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Testing the single-peakedness of other-regarding preferences Levati, Vittoria, Nicholas, Aaron and Rai, Birendra 2014, Testing the single-peakedness of other-regarding preferences, European economic review, vol. 67, pp. 197-209. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title Testing the single-peakedness of other-regarding preferences Author(s) Levati, Vittoria Nicholas, Aaron Rai, Birendra Journal name European economic review Volume number 67 Start page 197 End page 209 Total pages 13 Publisher Elsevier Place of publication Amsterdam, The Netherlands Publication date 2014-04 ISSN 0014-2921 Keyword(s) other-regarding preferences single-peaked preferences experiment Summary We test an implication that is common to all prominent theories of outcome-based other-regarding preferences: the ordinal preference ranking of an agent over a finite number of alternatives lying on any straight line in the space of material payoffs to oneself and some other agent must be single-peaked or single-plateaued. An incentive compatible mechanism is used to elicit strict preference rankings of subjects over a finite set of alternatives in decision tasks based on dictator and trust games. Violations of single-peakedness range from a low of 19% to a high of 46% across the six main treatments. Other-regarding subjects violate single-peakedness significantly more often than self-regarding subjects. The presence of equal-split in the set of alternatives increases the number of violations. We argue that the violations cannot be explained by appealing to the relative ease of reporting certain rankings or as errors from the theoretical benchmark. Language eng Field of Research 140206 Experimental Economics Socio Economic Objective 970114 Expanding Knowledge in Economics HERDC Research category C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal Copyright notice ©2014, Elsevier Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30062287 Document type: Journal Article Collections: Faculty of Business and Law Deakin Graduate School of Business Related Links Link Description Connect to published version (restricted access) Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Tue, 01 Apr 2014, 12:08:53 EST Wed, 02 Apr 2014, 07:30:03 EST Fri, 04 Apr 2014, 12:48:58 EST Fri, 04 Apr 2014, 12:51:02 EST Fri, 04 Apr 2014, 13:00:42 EST Fri, 04 Apr 2014, 13:02:02 EST Fri, 04 Apr 2014, 14:36:59 EST Fri, 04 Apr 2014, 14:38:06 EST Tue, 08 Apr 2014, 14:45:33 EST Fri, 11 Apr 2014, 10:23:57 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 0 times in TR Web of Science Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 53 Abstract Views, 6 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Tue, 01 Apr 2014, 12:08:37 EST by Katrina Fleming

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