Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/25636
Year of Publication: 
2007
Series/Report no.: 
Jena Economic Research Papers No. 2007,070
Publisher: 
Friedrich Schiller University Jena and Max Planck Institute of Economics, Jena
Abstract: 
This paper studies the response times of experimental subjects playing the Ultimatum game in a laboratory setting using monetary incentives. We find that proposals are not significantly correlated with response time, whereas responders’ behavior is positively and significantly correlated. Hence, consistent with Rubisntein (forthcoming) we find that response times may capture relevant cognitive processes. However, the use of monetary incentives causes a reversal of his findings. These results have implications for the information about cognitive mechanisms that can be obtained from response times.
Subjects: 
Monetary incentives
Ultimatum game
response time
JEL: 
C72
C91
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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