We study the diffusion of a true and a false opinion (the rumor) in a social network. Upon hearing an opinion …

firms. Under the proposed information mechanism, consumers share their initial information with the members of their network … characterizing how many different pieces of information a network is likely to contain. This informativeness is crucial for the … results are robust to the introduction of sequential search and network segregation, but an increase in segregation decreases …

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 …

This paper studies a noncooperative model of network formation. Built upon the two-way flow model of Bala and Goyal …

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 …

of a network – applying the Public Good Index (PGI) and the Public Value (PV) –, reinterprets previous work by Holler and … distribution within a network. Here, our focus is on the accountability of the agents – and the Smart City concept …

We study a coordination game among agents on a network, who choose whether or not to take an action in an uncertain … coordination set if and only if the network is balanced, i.e., the average degree of each subnetwork is no larger than the average … degree of the network. Comparative statics exercises as well as welfare properties are investigated. In particular, we show …

This paper applies for the first time power index analysis to the famous Krackhardt’s kite social network by imposing a … weighted voting game on the given network structure. It compares the results of this analysis, derived by applying the Public … traditional centrality measures are rather a first approximation for evaluating the power in a network as they considerably …