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SUMMARY:Behavioral Network Formation - Michael Kearns (University of Penns
 ylvania)
DTSTART:20110516T133000Z
DTEND:20110516T143000Z
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CONTACT:Elena Yudovina
DESCRIPTION:For a number of years\, we have been conducting human-subject 
 experiments at Penn examining economic and game-theoretic behavior in netw
 orked settings. While the diversity of both collective tasks and network s
 tructures studied has been considerable\, one of the greatest artificialit
 ies of these experiments has been the exogenous selection of the network\,
  as opposed to the network being created by the subjects themselves.\n\nIn
  this talk I will report on our most recent experiments\, which constitute
  one of the first and largest behavioral investigations of a network forma
 tion game\, in which subjects pay to build a network while attempting to s
 olve a distributed biased voting problem. After giving a brief overview of
  our overall experimental agenda\, I will focus on the voting and network 
 formation games\, and some surprising findings they elicit.\n\nJoint work 
 with Stephen Judd and Eugene Vorobeychik.
LOCATION:MR5\, Centre for Mathematical Sciences\, Wilberforce Road\, Cambr
 idge
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