Are Results of Social- and Self-Image Concerns in Voluntary Contributions Game Similar?

Martin Siyaranamual ()

No 201501, Working Papers in Economics and Development Studies (WoPEDS) from Department of Economics, Padjadjaran University

Abstract: Social interactions may encourage the cooperative behaviours by triggering either self-image concerns (when one sees others’ decisions without being seen) or social-image concerns (when one’s decision is seen by others). A laboratory experiment is designed to compare these two concerns directly, using a four-players finitely repeated public goods experiment on two directed star networks, self-image and social-image networks. The comparison of the players voluntary contributions in both types of networks reveals that their contributing behaviours are statistically indistinguishable. However, the players who belong to the self-image network are more willing to conform with the group behaviours, meaning that they will increase (reduce) the contributions if theirs are below (above) their groups average. Furthermore, I also find evidence that the contributing behaviours are more stable in the self-image networks than in the social-image network.

Keywords: Social-image; Self-image; Directed network; Public good experiment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C92 D19 H41 Z13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 26 pages
Date: 2015-02, Revised 2015-02
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cbe, nep-cdm, nep-exp, nep-gth, nep-net and nep-soc
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