We examine the spread of a disease or behavior through a social network. In particular, we analyze how infection rates … first- and second order stochastic dominance relationships of the degree distribution in order to compare infection rates … across different social networks. …

to international travel, as indicated by centrality in air travel networks and tourist numbers is strongly associated …

to international travel, as indicated by centrality in air travel networks and tourist numbers is strongly associated …

most successful neighbor. We show that in finite networks, regardless of the network structure, the population converges to … this action will be. In arbitrarily large networks with bounded neighborhoods, an action is diffused to the whole …

We survey the literature on the economic consequences of the structure of social networks. We develop a taxonomy of … "macro" and "micro" characteristics of social interaction networks and discuss both the theoretical and empirical findings … concerning the role of those characteristics in determining learning, diffusion, decisions, and resulting behaviors. We also …

We survey the literature on the economic consequences of the structure of social networks. We develop a taxonomy of … "macro" and "micro" characteristics of social interaction networks and discuss both the theoretical and empirical findings … concerning the role of those characteristics in determining learning, diffusion, decisions, and resulting behaviors. We also …