An experimental device to elicit soical networks Brañas Garza, Pablo Cobo-Reyes, Ramón Jiménez, Natalia Ponti, Giovanni Friendship Networks Experiments Other-regarding preferences This paper proposes an original mechanism to elicit latent social net- works. Subjects are invited to reve al their friends’ name and surname, together with a score measuring the strength of relationship. According to the mechanism, subjects are rewarded of a fi xed price either a) when they do not name anybody or b) when the scores of a randomly selected (bidirectional) link are su ffi ciently close. We test the mechanism’s perfor- mance in the fi eld. Our main results are: i) a very large percentage of links (75%) were corresponded. ii) the mechanism largely captures strong friendship relations and practically ignores weak relations. A simple model of friend—regarding preferences is developed to explain this evidence. 2014-04-30T08:47:21Z 2014-04-30T08:47:21Z 2005 info:eu-repo/semantics/report Brañas-Garza, P. An experimental device to elicit soical networks. Universidad de Granada. Departamento de Teoría e Historia Económica (2005). (The Papers; 05/19). [http://hdl.handle.net/10481/31480] http://hdl.handle.net/10481/31480 eng The Papers;05/19 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 License Universidad de Granada. Departamento de Teoría e Historia Económica