) embedded in a network have to decide how much effort they exert in some activity (say education). We show that the more central … minority agents are in the social network, the more they assimilate to the majority culture. We also show that denser networks … tend to favor assimilation so that, for example, it is easier to assimilate in a complete network than in a star …

We study a coordination game among agents on a network, who choose whether or not to take an action in an uncertain … coordination set if and only if the network is balanced, i.e., the average degree of each subnetwork is no larger than the average … degree of the network. Comparative statics exercises as well as welfare properties are investigated. In particular, we show …

networks form, the impact of network structure on agents' outcomes, and the evolution of networks over time. For this purpose …, we combine a network game introduced by Ballester et al. [2006], where the Nash equilibrium action of each agent is … proportional to her Bonacich centrality, with an endogenous network formation process. Links are formed on the basis of agents …

networks in the spatial diffusion of local economic shocks. We develop a network model that shows how a district's level of … prosperity is related to its position in the network. The network model's first-order conditions are used to derive an … underlying network structure can inform us about the potential gains from policies that increase economic activity in specific …