Cowan, Robin; Jonard, Nicolas - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2006
We model knowledge diffusion in a population of agents situated on a network, interacting only over direct ties. Some … agents are by nature traders, others are by nature "givers": traders demand a quid pro quo for information transfer; givers … (proportion of traders), the network structure (clustering, path length and degree distribution), and the scarcity of knowledge …