Anyone up for helping the Fisherman's wife? More solidarity with accidental misery than with man-made misery

Björn Frank, Sha Li, Heike Minich, Nina Muraro, Marco de Pinto, Christoph Sänger, Stephan Meisenzahl, Duncan Roth and Nils Saniter
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Sha Li: University of Kassel
Heike Minich: University of Kassel
Nina Muraro: University of Kassel
Marco de Pinto: University of Kassel
Christoph Sänger: University of Göttingen
Stephan Meisenzahl: Philipps-University Marburg
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Christoph Saenger

No 200930, MAGKS Papers on Economics from Philipps-Universität Marburg, Faculty of Business Administration and Economics, Department of Economics (Volkswirtschaftliche Abteilung)

Abstract: We examine the willingness to donate depending on whether “misery” is random generated or self-inflicted by too high demands in bilateral negotiations. We find that randomness has a positive influence on the total amount of donation. In case of self-inflicted “misery” we observe that the subject who may have caused the unfavourable situation receives significantly less than the perceived innocent subject.

Keywords: altruism; bargaining experiment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C91 D31 D64 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 12 pages
Date: 2009
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