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The Formation of Networks with Transfers among Players
Jackson, Matthew O.; Bloch, Francis - 2004
We examine the formation of networks among a set of players whose payoffs depend on the structure of the network. We … links. We characterize the networks that are supported under these variations and show how each of the above aspects is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011324957
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Divide and Conquer: Noisy Communication in Networks, Power, and Wealth Distribution
Perez, Wilson - 2004
In a society composed of a ruler and its citizens: what are the determinants of the political equilibrium between these two? This paper approaches this problem as a game played between a ruler who has to decide the distribution of the aggregate income and a group of agents/citizens who have the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011324912
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Stable organizations with externalities
Currarini, Sergio - 2002
We study the stability properties of organizations in partition function games, describing cooperative situations with externalities. An organization is defined as a group of agents, together with a set of bilateral relations, formally, a connected graph. Because of the presence of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335721
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(Anti-) coordination in networks
Kovarik, Jaromir; Mengel, Friederike; Romero, José Gabriel - 2010
We study (anti-) coordination problems in networks in a laboratory experiment. Partici- pants interact with their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272506
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Under-connected and over-connected networks
Hellmann, Tim; Buechel, Berno - 2009
Since the seminal contribution of Jackson & Wolinsky 1996 [A Strategic Model of Social and Economic Networks, JET 71 …, 44-74] it has been widely acknowledged that the formation of social networks exhibits a general conflict between … general results that relate situations of positive externalities with stable networks that cannot be too dense in a well …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010279423
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Game theory and international environmental co-operation: A survey with an application to the Kyoto-Protocol
Finus, Michael - 2000
First, the paper lays out the fun-damental assumptions underlying the game theoretical analysis of international environmental problems. Second it summarises important findings which help to explain the difficulties of co-operation and discusses remedies. Chapter 3 looks at measures to avoid...
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Allocation Rules for Network Games
Jackson, Matthew O. - 2003
alternative network structures (not just sub-networks) can and should influence the allocation of value among players on any given …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011325073
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Networks of commons
İlkiliç, Rahmi - 2008
A tragedy of the commons appears when the users of a common resource have incentives to exploit it more than the socially efficient level. We analyze the situation when the tragedy of the commons is embedded in a network of users and sources. Users play a game of extractions, where they decide...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270955
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Stochastic stability in the best shot game
Boncinelli, Leonardo; Pin, Paolo - 2010
The best shot game applied to networks is a discrete model of many processes of contribution to local public goods. It …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272469
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Cournot competition on a network of markets and firms
Ilkiliç, Rahmi - 2009
Suppose markets and firms are connected in a bi-partite network, where firms can only supply to the markets they are connected to. Firms compete a la Cournot and decide how much to supply to each market they have a link with. We assume that markets have linear demand functions and firms have...
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