We develop and analyze a tractable empirical model for strategic network formation that can be estimated with data from … a single network at a single point in time. We model the network formation as a sequential process where in each period …, the characteristics of the potential partner, and on features of the current state of the network, such as whether the two …

linked fields. Our analysis uses 1.8 million U.S. patents and their citation properties to map the innovation network and its … strength. Past innovation network structures are calculated using citation patterns across technology classes during 1975 …-1994. The interaction of this pre-existing network structure with patent growth in upstream technology fields has strong …

This paper presents and structurally estimates a model of endogenous network formation and legislative activity of … of Congress as exogenously given and instead embed it in a model of endogenous network formation useful for developing …

Network connections within MNCs seem to improve export market shares for Asian affiliates of those MNCs. In particular …

financial institutions. Focusing on a multi sector economy linked through a supply network, we show how structural properties of … the supply network determine both whether aggregate volatility disappears as the number of sectors increases (i … aggregate output from its mean) to sector-specific volatility and to the structural properties of the supply network …

provided by the existing network. Nearly 40 years ago, Mohring [1965] suggested this logic for planning optimal highway …

I propose a network/search view of international trade in differentiated products. I present evidence that supports the …

We characterize the evolution over time of a network of credit relations among financial agents as a system of coupled … network of liabilities among agents. The average level of risk diversification of the agents coincides with the density of … links in the network. In addition to a process of diffusion of financial distress, we also consider a discrete process of …