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http://hdl.handle.net/1893/20481| Appears in Collections: | Economics Journal Articles |
| Peer Review Status: | Refereed |
| Title: | Trust on the brink of Armageddon: The first-strike game |
| Author(s): | Abbink, Klaus de Haan, Thomas |
| Contact Email: | thomas.dehaan@stir.ac.uk |
| Keywords: | Fear Spite Deterrence Trust Laboratory experiment |
| Issue Date: | Apr-2014 |
| Date Deposited: | 17-Jun-2014 |
| Citation: | Abbink K & de Haan T (2014) Trust on the brink of Armageddon: The first-strike game. European Economic Review, 67, pp. 190-196. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euroecorev.2014.01.009 |
| Abstract: | We introduce the experimental first-strike game. Two players accumulate earnings over many rounds. In any round a player can deactivate the opponent. This means that the opponent loses all earnings and faces severely reduced future payoffs. It also means that the opponent can no longer deactivate the aggressor in later rounds. Thus deactivation is a hostile act, but can serve as a self-protection device. We run four treatments to disentangle the effect of spite, fear of spite, and trust. We find the absence of pure nastiness, but nevertheless a strong fear of it. Mutual trust can considerably reduce hostility. |
| DOI Link: | 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2014.01.009 |
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