Intention-Based Economic Theories of Reciprocity

Publicado en

  • Revista de Economía del Rosario

Resumen

  • In recent years, several experiments have shown individuals exhibit authentic reciprocal behaviour in anonymous one-shot interactions. As reciprocity has been shown to be relevant in several economic fields, there have also been several attempts to model reciprocal bahaviour. I review the intention-based models of reciprocity and present an example of teacher management in the public sector in which the government offers an incentive scheme to implement a program. The incentive scheme has a prisoner´s dilemma structure. In both simultaneous and sequential games, equilibrium results may differ from those predicted by standard theory.

fecha de publicación

  • 2002

Líneas de investigación

  • Juegos sicológicos
  • Modelos basados en intensiones
  • Reciprocidad
  • Teoría de juegos