of the agreement form an information network. The network's members optimally specialize based on their opportunities in … particular aspects of the technology or in expanding or managing the network. Endogenously there are incentives to standardize on … designs and descriptions of the technology. A tinkerer in the network who sees an opportunity to produce a profitable product …

We propose a novel model of knowledge discovery shedding light on the emergence of General Purpose Technologies (GPTs … only when certain conditions with regard to the following techno-economic factors are met: knowledge diffusion …

We study a model of network formation and start-up financing with endogenous entrepreneurial type distribution. A hub … firm admits members to its network based on signals about entrepreneurs' types. Network membership is observable, which … allows lenders to offer different interest rates to network and stand-alone entrepreneurs. We show that a network outcome can …

structure of conflictive relations is modeled as a conflict network where opponents are embedded in a local structure of … aggregated equilibrium investment (interpreted as conflict intensity) and underlying network characteristics. The derived results … interrelated conflict structure might have adverse consequences for conflict intensity. -- Network games ; conflicts ; conflict …

network formation. While the physics/applied mathematics approach is capable of reproducing most observed networks, it does … results with those obtained in sociology. -- random graph ; game theory ; centrality measures ; network formation ; weak and …

and sellers have rich yet incomplete knowledge of the network structure; allowing us to derive meaningful conditions that … in a buyer-seller network and suggest a framework for studying repeated games in such networks. In our framework, buyers … determine whether a network is consistent with trade and cooperation between every buyer and seller that are connected. We show …

substitutability and cross side complementarity. Given this preference domain I analyze the interplay between properties of the network … stable network, and (v) the existence of an efficient and individually stable network. These equivalences also provide a …

network formation. While the physics/applied mathematics approach is capable of reproducing most observed networks, it does … results with those obtained in sociology. -- Random graph ; game theory ; centrality measures ; network formation ; weak and …

When workers send applications to vacancies they create a network. Frictions arise if workers do not know where other … workers apply to (this affects network creation) and firms do not know which candidates other firms consider (this affects … network clearing). We show that those frictions and the wage mechanism are in general not independent. Equilibria that exhibit …