This paper takes a network perspective t oinvestigate how rural households in developing countries form the links …) matter for link formation. An estimation procedure of a network formation model à la Jackson and Wolinsky (1996) is proposed … link they also consider the wealth and the position of indirect contacts. The network externalities from indirect contacts …

cooperative networks in micro and nanotechnologies. Our objective is twofold. First, using the statistical tools of the social … network analysis, we characterise the structure of the R&D collaborations established between firms. Second, we investigate … put forward the existence of network effects alongside other microeconomic determinants of cooperation. Our findings …

In this note, we extend the Goyal and Joshi's model of network of collaboration in oligopoly to multi-market situations …. We examine the incentive of firms to form links and the architectures of the resulting equilibrium networks in this … setting. We also present some results on efficient networks. …

emerge at equilibrium. We define the notion of coalitional network to represent a network and a coalition structure, where … the network speciÖes the nature of the relationship each individual has with his coalition members and with individuals … outside his coalition. To predict the coalitional networks that are going to emerge at equilibrium we propose the concept of …

communication network. We provide an explicit link between players' preferences and the equilibrium strategic communication networks … they communicate. Apart from some specific cases, the equilibrium communication networks are quite complex despite our … simple one-dimensional description of preference heterogeneity. In general, strategic communication networks cannot be …

This paper analyzes the effect of immigrants' networks on the decision of individual firms to starting exporting to the …

friends of their friends. I explicitly take into account the structure of the community network to show that also the … the issue of link formation and rule out the potential endogeneity of network, reconfirming that indirect exposure matters …

system based on market demand, fare policy and network restrictions, we present our descriptive results coming from …

apparently similar networks, on which much data were collected, has given us an opportunity to investigate the factors explaining …