Dictator Game

A Dictator Game is a resource allocation game in which the dictator player decides how to divide the endowment and the recipient player simply receives the remainder of the endowment left by the dictator.

Context:
- It can range from (typically) being a One-Move Dictator Game to being a Unbounded-Moves Dictator Game.
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Counter-Example(s):
- an Ultimatum Game.
See: Behavioral Economics, Experimental Economics, Third-Party Punishment Game, Homo Economicus, 2-Player Competitive Game.

References

(Wikipedia, 2015) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictator_game Retrieved:2015-3-28.
- The dictator game is a game in experimental economics, similar to the ultimatum game, first developed by Daniel Kahneman and colleagues.^[1] Experimental results offer evidence against the rationally self-interested individual (sometimes called the homo economicus) concept of economic behavior,^[2] though precisely what to conclude from the evidence is controversial.^[3]

↑ Kahneman, Daniel, Jack L. Knetsch, and Richard H. Thaler. “Fairness And The Assumptions Of Economics." The Journal of Business 59.S4 (1986): S285.
↑ Levitt, Steven and Stephen Dubner (2009). Superfreakonomics New York: William Morrow.
↑ Bardsley, Nicholas. (2005) "Altruism or artifact? A Note on Dictator Game Giving" CeDEx Discussion Paper No. 2005-10.

Bardsley, Nicholas. (2005). “Altruism or artifact? A Note on Dictator Game Giving.” In: CeDEx Discussion Paper No. 2005-10.

Joseph Henrich, Robert Boyd, Samuel Bowles, Colin Camerer, Ernst Fehr, and Herbert Gintis. (2004). “Foundations of Human Sociality: Economic Experiments and Ethnographic Evidence from Fifteen Small-Scale Societies.” Oxford University Press.