Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/18831 
Year of Publication: 
2005
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 1467
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
We report on several experiments on the optimal allocation of ownership rights. The experiments confirm the property rights approach by showing that the ownership structure affects relationship-specific investments and that subjects attain the most efficient ownership allocation despite starting from different initial conditions. However, in contrast to the property rights approach, the most efficient ownership structure is joint ownership. These results are neither consistent with the self-interest model nor with models that assume that all people behave fairly, but they can be explained by the theory of inequity aversion that focuses on the interaction between selfish and fair players.
Subjects: 
ownership rights
double moral hazard
fairness
reciprocity
incomplete contracts
JEL: 
J3
C9
C7
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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