efficient network maximizing social welfare, and find that the efficient graph is either empty, complete or shows a strong core … counterfactual analyses, taking into account that the network and production can dynamically adjust to shocks or policy interventions ….6%. Our study further reveals that when ignoring the network structure the impact of firm exit or mergers is significantly …

-speci?c heterogeneity and supporting causal inference, (ii) techniques for estimating, and conducting inference on, summary network … parameters (e.g., the degree distribution or transitivity index); and (iii) empirical models of strategic network formation …

Modern society is a network society permeated by information technology (IT). As a result of innovations in IT … the perspective of different layers defining these networks. -- Network Uncertainty ; Network Evolution ; Communication … and Trust ; Governance ; Processes ; Information Technology ; Network Structure ; Network Dynamics ; Business Networks …

restricted through a network of existing relationships and traders bargain over the division of available gains from trade along … point of a set of intuitive value function equations and study efficiency and the relationship between network structure and … ; Middlemen ; Network …

Many data situations require the consideration of network effects among the cross-sectional units of observation. In … this paper, we present a generalized panel model which accounts for two features: (i) three types of network effects on the … error components, and (ii) higher-order network effects due to ex-ante unknown network-decay functions or the presence of …