Social connectedness improves co-ordination on individually costly, efficient outcomes

Giuseppe Attanasi, Astrid Hopfensitz, Emiliano Lorini () and Frédéric Moisan ()
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Emiliano Lorini: IRIT-LILaC - Logique, Interaction, Langue et Calcul - IRIT - Institut de recherche en informatique de Toulouse - UT Capitole - Université Toulouse Capitole - UT - Université de Toulouse - UT2J - Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès - UT - Université de Toulouse - UT3 - Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier - UT - Université de Toulouse - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - Toulouse INP - Institut National Polytechnique (Toulouse) - UT - Université de Toulouse - TMBI - Toulouse Mind & Brain Institut - UT2J - Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès - UT - Université de Toulouse - UT3 - Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier - UT - Université de Toulouse, CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Frédéric Moisan: CAM - University of Cambridge [UK], IRIT-LILaC - Logique, Interaction, Langue et Calcul - IRIT - Institut de recherche en informatique de Toulouse - UT Capitole - Université Toulouse Capitole - UT - Université de Toulouse - UT2J - Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès - UT - Université de Toulouse - UT3 - Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier - UT - Université de Toulouse - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - Toulouse INP - Institut National Polytechnique (Toulouse) - UT - Université de Toulouse - TMBI - Toulouse Mind & Brain Institut - UT2J - Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès - UT - Université de Toulouse - UT3 - Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier - UT - Université de Toulouse

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Abstract: We study the impact of social ties on behavior in two types of asymmetric coordination games. Social ties are varied by making players interact with partners from different ingroups (fellow members of their own sports team, members of their sports club, students of their university). Subjective social ties are further measured by direct questionnaires. We find that smaller and more salient in-groups lead to significantly more group bene- ficial choices. The same effect is observed for players that report high values of their subjective social ties. We discuss the implication of these results for theories assuming that socially tied individuals follow some group beneficial reasoning.

Keywords: Social ties; Group identity; Coordination; Experiment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016-11
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Published in European Economic Review, 2016, 90 (90 - 2016), pp.86 - 106. ⟨10.1016/j.euroecorev.2016.02.006⟩

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DOI: 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2016.02.006

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