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 …

We study two n-player sequential network formation games with externalities. Link formation is tied to simultaneous …. -- Efficiency ; Bargaining Protocol ; Counterproposals ; Network Formation ; Transfers ; Externalities ; Groups ; Coalitions …

, I provide a proposition that generalizes the results of these two models by stating that: (i) Strict Nash network … network as in Billand et al (2011). This proposition requires that a certain restriction on link formation cost (called …

neighbors in the social network. The same activities often exert externalities that cumulate in "stocks" affecting agents … network of social relations, as agents display strategic substitution with distance-two neighbors. We show that behavior is … behavior and key-players tend to move to the periphery of the network, and we discuss the effect of close-knit communities and …

Network structure has a significant role in determining the outcomes of many socioeconomic relationships, including the … antagonistic ones. In this paper we study a situation in which agents, embedded in a network, simultaneously play interrelated … bilateral contest games with their neighbors. Interrelatedness of contests induces complex local and global network effects. We …

This paper studies a noncooperative model of network formation. Built upon the two-way flow model of Bala and Goyal …

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 …

Most literature in strategic network formation shows that there is a substantial tension between stability and … (2000a) and De Jaegher and Kamphorst (2015). Specifically, I show that every link receiver in a Nash network serves as an …

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 …