Abstract
While talk is cheap to some, it is expensive to others for whom moral considerations come into play. We employ a simple two-stage modified prisoner's dilemma game where integrity is endowed on a continuum to analyze when agents will lie in random economic interactions. If there is sufficient integrity in the population, all agents make a promise in the first stage to cooperate in the second. Some agents always lie, some always tell the truth, and some behave conditionally. Enhanced cooperation is a byproduct of integrity.
Recommended Citation
Minkler, Lanse P. and Miceli, Thomas J., "Lying, Integrity, and Cooperation" (2002). Economics Working Papers. 200236.
https://digitalcommons.lib.uconn.edu/econ_wpapers/200236
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