We survey the literature on the economic consequences of the structure of social networks. We develop a taxonomy of … "macro" and "micro" characteristics of social interaction networks and discuss both the theoretical and empirical findings … discuss the challenges of accounting for the endogeneity of networks in assessing the relationship between the patterns of …

We survey the literature on the economic consequences of the structure of social networks. We develop a taxonomy of … "macro" and "micro" characteristics of social interaction networks and discuss both the theoretical and empirical findings … discuss the challenges of accounting for the endogeneity of networks in assessing the relationship between the patterns of …

In this chapter, I provide an overview of research on social networks and their role in shaping behavior and economic … outcomes. I include discussion of empirical and theoretical analyses of the role of social networks in markets and exchange …, models of network formation, models for the statistical analysis of social networks, as well as community detection. …

We examine the formation of networks among a set of players whose payoffs depend on the structure of the network. We … links. We characterize the networks that are supported under these variations and show how each of the above aspects is …

We examine the formation of networks among a set of players whose payoffs depend on the structure of the network. We … links. We characterize the networks that are supported under these variations and show how each of the above aspects is …

This paper studies the formation of networks among individuals. The focus is on the compatibility of overall societal … subject, and also provides new results on the existence of pairwise-stable networks and the relationship between pairwise … stable and efficient networks in a variety of contexts and under several definitions of efficiency. …

We analyze the formation of networks among individuals. In particular, we examine the existence of networks that are … stable networks one can restrict focus on a component-wise egalitarian allocation of value. We show that when such strongly … stable networks exist they coincide with the set of efficient networks (those maximizing the total productive value). We show …

features that have been found to characterize large socially generated networks. Moreover, we derive the distribution of degree … lower tail may exhibit substantial curvature, just as in observed networks. We then fit the model to data from six networks …. Besides offering a close fit of these diverse networks, the model allows us to impute the relative importance of search versus …

We examine the formation of networks among a set of players whose payoffs depend on the structure of the network. We … links. We characterize the networks that are supported under these variations and show how each of the above aspects is …