@misc{10481/31588,
year = {2013},
month = {7},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10481/31588},
abstract = {Limited attention has been devoted on how (real-life) social networks are elicited and mapped, even less from the viewpoint of mechanism design. This paper surveys the few mechanisms that have been proposed by the experimental literature to this purpose. These mechanisms differ in their incentive structure, as well as in the means of reward they employ. We compare these elicitation devices on the basis of the estimated differences in the characteristics of the induced networks, such as the number of (mutual) links, correspondence and accuracy. Our main conclusion is that the elicited network architecture is itself dependent on the nature (and the structure) of the incentives. This, in turn, should provide the social scientist with guidelines on the most appropriate device to use, depending on the research objectives.},
organization = {Financial support from the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science (ECO2012-34928, ECO2010-17049), MIUR (PRIN 20103S5RN3
002), Generalitat Valenciana (Research Projects Gruposo3/086), Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Econ ómicas (IVIE) Junta de Andaluc  ía-Excellence (P07-SEJ-02547), and Fundaci on Ram ón Areces (R+D 2011) .},
publisher = {Universidad de Granada. Departamento de Teoría e Historia Económica},
keywords = {Social networks},
keywords = {Experimental economics},
title = {A guided tour to (real-life) social network elicitation},
author = {Brañas Garza, Pablo and Cobo-Reyes, Ramón and Jiménez, Natalia and Ponti, Giovanni},
}