This paper studies a mechanism design model where the players and the designer are nodes in a communication network. We characterize the communication networks (directed graphs) for which, in any environment (utilities and beliefs), every incentive compatible social choice function is partially...

Small businesses often have small budgets, which often means no fulltime IT staff or no possibility to hire a security consultant to set up a wireless LAN properly. This paper tries to develop a methodology for designing security for wireless networks in SMB. There are more security options to...

We study cooperative games associated with a communication structure which takes into account a level of communication between players. Let us consider an undirected communication graph: each node represents a player and there is an edge between two nodes if the corresponding players can...

Состояние и развитие коммуникативного пространства в современной экономике определяет конкурентоспособность и эффективность функционирования субъектов...

Although informal networks are often emphasized as facilitating knowledge transfer, we use network data obtained from a multi-unit high-tech firm to show that the formal network also significantly contributes to inter-unit knowledge transfer. Individuals centrally placed in a network are, in...

This paper shows that Rubinstein’s results on the two-player electronic mail game do not extend to the N-player electronic mail game.

As shown by Rubinstein (1989, AER), in the two-player electronic mail game, players are better off if the extent to which they can check each other’s information, check each other’s information about each other’s information, etc., is limited. This paper investigates to what...