Preferences and Social Influence

Chaim Fershtman and Uzi Segal

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2018, vol. 10, issue 3, 124-42

Abstract: Interaction between decision makers may affect their preferences. We consider a setup in which each individual is characterized by two sets of preferences: his unchanged core preferences and his behavioral preferences. Each individual has a social influence function that determines his behavioral preferences given his core preferences and the behavioral preferences of other individuals in his group. Decisions are made according to behavioral preferences. The paper considers different properties of these social influence functions and their effect on equilibrium behavior.

JEL-codes: D11 D83 D91 Z13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
Note: DOI: 10.1257/mic.20160190
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