The importance of social and economic networks has meanwhile been widely acknowledged throughout social sciences … about job openings, bargaining power etc. Given these beneficial aspects of networks, the stability is in question: How do … networks change when agents follow incentives for profitable network positions? This question serves as a leitmotif for this …

Since the seminal contribution of Jackson & Wolinsky 1996 [A Strategic Model of Social and Economic Networks, JET 71 …, 44-74] it has been widely acknowledged that the formation of social networks exhibits a general conflict between … results that relate situations of positive externalities with stable networks that cannot be "too dense" in a well …

and the implications for the structure of pairwise stable networks. First, different definitions of convexity (concavity … own links and strategic complements, a local uniqueness property of pairwise stable networks is derived. The results do …

Online Consumer-to-Consumer Communication Networks are characterized by informational and social benefits as well as …

We study a retail benchmarking approach to determine access prices forinterconnected networks. Instead of considering … i pays to network j as a linear functionof the marginal costs and the retail prices set by both networks. In thecase of …