
handle: 10419/83881
Abstract. This paper develops a theory of revealed preferences over one's own and others' monetary payoffs. We introduce "more altruistic than" (MAT), a partial ordering over preferences, and interpret it with known parametric models. We also introduce and illustrate "more generous than" (MGT), a partial ordering over opportunity sets. Several recent discussions of altruism focus on two player extensive form games of complete information in which the first mover (FM) chooses a more or less generous opportunity set for the second mover (SM). Here reciprocity can be formalized as the assertion that an MGT choice by the FM will elicit MAT preferences in the SM and, fur thermore, that the effect on preferences is stronger for acts of commision than acts of ommision by FM. We state and prove propositions on the observable consequences of these assertions. Then we test those propositions using existing data from investment games with dictator controls and Stackelberg games and new data from Stackelberg mini-games. The test results provide support for the theory of revealedaltruism.
330, Economics, Reciprocity, \(n\)-person games, \(n>2\), Social choice, Neoclassical preferences, more altruistic than, Neoclassical Preferences, Offenbarte Präferenzen, Social Preferences, Convexity, reciprocity, Revealed altruism, revealed preferences, more altruistic than, more generous than, neoclassical preferences, more generous than, Willingness to pay, Classical Preferences, Social Preferences, Convexity, Reciprocity, Experiments, convexity, ddc:330, experiments, Altruismus, 2-person games, revealed preferences, Revealed altruism, Experiments, Classical Preferences, Theorie, social preferences
330, Economics, Reciprocity, \(n\)-person games, \(n>2\), Social choice, Neoclassical preferences, more altruistic than, Neoclassical Preferences, Offenbarte Präferenzen, Social Preferences, Convexity, reciprocity, Revealed altruism, revealed preferences, more altruistic than, more generous than, neoclassical preferences, more generous than, Willingness to pay, Classical Preferences, Social Preferences, Convexity, Reciprocity, Experiments, convexity, ddc:330, experiments, Altruismus, 2-person games, revealed preferences, Revealed altruism, Experiments, Classical Preferences, Theorie, social preferences
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