The pleasure of being nasty
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| Publication date |
2009
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| Journal |
Economics Letters
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| Volume | Issue number |
105 | 3
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| Pages (from-to) |
306-308
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| Organisations |
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Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB) - Amsterdam School of Economics Research Institute (ASE-RI)
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| Abstract |
We introduce the joy-of-destruction game. Two players each receive an endowment and simultaneously decide on how much of the other player's endowment to destroy. In a treatment without fear of retaliation, money is destroyed in almost 40% of all decisions.
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| Document type |
Article
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| Language |
English
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| Published at |
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2009.08.024
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