We generalize results on the monotocity of equilibria for network games with incomplete information.In those games players know the stochastic process of network formation and their own degree in the realized network, and decide an action depending on the strategic interaction in the network...

This paper considers a model of economic network characterized by an endogenous architecture and frictions in the relations among agents as described in Bala and Goyal (2000). We propose a similar network model with the difference that frictions in the relations among agents are endogenous....

This paper compares outsourcing processes in France, Italy and Japan in two types of firms, large firms and also small firms. It is shown that outsourcing has increased over the last two decades in both small and large firms in all three countries and that mainly in the last decade the tendency...