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Social motives in network formation: an experiment (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
van Dolder, D., & Buskens, V. Social motives in network formation: an experiment. Presented at 2009 International Conference on Game Theory for Networks (GameNets 2009)

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. I... Read More about Social motives in network formation: an experiment.

Commitment in symmetric contests (2009)
Journal Article
Possajennikov, A. (2009). Commitment in symmetric contests. Economics Bulletin, 29(1),

The paper proves that in two-player logit form symmetric contests with concave success function, commitment to a
particular strategy does not increase a player's payoff, while in contests with more than two players it does. The paper also provides a... Read More about Commitment in symmetric contests.