Josie I Chen
Disapproval Aversion or Inflated Inequity Acceptance? The Impact of Expressing Emotions in Ultimatum Bargaining
Chen, Josie I; Kamei, Kenju
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Kenju Kamei
Abstract
Past experimental research has shown that when rating systems are available, buyers are more generous in accepting unfair offers in ultimatum bargaining. But it at the same time suggests that sellers behave more fairly to avoid receiving negative feedbacks. This paper experimentally studies which effect is stronger with a rating system: buyers’ inflated inequity acceptance or sellers’ disapproval aversion. We explore this question by varying the information condition on buyers’ side. Our experiment shows that in the setup where the size of pie is common knowledge to both buyers and sellers, when a rating system is present, the sellers exhibit disapproval aversion but the buyers do not raise inequity acceptance. But on the other hand, when only sellers are aware of the size of the pie, sellers behave aggressively to exploit buyers and their behaviors do not change by the presence of a rating system, but instead, buyers raise inequity acceptance significantly with the rating system present. We discuss that these results can be explained by a theoretical model with sellers’ social disapproval aversion and buyers’ disappointment aversion, along with the players’ inequality aversion.
Citation
Chen, J. I., & Kamei, K. (2017). Disapproval Aversion or Inflated Inequity Acceptance? The Impact of Expressing Emotions in Ultimatum Bargaining
Publication Date | Jan 1, 2017 |
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Deposit Date | May 23, 2019 |
Publicly Available Date | May 23, 2019 |
Series Title | Durham University Business School working papers series |
Public URL | https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1167644 |
Publisher URL | https://www.dur.ac.uk/business/research/economics/working-papers/ |
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