Fischer, Sven (Economist)

Güth, Werner (Director Strategic Interaction Group, Max-Planck-Institute of Economics, Jena; Professor of Economics, University of Jena)

2011-053

bargaining

Exclusion

experiment

social preferences

ultimatum game

In three party ultimatum games the proposer can first decide whether to exclude one responder, what increases the available pie. The experiments control for intentionality of exclusion and veto power of the third party. We do not find evidence for indirect reciprocity of the remaining responder after the exclusion of the other. Similarly, not excluding the second responder is only insignificantly reciprocated by it. Overall, we find little evidence that intentional exclusion has substantial effects on behavior.