We examine the formation of networks among a set of players whose payoffs depend on the structure of the network. We … network or only on the link itself. A final aspect is whether or not players can pay other players to refrain from forming … related either to accounting for a specific type of externality, or to dealing with the combinatorial nature of network …

Previous allocation rules for network games, such as the Myerson Value, implicitly or explicitly take the network … structure as fixed. In many situations, however, the network structure can be altered by players. This means that the value of … alternative network structures (not just sub-networks) can and should influence the allocation of value among players on any given …

objectives here are to model the structure and strategy of interactions prevailing at any point in time as a directed network and … to address the following open question in the theory of social and economic network formation: given the rules of network … networks, and the trembles of nature, what network and coalitional dynamics are likely to emerge and persist. Our main …

Imperfect private monitoring in an infinitely repeated discounted Prisoner’s Dilemma played on a communication network …’s history throughout the network. The delay in receiving this information requires the players to be more patient to sustain the … same level of cooperation as in a complete network, although a Folk Theorem obtains when the players are patient enough …

small world network. This paper develops a strategic network formation model where agents have heterogeneous knowledge of … the network: cognizant agents know the whole network, while ignorant ones are less knowledgeable. For a broad range of … have higher betweenness centrality: they are the brokers who connect different parts of the network. Ignorant agents cause …

connected and undirected network. Players observe their immediate neighbors’ behavior only, but communicate over time the … repeated game’s history truthfully throughout the network. The Folk Theorem extends to this setup, although for a range of … produces a network result; namely, the level of cooperation in this setup depends on the network’s diameter, and not on its …

neighbours in a fixed network to play a bilateral (anti-) coordination game. Our main treatment variable is the extent to which … players are heterogeneous in the number of connections (neighbors) they have. Other network characteristics are held constant …