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In Search of Stars: Network Formation among Heterogeneous Agents
Ule, Aljaž; Goeree, Jacob K.; Riedl, Arno - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2007
This paper reports results from a laboratory experiment on network formation among heterogeneous agents. The … for agents with lower linking costs or higher benefits to others. Furthermore, agents’ types may be common knowledge or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005423187
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Optimal Information Transmission in Organizations: Search and Congestion
Cabrales, Antonio; Arenas, Àlex; Díaz-Guilera, Albert; … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2004
We propose a stylized model of a problem-solving organization whose internal communication structure is given by a fixed network. Problems arrive randomly anywhere in this network and must find their way to their respective “specialized solvers” by relying on local information alone. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004990060
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A Role for Instructions
Valsecchi, Irene - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2005
knowledge: they do not require mutual understanding between the sender and the receiver as other forms of communication do. In … particular, the knowledge of both the team payoff function and the team organisation can be ordered according to hierarchical … derives the requirements in terms of knowledge of the members that follow from given structures of task assignment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005570323
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Coordination in Networks Formation: Experimental Evidence on Learning and Salience
Galizzi, Matteo; Bernasconi, Michele - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2005
We present experiments on repeated non-cooperative network formation games, based on Bala and Goyal (2000). We treat the one-way and the two-ways flow models, each for high and low link costs. The models show both multiple equilibria and coordination problems. We conduct experiments under...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005385417
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Myopic or Farsighted? An Experiment on Network Formation
Mantovani, Marco; Kirchsteiger, Georg; Mauleon, Ana; … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2011
agents are farsighted, related stability concepts have been proposed. We design a simple network formation experiment to test …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009131101
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Constrained School Choice: An Experimental Study
Haeringer, Guillaume; Calsamiglia, Caterina; Klijn, Flip - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2009
The literature on school choice assumes that families can submit a preference list over all the schools they want to be assigned to. However, in many real-life instances families are only allowed to submit a list containing a limited number of schools. Subjects' incentives are drastically...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005008015
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Theories of Diversity within Organisation Studies: Debates and Future Trajectories
Janssens, Maddy; Steyaert, Chris - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2003
Theories on diversity and diversity management within the field of Organisation Studies started to develop in the 80s, mainly under the influence of managerial reports pointing towards the increasing diversity of the future workforce. The purpose of this paper is to 1) review the existing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005385468
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Connections Among Farsighted Agents
Vannetelbosch, Vincent; Grandjean, Gilles; Mauleon, Ana - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2009
We study the stability of social and economic networks when players are farsighted. In particular, we examine whether the networks formed by farsighted players are different from those formed by myopic players. We adopt Herings, Mauleon and Vannetelbosch’s (Games and Economic Behavior,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005008046
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Network Formation with Endogenous Decay
Feri, Francesco - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2005
This paper considers a communication network characterized by an endogenous architecture and an imperfect transmission of information as in Bala and Goyal (2000). We propose a similar network's model with the difference that it is characterized by an endogenous rate of information decay....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005423133
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Assessing the Consequences of Natural Disasters on Production Networks: A Disaggregated Approach
Hallegatte, Stéphane; Henriet, Fanny - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2008
This article proposes a framework to investigate the consequences of natural disasters. This framework is based on the disaggregation of Input-Output tables at the business level, through the representation of the regional economy as a network of production units. This framework accounts for (i)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005423134