Dagılım problemleri ve karar verici sınıflandırması

Though deviating from pure self-interest in economic experiments encouraged the researchers to focus on the topic of 'social preferences', the certain types of social preferences obtained in the experiments are not direct representations of the real-life distributional preference behaviour. When subjects are not given the option of sorting between different economic environments, where they can choose to take the leader role to implement their choices over distributions and where they cannot, then these models would overestimate the impact of distributional preferences. This thesis experimentally studies the relationship between distributional preferences and willingness to decide in 2-person groups while focusing on the importance of sorting into decision-making. The decision maker is chosen via a voluntary mechanism that allows sorting of the subjects as those who are willing to take the leader role to determine the distribution and those who refrain from deciding. We find that differing from the social preferences model findings, when subjects are concerned with the leadership decision, the weight they put on the difference in their own monetary payoffs between distributions gets substantially smaller and approaches to zero, implying that they, instead, are rather concerned with their position in comparison with that of the other agent. We also find that though subjects with efficiency loving concerns are the majority of the sample, their willingness to implement their preferences is not statistically high. On the other hand, inequality averse subjects have the higher probability to be willing to decide to decrease the discrepancies between payoffs while the spiteful subjects are less willing to not allow the other person to get a higher payoff than them.