We introduce a simple two-stage game of endogenous network formation and information sharing for reasoning about the … then we study how the network design and the utility specifications affect welfare. Surprisingly, we find that in general … "babblers" or "friends", irrespective of whether the network is unilateral or bilateral, in equilibrium, targeted information …

) 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 …

individuals through job moves over their career, we establish the dynamic co-worker network across firms of the entire ICT … that have diverse connections but are central to the network as well. We find that large firms benefit more from triadic … closure in the co-worker network, stressing the role cohesive relations in sharing complex knowledge. Our results highlight …

mechanisms behind the collapse of an online social network (OSN), iWiW. Significant cascading mechanisms have been identified in … actors that started these cascades and abandoned the site early compared to others in their network. We contrasted … innovativeness. On the one hand, those who are well embedded in their existing network have more to lose. On the other hand, people …