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Shifting the Blame: On Delegation and Responsibility
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To fully understand the motives for delegating a decision right, it is important to study responsibility attributions for outcomes of delegated decisions. We conducted laboratory experiments in which subjects could either choose a fair allocation or an unfair allocation or delegate the choice, and we used a punishment option to elicit responsibility attributions. Our results show that, first, responsibility attribution can be effectively shifted and, second, this can constitute a strong motive for the delegation of a decision right. Moreover, we propose a simple measure of responsibility and show that this measure outperforms measures based on inequity aversion or reciprocity in predicting punishment behaviour.
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- Authors
- Bartling, B., & Fischbacher, U.
- Venue
- The Review of Economic Studies
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 2011-08-08
- Volume
- 79
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 67-87
- ISSN
- 0034-6527
- 1467-937X
- OpenAlex
- W3124967486
- Cited by
- 384
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 70.38
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
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