We study an opinion formation game between a Designer and an Adversary. While the Designer creates the network, both these players can influence network nodes (agents) initially, with ties being broken in favor of the Designer. Final opinions of agents are a convex combination of own opinions...

In this paper we study the impact of multi-way means of communication on corruption by exploring the relationship between social media and corruption. Our cross-country analysis of over 150 countries shows that Facebook penetration (a proxy for social media) has a negative and economically...

A non-cooperative model of network formation is developed. Agents form links with others based on the cost of the link and its assessed benefit. Link formation is one-sided, i.e., agents can initiate links with other agents without their consent, provided the agent forming the link makes the...