Doing the right thing (or not) in a lemons-like situation: on the role of social preferences and Kantian moral concerns

Ingela Alger and Jos\'e Ignacio Rivero-Wildemauwe

Papers from arXiv.org

Abstract: We conduct a laboratory experiment using framing to assess the willingness to ``sell a lemon'', i.e., to undertake an action that benefits self but hurts the other (the ``buyer''). We seek to disentangle the role of other-regarding preferences and (Kantian) moral concerns, and to test if it matters whether the decision is described in neutral terms or as a market situation. When evaluating an action, morally motivated individuals consider what their own payoff would be if -- hypothetically -- the roles were reversed and the other subject chose the same action (universalization). We vary the salience of role uncertainty, thus varying the ease for participants to envisage the role-reversal scenario.

Date: 2024-05
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cbe, nep-evo, nep-exp, nep-hme and nep-hpe
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://arxiv.org/pdf/2405.13186 Latest version (application/pdf)

Related works:
Working Paper: Doing the right thing (or not) in a lemons-like situation: on the role of social preferences and Kantian moral concerns (2024)
Working Paper: Doing the right thing (or not) in a lemons-like situation: on the role of social preferences and Kantian moral concerns (2024)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:arx:papers:2405.13186

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Papers from arXiv.org
Bibliographic data for series maintained by arXiv administrators ().