We examine how three different communication processes operating through social networks are affected by homophily … on repeated averaging of neighbors' information and Markovian diffusion processes such as the Google random surfer model … friendship networks from the Adolescent Health dataset. …

networks for which there is a convergence of beliefs. Finally, we survey some recent structural results on the speed of …

The explosion in online social networks motivates an enquiry into their structure and their welfare effects. A central … feature of these networks is information sharing: online social networks lower the cost of getting information from others …. These lower costs affect the attractiveness of individual search vis-a-vis a reliance on social networks. The paper reports …

This paper presents a model of collusive bargaining networks. Given a status quo network, game is played in two stages … to exist. In the networks with relatively few monopolized sellers, sharing leads to a complete reallocation of surplus to …

We study a dynamic model of opinion formation in social networks. In our model, boundedly rational agents update …

Which types of networks favor the diffusion of innovations in the sense that an innovation whose intrinsic benefits are … game model of the diffusion of innovations. Here we study this question for a class of irregular random networks, Small … fraction of a large population? For deterministic and regular networks there are characterizations, based on a coordination …