among firms that undertake innovation through knowledge use rather than through knowledge generation. …The beneficial effects of innovation for firms' performance and competitiveness are well documented, but it has been … suggested in recent years that innovation regimes differ between advanced and emerging economies. While advanced economies rely …

extent to which the knowledge production of a multilateral development bank can reach its beneficiaries. We find that IDB …

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 …

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 …Regarding complex networks, one of the most relevant problems is to understand and to explore community structure. In …

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

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