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Social Motives in Network Formation: An Experimental StudyDennie Van DolderErasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Erasmus School of Economics (ESE) Vincent BuskensUtrecht University - Department of Sociology/ICS; Erasmus School of Law, Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) May 1, 2009 International Conference on Game Theory for Networks, pp. 593-602, 2009 Abstract: Literature on network formation typically assumes that people create and remove relations as to maximize their outcome in the network. It is mostly neglected that people might also care about the outcomes of others when creating and removing links. In the current paper, we develop an experiment to investigate whether people show preferences that involve the outcomes of others during network formation. We find varying evidence for effects of social motives in the settings we compare in the experiment. In the final part of the paper, we discuss some explanations for these findings.
Number of Pages in PDF File: 10 Keywords: network formation, social motives, experiment JEL Classification: C92 Accepted Paper SeriesDate posted: October 23, 2009Suggested CitationContact Information
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