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Behavioral Aspects of Institutional Design

The research projects aimed at studying behavioral aspects of institutional design, with the starting premise that an institution is a formal centralized structure. There are numerous examples of such structures: creating a centralized public procurement, creating spectrum license auctions, allocating school children to schools, matching kidney patients to donors.

Project manager
Project participants
Tommy Andersson, Lunds universitet

Depending on how the formal rules are structured around the institution participants’ behavior will be affected by strategic or dynamic aspects. This project aims at studying two aspects: (a) given a set of specific goals set by the policymakers, how shall formal centralized institutions be optimally designed, and (b) which behavioral aspects follow from a specific centralized institution. 

The project was financed by the Ragnar Söderberg Foundation.