I examine a search model a la' Burdett and Judd (1983). Consumers are embedded in a consumers network, they may costly … equilibria consumers search less frequently in denser networks. Finally, when search costs are low the expected price and the … social welfare increase as the consumers network becomes denser. These results are reverse when search costs are high. …

In a circular city model, I consider network design and pricing decisions for a single fast transport connection that … faces competition from a slower but better accessible transport mode. To access the fast transport network individuals have …

This paper examines how a radical technological innovation affects alliance formation of firms and subsequent network … firms’ existing network, we provide some insight into distant link formation with unknown partners, which contributes to our …

airports in an international network will typically not be regulated by the same authority. We present an analytical treatment … for a simple two-node network and some numerical results to illustrate our findings. Some main conclusions are that second …

for employees to work in co-ethnic firms. It argues that strong social networks and related high intra-group trust …

become networks of strategic collaboration and others don’t, we study link formation within European biopharmaceutical …

exploration of the micro aspects of the network yields three findings: one, the average number of co-authors is very small but …