, political, and family networks for 1,290 large East Asian firms. We find that professional networks buoyed performance during … the 2008 financial crisis; political and family networks did not. We provide evidence that information access is a key … mechanism underlying the effect of professional networks. A one standard deviation improvement to a firm's professional network …

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

This paper considers the use of ‘long-run cost functions’ for congested networks in solving second-best network …

European Union countries, specifically analyzing four of the prioritized Trans-European Networks. …

second-best taxrule for this problem is derived for general static networks, so thatthe solution presented is valid for any … 'virtual links', the analysis can be applied rather easilyalso to a broader class of second-best problems in static networks. …

We develop a model of strategic networks that captures two distinctive features of interfirm collaboration: bilateral … 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 …

pricingschemes bestudied from the perspective of the theory of the second best. Thesecomplications include pricing in networks …