The pleasure of being nasty

Authors
Publication date 2009
Journal Economics Letters
Volume | Issue number 105 | 3
Pages (from-to) 306-308
Organisations
  • Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB) - Amsterdam School of Economics Research Institute (ASE-RI)
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.

Document type Article
Language English
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