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 …

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 …

We build a search-and-matching algorithm of network dynamics with decision-making under incomplete information, seeking …, produces populist and polarization network dynamics. Homophily leads to actions with more weight on biases and less weight on …

The very notion of social network implies that linked individuals interact repeatedly with each other. This allows them …-graphs of the social network. For large network games, the number of such equilibria is exponentially large in the number of …