singapore Economic Review (SER), 2022, vol. 67, issue 04, 1497-1516

Abstract: In this paper, we experimentally examine the relative strength of direct reciprocity and serial reciprocity. In three between–subject treatments, we solicit individual’s direct reciprocal giving and serial reciprocal giving in incentivized experiments where subjects make single or joint giving decisions. We find that, for both single and joint decisions, direct reciprocal giving and serial reciprocal giving are equivalent in magnitude. Meanwhile, an additional option of giving causes subjects to adjust their allocations between themselves and others, but this increase in total giving is not proportional to the increase in the number of recipients. This study provides new evidence of the complex relationship between direct reciprocity and serial reciprocity.

Keywords: Direct reciprocity; serial reciprocity; indirect reciprocity; the trust game; the donation game (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1142/S0217590818500376

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