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Group Identity and Discrimination in Small Markets:
Asymmetry of In-Group Favors
- Autor(in)
- Erschienen
- 6. Oktober 2011
- Nummer des Discussion-Papers
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2011-043
- Schlagwort(e)
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Bargaining
Experiments
Group identity
Markets
- Zusammenfsg.
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We experimentally study the inuence of induced group identity on the determination of prices and beliefs in a small market game. We create group identity through a focal point coordination game. Subjects play a three-person bargaining game where one seller can sell an indivisible good to one of two competing buyers under four different treatments varying the buyer-seller constellation. We find evidence of in group favoritism on the buyer side. However we do not detect a lower ask prices for in-group sellers for in-group buyers, indicating that in-group favoritism is in favor of the more powerful market participant.
- article pub. typess JER
- Research article
- article languages JER
- Englisch
- JEL-Classification for JER
- C91 - Laboratory, Individual Behavior ; D45 - Rationing; Licensing ; L13 - Oligopoly and Other Imperfect Markets ; L14 - Transactional Relationships; Contracts and Reputation; Networks
- URN
- urn:nbn:de:urmel-b1692953-cd14-440f-8f81-28d39f55c7812-00211994-19