time and effort costs for participants. Therefore, this dissertation takes an economic perspective on the network formation …

current world trade negotiating round.The current thesis uses a network formation approach to analyze the incentives to …

. Network positions are supposed to be important for both, consumers and suppliers. Examples are R&D collaborations, strategic … networks change when agents follow incentives for profitable network positions? This question serves as a leitmotif for this … thesis.First, it is addressed how to formally model situations where individuals purposefully alter the network structure …

various economic settings. First, I develop a model of social network formation with heterogeneous agents and incomplete … many links to one another, and form a dense core structure in the network, while outsiders coordinate their links by …, that is shared along the network. Individuals may choose to provide a public good that is not excludable among their peers …

This paper studies the properties of convexity (concavity) and strategic complements (substitutes) in network formation … shown that there always exists a pairwise stable network as long as the utility function of each player satisfies convexity … in own links and strategic complements. For network societies with a profile of utility functions satisfying concavity in …

werden und die multiple Möglichkeiten besitzen, andere VCG im Netzwerk zu erreichen. Basierend auf den Analysen leitet der …) hold in their syndication network and determines the effect that network positions have on generating deal flow quantity … and quality. Network closure (Coleman 1988) emphasizes that cohesive network structures facilitate cooperative behavior of …

Instrumentariums der evolutionären Spieltheorie. Aufbauend auf den Ergebnissen zum Verhalten der Nutzer von P2P-Netzwerken wird in …