全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): Fairness versus Efficiency: How Procedural Fairness Concerns Affect Coordination

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来源类型	Working Paper
规范类型	论文
	Fairness versus Efficiency: How Procedural Fairness Concerns Affect Coordination
	Verena Kurz; Andreas Orland; Kinga Posadzy
发表日期	2016-01-20
出版年	2016
页码	EfD DP 16-01
语种	英语
摘要	What happens if a mechanism that aims at improving coordination between individuals treats selected individuals unfairly? We investigate in a laboratory experiment whether procedural fairness concerns affect how well individuals are able to solve a coordination problem in a two-player Volunteer's Dilemma. Subjects receive external action recommendations that can help them avoid miscoordination if followed by both players. One of the players receives a disadvantageous recommendation to volunteer while the other player receives a recommendation not to volunteer that gives her a payoff advantage if both players follow the recommendations they have received. We manipulate the fairness of the recommendation procedure by varying the probabilities of receiving a disadvantageous recommendation between players. We find that the recommendations improve overall efficiency regardless of their consequences for payoff division. However, there are behavioral asymmetries depending on the recommendation received by a player: advantageous recommendations are followed less frequently than disadvantageous recommendations in case of actions that guarantee a low payoff. While there is no difference in acceptance of different recommendation procedures, beliefs about others' actions are more pessimistic in the treatment with a procedure inducing unequal expected payoffs. Our data shows that beliefs about others' behavior are correlated with one's own behavior, however this is the case only when following recommendations is a strategy that involves payoff-uncertainty.
主题	Environmental Economics Topics
URL	http://www.rff.org/research/publications/fairness-versus-efficiency-how-procedural-fairness-concerns-affect
来源智库	Resources for the Future (United States)
资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/41419
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Verena Kurz,Andreas Orland,Kinga Posadzy. Fairness versus Efficiency: How Procedural Fairness Concerns Affect Coordination. 2016.