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| Type | Working Paper |
| Scope | Discipline-based scholarship |
| Title | Shifting the Blame: On Delegation and Responsibility |
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| Institution | University of Zurich |
| Series Name | Working paper series / Institute for Empirical Research in Economics |
| Number | No. 380 |
| ISSN | 1424-0459 |
| Date | 2008 |
| Abstract Text | To fully understand the motives for delegating a decision right, it is important to study responsibility attributions for outcomes of delegated decisions. We conducted an experiment in which subjects were able to delegate the choice between a fair or unfair allocation, and used a punishment option to elicit responsibility attributions. Our results show that, first, responsibility attribution can be effectively shifted and, second, this constitutes a powerful motive for the delegation of a decision right.nFurthermore, we propose a formal measure of responsibility and show thatnthis measure outperforms measures based on outcome or intention in predicting punishment behavior. |
| Official URL | http://www.econ.uzh.ch/wp.html |
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