in the context of a network formation game (where links can be interpreted as friendships in a social network … acquiring the information with others) through a percolation process over the equilibrium network. Privacy concerns are modeled …

these issues using a model of (Bayesian) learning over a social network. Agents learn rapidly from and may also have … environment changes sufficiently rapidly, any network consisting of just strong links will do only a little better than random …

linked fields. Our analysis uses 1.8 million U.S. patents and their citation properties to map the innovation network and its … strength. Past innovation network structures are calculated using citation patterns across technology classes during 1975 …-1994. The interaction of this pre-existing network structure with patent growth in upstream technology fields has strong …

linked fields. Our analysis uses 1.8 million U.S. patents and their citation properties to map the innovation network and its … strength. Past innovation network structures are calculated using citation patterns across technology classes during 1975 …-1994. The interaction of this pre-existing network structure with patent growth in upstream technology fields has strong …

{private signal} correlated with the underlying state, they exchange information over the induced \textit{communication network} until … some additional conditions, also only if) in the induced communication network most agents are a short distance away from … response, it is an equilibrium when the communication network induces asymptotic learning. Moreover, we contrast equilibrium …

underlying state, they exchange information over the induced communication network until taking an (irreversible) action. We …, also only if) in the induced communication network most agents are a short distance away from “information hubs,” which … equilibrium when the communication network induces asymptotic learning. Moreover, we contrast equilibrium behavior with a socially …

Crowdsourcing is an emerging technology where innovation and production are sourced out to the public through an open … fact that the exact difficulties of innovation tasks may not be known in advance, so tasks that require high-skill labor …

establishing the presence of a financial network externality in the process of network formation. We then illustrate how the …