In this paper, we connect the social network theory on centrality measures to the economic theory of preferences and … different networks. The famous degree measure assigns to every position in a weighted network the sum of the weights of all … links with its neighbours. A crucial property of a preference relation over network positions is neutrality to ordinary risk …

A symmetric network consists of a set of positions and a set of bilateral links between these positions. Examples of … symmetric network we define a cooperative transferable utility game that measures the power of each coalition of positions in … the network. Applying the Shapley value to this game yields a network power measure, the beta-measure, which reflects the …

Agents participating in different kind of organizations, usually take different positions in some network structure …. Two well-known network structures are hierarchies and communication networks. We give an overview of the most common … models of communication and hierarchy restrictions in cooperative games, compare different network structures with each other …