SOCIAL COMPARISONS AND REFERENCE POINTS IN GAME-THEORETIC MODELS

This thesis analyzes how players' relative evaluation of the actions other agents choose affects individuals' strategic behavior, both in simultaneous and sequential-move games. First, in null importance of foregone options: generalizing social comparisons in sequential-move null (joint work with Ana Espinola-Arredondo), we examine a tractable theoretical model in which every individual compares other players' actions with respect to their...