@misc{10481/31480,
year = {2005},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10481/31480},
abstract = {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.},
organization = {Pablo Brañas-Garza acknowledges
financial support from CICYT-SEJ 2004-07554/ECON and Fundación Ramón Areces. Natalia Jiménez acknowledges financial support by the Generalitat Valenciana under the project CTBPRB/2003/71. Pablo Brañas-Garza, Ramón Cobo-Reyes and Natalia Jiménez acknowledge financial support by Centro de Estudios Andaluces I+D 2006.},
publisher = {Universidad de Granada. Departamento de Teoría e Historia Económica},
keywords = {Friendship},
keywords = {Networks},
keywords = {Experiments},
keywords = {Other-regarding preferences},
title = {An experimental device to elicit soical networks},
author = {Brañas Garza, Pablo and Cobo-Reyes, Ramón and Jiménez, Natalia and Ponti, Giovanni},
}