Inter-gender interaction and communication in ultimatum games

ABSTRACT

In this article, we focus on bargaining within male–female pairs, the most pervasive partnership in humankind. We analyse data from an ultimatum game played by Greek participants. Parallel to this, we introduce a one-way communication protocol according to which the responders can send short messages to the receivers, after making their decisions. The analysis shows that gender and message effects exist and males are more effective bargainers.

KEYWORDS:

• Bargaining
• communication
• gender effect
• message effect
• ultimatum game

JEL CLASSIFICATION:

• C70
• C90
• C91
• C92

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.