Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/195242 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Citation: 
[Journal:] Latin American Economic Review [ISSN:] 2196-436X [Volume:] 26 [Issue:] 1 [Article No.:] 6 [Publisher:] Springer [Place:] Heidelberg [Year:] 2017 [Pages:] 1-19
Publisher: 
Springer, Heidelberg
Abstract: 
Games that appear to be independent, involving none of the same players, may be related by emotions of reciprocity between the members of the same groups. In the real world, individuals are members of groups and want to reward or punish those groups whose members have been kind or unkind to members of their own. In this paper, we extend Dufwenberg and Kirchsteiger's model of sequential reciprocity (Games Econ Behav 47(2):268-298, 2004) to groups of individuals and define a new 'sequential group reciprocity equilibrium' for which we prove its existence. We study the case of two games with two players in each game, where each player belongs to the same group as a player in the other game. We show that when the payoffs of one game are much higher than the payoffs of the other, the outcome of the game with higher payoffs determines the outcome of the other game. We also find that when the payoffs are very asymmetric, the outcome where the sum of the payoffs is maximized is a sequential group reciprocity equilibrium.
Subjects: 
Fairness
Groups
Psychological games
Game theory
JEL: 
A12
D63
C70
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Document Type: 
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