seems that few scholars have discussed the relationship between social networks and the Boltzmann-Gibbs distribution … popular empirical network structures such as small world networks and scale-free networks. In addition, our simulation results …

popular empirical network structures such as small world networks and scale-free networks. Thus, the social interaction …

realistic interbank networks that preserve important characteristics of the original interbank market. The method loads the most … probable links with the largest exposures consistent with the total lending and borrowing of each bank, leading to networks …

exchange as the topology of the underlying network is altered. We find that networks matter, that changes in a network …

We analyze R&D collaboration networks in industries where firms are competitors in the product market. Firms' benefits … characterization of both equilibrium networks and endogenous production choices in the form of a Gibbs measure. We analyze the …

This paper analyzes the formation of networks in which each agent is assumed to possess some information of value to … networks emerge. However, for large noise, a smaller observation radius generates networks with a larger degree variance. These … networks can also be shown to have larger aggregate payoff. I then estimate the model using a network of coinventors and …

networks are consistent with empirically observed networks. We then use our equilibrium characterization to show that the model … can be conveniently estimated even for large networks. The policy relevance is demonstrated with examples of firm exit …, mergers and acquisitions and subsidies in the context of R&D collaboration networks. …