Reciprocity as a Contract Enforcement Device: Experimental Evidence

DOI10.2307/2171941zbMath0891.90039MaRDI QIDQ4368515

Georg Kirchsteiger, Simon Gächter, Ernst Fehr

Publication date: 4 December 1997

Published in: Econometrica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/2171941

zbMATH Keywords

moral hazard; principal agent; enforcement of contracts; reciprocal responses

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

91B14: Social choice

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