relation: https://publications.ut-capitole.fr/id/eprint/21625/
title: Competition for status creates superstars: An experiment on public good provision and network formation
creator: Offerman, Theo
creator: Schram, Arthur
creator: Van Leeuwen, Boris
subject: B- ECONOMIE ET FINANCE
description: We investigate a mechanism that facilitates the provision of public goods in a network formation game. We show how competition for status encourages a core player to realize efficiency gains for the entire group. In a laboratory experiment we systematically examine the effects of group size and status rents. The experimental results provide very clear support for a competition for status dynamic that predicts when, and if so which, repeated game equilibrium is reached. Two control treatments allow us to reject the possibility that the supergame effects we observe are driven by social motives.
publisher: IAST working paper
date: 2014-12
type: Monograph
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: text
language: en
identifier: https://publications.ut-capitole.fr/id/eprint/21625/1/wp_iast_1416.pdf
identifier:   Offerman, Theo <https://www.idref.fr/050256440>, Schram, Arthur and Van Leeuwen, Boris  (2014) Competition for status creates superstars: An experiment on public good provision and network formation.  IAST working paper, n. 14-16, Toulouse     
relation: http://iast.fr/pub/28902
language: en