Does stake size matter in trust games?
Abstract
In a trust game conducted in rural Bangladesh, the proportion of money sent decreased significantly with the stake size. Still, even with very large stakes few followed the conventional economic prediction and sent nothing.
University
Göteborg University. School of Business, Economics and Law
Collections
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Date
2004Author
Martinsson, Peter
Mahmud, Minhaj
Johansson-Stenman, Olof
Keywords
Trust; trust game; stake size; social capital; field experiment
Publication type
Report
ISSN
1403-2465
Series/Report no.
Working Papers in Economics, nr 140
Language
en