Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/73882 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
Working Papers in Economics and Statistics No. 2012-17
Publisher: 
University of Innsbruck, Research Platform Empirical and Experimental Economics (eeecon), Innsbruck
Abstract: 
We conduct a laboratory experiment with a constant-sum sender-receiver game to investigate the impact of individuals’ first- and second-order beliefs on truth-telling. While senders are more likely to lie if they expect the receiver to trust their message (which is in line with expected payoff maximization), they are also more likely to tell the truth if they believe the receiver expects them to tell the truth. We observe no such dependence on second-order beliefs in a payoff equivalent game of matching pennies. Our results therefore indicate an impact of second-order beliefs as derived in models of guilt aversion in an antagonistic setting which is specific to strategic information transmission.
Subjects: 
Experiment
Sender-receiver games
Strategic information transmission
Guilt-from-blame
let-down aversion
JEL: 
C70
C91
D03
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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