Myopic or farsighted? An experiment on network formation

Georg Kirchsteiger, Marco Mantovani, Ana Mauleon and Vincent Vannetelbosch

No 2011007, LIDAM Discussion Papers CORE from Université catholique de Louvain, Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE)

Abstract: Pairwise stability (Jackson and Wolinsky, 1996) is the standard stability concept in network formation. It assumes myopic behavior of the agents in the sense that they do not forecast how others might react to their actions. Assuming that agents are farsighted, related stability concepts have been proposed. We design a simple network formation experiment to test these theories. Our results provide support for farsighted stability and strongly reject the idea of myopic behavior.

Keywords: Experiment; myopic and farsighted stability and network formation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C91 C92 D85 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011-02-01
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