Collective Trust Behavior

Hakan Holm and Paul Nystedt ()
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Paul Nystedt: Department of Economics and Management, Linköping University, Postal: Department of Economics and Management, Linköping University, S-58183 Linköping , Sweden

No 2007:1, Working Papers from Lund University, Department of Economics

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 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C72 C90 C93 D70 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 58 pages
Date: 2006-12-20
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cbe, nep-cdm, nep-evo, nep-exp, nep-pol and nep-soc
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Published in Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2010, pages 25-53.

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