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The following multilateral distribution rounds will be structured as follows:

  1. Each participant will begin the round with 100 points. Each sender will be given the knowledge of what the distributor from their group sent to their recipient in the previous bilateral distribution task, as well as the average amount sent by all players in this session.
  2. Each sender will independently decide how many of their 100 points to send to the distributor. Each sender will also input the amount of points they expect to be returned to them from the distributor. If this number is within 10 points they will earn an additional 20 points for that round.
  3. The distributor will receive triple the summation of the points sent by each sender. For example, if each sender sends 2 points to the distributor, the distributor will have been sent 4 points total from the 2 senders. These 4 points will be tripled and the distributor will receive 12 points.
  4. The distributor will decide how much of the available points they would like to keep for themselves
  5. The distributor will then decide how many points to redistribute from the remaining the allocated points. The distributor will see two boxes, the percentage of the remaining points the distributor would like to return to each sender should be inputted into the corresponding box for each sender. The total of these two boxes must equal 100%
  6. All senders will be notified of the amount of points returned to them. Senders will also know how many points the distributor kept. Each sender will have no knowledge of the amount sent or returned to the other senders.
  7. At the end of the round a random number will be drawn between one and three.
  8. After groups have been reshuffled steps 1-6 are repeated with the new group until a three is drawn again. Each distributor will only play in the role of the distributor for one group. At this point groups will be shuffled again and you will repeat steps 1-6 with your final group.
  9. After the final group play has finished due to a random draw of the number 3, the round selected for payment from each group will be displayed and your total take-home earnings will be calculated. Your participation fee will be included in this value.



Please note that each round is independent so points do not transfer between rounds.

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