emerging small world.An exploration of the micro aspects of the network yields three findings: one, the average number of co …

We present a multi-country theory of economic growth in which countries are connected by a network of mutual knowledge … industrial revolution. Knowledge diffusion through a Small World network produces an extraordinary diversity of individual growth …

In this paper, a set of neural network (NN) models is developed to compute short-term forecasts of regional employment …

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

into account the potential externalities networks produce. Once social ties are in place, these externalities shape the … that the individual's incentives depend on the architecture of the network as well as on the position of the individual … within the network. In particular, when an efficient interaction requires players to mutually cooperate, efficient social …

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 …

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. …

European Union countries, specifically analyzing four of the prioritized Trans-European Networks.<P> This discussion paper led …

to invest in R&D, and the architecture of collaboration networks. In the absence of firm rivalry, the complete network …, under strong market rivalry the complete network is stable, but intermediate levels of collaboration and asymmetric networks …We develop a model of strategic networks that captures two distinctive features of interfirm collaboration: bilateral …