Since the seminal contribution of Jackson & Wolinsky 1996 [A Strategic Model of Social and Economic Networks, JET 71 …, 44-74] it has been widely acknowledged that the formation of social networks exhibits a general conflict between … results that relate situations of positive externalities with stable networks that cannot be "too dense" in a well …

network position, it has not been explicitly studied which networks emerge if actors follow incentives for these two … for closeness are likely to reach networks with relatively low closeness and high betweenness, while this is the other way …

Since the seminal contribution of Jackson & Wolinsky 1996 [A Strategic Model of Social and Economic Networks, JET 71 …, 44-74] it has been widely acknowledged that the formation of social networks exhibits a general conflict between … general results that relate situations of positive externalities with stable networks that cannot be “too dense” in a well …

combination of speed with dense and homogeneous networks harms revenue growth over time. The effects of structural holes and …

This paper shows that the set of probability distributions over networks induced by Nash equilibria of the network … formation game proposed by Myerson (1991) is finite for a generic assignment of payoffs to networks. The same result can be …

–world networks. Evidence from the main Colombian payment and settlement systems verifies that local financial networks have self … financial networks, and suggest new insights and challenges for authorities contributing to their stability. For instance, (i …

builds upon adaptive expectations, interactive expectations and small world networks, combining them into a single adaptive …