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Do I care if others lie? Current and future effects of delegation of lying

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  • Serhiy Kandul

    (Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena)

  • Oliver Kirchkamp

    (Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena)

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The aim of this study is to find out why people are telling the truth: is it a desire to respect trust, to avoid losses for others, or a mere distaste for lying per se? To answer this question we study a sender-receiver game where it is possible to delegate the act of lying and where it is possible to take pro-social actions in a subsequent dictator game. We examine how delegation affects the outcomes of people's current and future ethical decisions. We find that a non-trivial fraction of participants delegate their decision. However, delegation is associated with higher transfers in the subsequent dictator game

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  • Serhiy Kandul & Oliver Kirchkamp, 2016. "Do I care if others lie? Current and future effects of delegation of lying," Jena Economics Research Papers 2016-011, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena.
    • Handle: RePEc:jrp:jrpwrp:2016-011
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    Keywords

    Sender-Receiver games; moral balancing; guilt aversion;
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    • C72 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory - - - Noncooperative Games
    • D82 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design

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