Does stake size matter in trust games?

Economics Letters

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 365-369

  Johansson Stenman, Olof ^a   Mahmud, Minhaj ^a   Martinsson, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Field experiment; Social capital; Stake size; Trust; Trust game

Indexed keywords

EID: 22144470124     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2005.03.007     Document Type: Article

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