Scandinavian Working Papers in Economics
Working Papers,
Lund University, Department of Economics
No 2007:1: Collective Trust Behavior
Håkan Holm () and Paul Nystedt ()
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Håkan Holm: Department of Economics, Lund University, Postal: Department of Economics, School of Economics and Management, Lund University, Box 7082, S-220 07 Lund, Sweden
Paul Nystedt: Department of Economics and Management, Linköping University, Postal: Department of Economics and Management, Linköping University, S-58183 Linköping , Sweden
Abstract: This paper investigates trust in situations, where decision-makers are large groups and the decision-mechanism is collective, by developing a game to study trust behavior. Theories from behavioral economics and psychology suggest that trust in such situations may differ from individual trust. Experimental results here reveal a large difference in trust but not in trustworthiness between the individual and collective setting. Furthermore, an artefactual field experiment captures the determinants of collective trust behavior among two cohorts in the Swedish population. One result is that beliefs about the other and the own group are strongly associated with collective trustworthiness and trust behavior.
Keywords: Collective Trust; Voting; Experiment; Beliefs
58 pages, December 20, 2006
- Published as
- Håkan Holm and Paul Nystedt, (2010), 'Collective Trust Behavior', Scandinavian Journal of Economics, vol 112, no 1, pages 25-53
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