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The Proof of the Gibbard-Satterthwaite Theorem Revisited

Svensson, Lars-Gunnar - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Ekonomihögskolan - 1999

argument (over the number of individuals). The proof of the theorem is further simplified when the voting rule is assumed to be …

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Collective Trust Behavior

Holm, Håkan; Nystedt, Paul - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Ekonomihögskolan - 2006

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....

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Do You Trust Your Brethren? Eliciting Trust Attitudes and Trust Behavior in a Tanzanian Congregation

Danielson, Anders; Holm, Hakan - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Ekonomihögskolan - 2004

The dominating subject pool in economic experiments is undergraduate university students. Reasons for this include …

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Sealed Bid Auctions vs. Ascending Bid Auctions: An Experimental Study

Andersson, Tommy; Andersson, Christer; Andersson, Ola - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Ekonomihögskolan - 2010

This paper considers the sealed bid and ascending auction, which both identifies the minimum Walrasian equilibrium prices and where truthful preference revelation constitutes an equilibrium. Even though these auction formats share many theoretical properties, there are behavioral aspects that...

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Intra-Generational Trust - a Semi-Experimental Study of Trust Among Different Generations

Holm, Håkan; Nystedt, Paul - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Ekonomihögskolan - 2002

From a public database in Sweden we obtained a subject pool consisting of one group 20 years old and another group that was exactly 50 years older. The groups participated in a mail-based trust game. In the trust game the young cohort exhibited significantly more trust than the old cohort did....

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What’s in a Name? - An ethnical discrimination experiment

Holm, Håkan - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Ekonomihögskolan - 2000

This paper presents the results from an ethnical discrimination experiment that was conducted in one of Sweden’s most “problematic” cities with respect to the integration process of refugees. The subjects confronted three different bargaining games; one trust game, one social exclusion and...

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Stereotypes, Sex Discrimination and Paranoia - an experimental study

Holm, Håkan - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Ekonomihögskolan - 2000

We analyze results from two categories of experiments where the subjects received controlled signals about the sex of … their co-players. In a series of Battle of the Sexes experiments the subjects played more hawkish against women than against … men. The impact of the sex signal was most pronounced among female subjects. In the second category of experiments we …

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Setting the Anchor: Price Competition, Level-n Theory and Communication

Wengström, Erik - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Ekonomihögskolan - 2007

This paper analyzes communication from the viewpoint of the level-n theory of bounded rationality. It examines if communication can be understood by the effect it has on high-level types’ beliefs about the actions of simpleminded level-0 players. We present experimental evidence from a...

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Fairness and Promises for Sale

Holm, Håkan; Daielson, Anders - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Ekonomihögskolan - 2004

the individual and thereby assessing the limits of these fairness concerns. This study reports on Trust game experiments …

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Tropic Trust versus Nordic Trust: Experimental Evidence from Tanzania and Sweden

Danielson, Anders; Holm, Hakan J - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Ekonomihögskolan - 2003

Undergraduates in Tanzania and Sweden participated in one Trust game, one Dictator game, and answered a standard set of survey questions relating to trust. In both countries we detected a strong and significant relation between Dictator donations and proportions returned in Trust games, which...

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