particular it is important to define the network organization and the functions associated to the different network partitions … relevant network components as communities. The method is also useful to represent the network community structure, especially … the network hierarchical structure. The application of the methodologies is based on the Italian interlocking directorship …

restricted through a network of existing relationships and traders bargain over the division of available gains from trade along … point of a set of intuitive value function equations and study efficiency and the relationship between network structure and … ; Middlemen ; Network …

particular, if the linking costs are not too low and not too high, at least one such network is pairwise stable. Moreover, in … explanation for many core-periphery structures observed in real life social networks. -- Network Formation ; Heterogeneity …

Financial network structure is an important determinant of systemic risk. This paper examines how the U.S. interbank … network evolved over a long and important period that included two key events: the founding of the Federal Reserve and the …, initially reducing overall network concentration. The network became even more focused on Fed cities during the Depression, as …

Recent research in the field of network economics has shown how explicitly modelling the network structure of social … empirical evidence. Despite their critical importance to many environmental problems, network structures and dynamics have been …

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the effects on the Italian directorship network of the corporate governance … number of interlocking directorships decreases in 2012, the reduction takes place mainly at the periphery of the network … whereas the network core is stable, allowing the most connected companies to keep their strategic position. …

This paper presents a model of collusive bargaining networks. Given a status quo network, game is played in two stages …: in the first stage, pairs of sellers form the network by signing two-sided contracts that allow sellers to use … equilibrium exists, sharing always generates maximum social welfare and eliminates the frictions created by the network structure …

maximize it. Through the links in the collaboration network, researchers create spillovers not only to their direct coauthors … possibly overlapping projects. We bring our model to the data by analyzing the coauthorship network of economists registered in … the coauthorship network. Moreover, we analyze funding instruments for individual researchers as well as research …

network that connects them. We find that information supports cooperation by increasing trust between players, and obtain the … 'radius of trust': an endogenous network listing the potentially cooperative relationships between pairs of players in a … community. We identify two aspects of trust, which relate to the network structure in different ways. Where trust depends on the …