Social Interactions in a Synchronization Game

Aureo de Paula

No 277, Econometric Society 2004 Latin American Meetings from Econometric Society

Abstract: This paper analyzes and structurally estimates a synchronization game. Agents take part in an activity and benefit from the participation of others. Coordinated actions are fruit of correlated effects as well as endogenous interactions. Standard tools applied in optimal stopping problems for continuous parameter stochastic processes are used but the processes under study are endogenized by making their distribution dependent on the participation of the group. This setup allows for identifiability and separation of correlated and endogenous influences. The model is applied to data on military records for Union Army soldiers during the American

Keywords: Optimal stopping; social interactions; coordination; econometrics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C13 C70 D70 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004-08-11
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