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Increasing concerns about climate change have given rise to the formation of International Environmental Agreements (IEAs) as a possible solution to limit global pollution effects. In this paper, we study the stability of IEAs in a repeated game framework where we restrict to strategies which...
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into account the potential externalities networks produce. Once social ties are in place, these externalities shape the … norms are easily sustained in symmetric networks. By contrast, when an efficient interaction requires players to play …
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chances of getting infected but also our entire network. We introduce a model for coalitional network stability in networks …; this simple setting also models economic situations such as airline networks. The second models social contacts during an …
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complementarity in actions, efficiency can be either associated to more sparse or denser networks, depending on the size of the …
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future choices. These considerations motivate a rich research programme on how social networks shape individual and …
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individuals exchanging favors have a common friend. In symmetric settings, such robust networks are "social quilts": tree …-like unions of completely connected subnetworks. Examining favor exchange networks in 75 villages in rural India, we find high …
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complex networks have been important research topics. In the inter-firm innovation network, it is a typical game behavior for …
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This paper provides a formal analysis on the investment coordination problem in a vertically separated electricity supply industry, although the analysis may apply also to other network industries. In an electric- ity system, the investment decisions of network and power plants need to be...
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symmetric case. As an application, we establish an interesting link with the formation of networks. -- Overlapping Coalitions …
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This paper brings together analyses of two-way flow Strict Nash networks under exclusive player heterogeneity … two assumptions influence important properties of Strict Nash networks. Built upon the findings of Billand et al (2011 … the shapes of Strict Nash networks. …
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