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Alexander W. Cappelen

Professor of Economics · Norwegian School of Economics (NHH)

Professor of Economics at the Norwegian School of Economics (NHH) and Deputy Director of the Centre of Excellence FAIR. His interests span behavioral, experimental and public economics, social choice theory and distributive justice.

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Published Journal of Political Economy Published Jun 2026

Linking Social and Personal Preferences: Theory and Experiment

William R. Zame · Bertil Tungodden · Erik Ø. Sørensen · Shachar Kariv · Alexander W. Cappelen

This paper asks whether an individual's attitude toward risk in the personal domain (choices affecting only oneself) can be linked to that same individual's attitude toward risk in the social domain …

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