Promises, expectations & causation

Giovanni Di Bartolomeo (giovanni.dibartolomeo@uniroma1.it), Martin Dufwenberg, Stefano Papa and Passarelli Francesco

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Abstract: Why do people keep their promises? Vanberg (2008) and Ederer & Stremitzer (2017) provide causal evidence in favor of, respectively, an intrinsic preference for keeping one’s word and Charness & Dufwenberg’s (2006) expectations-based account based on guilt aversion. The overall picture is incomplete though, as no study disentangles effects in a design that provides exogenous variation of both (the key features of) promises and beliefs. We report evidence from an experimental design that does so.

Date: 2018-01
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