many well-known results from the contest literature can be obtained by varying the structure of the network. Our framework …

Network structure has a significant role in determining the outcomes of many socioeconomic relationships, including the … antagonistic ones. In this paper we study a situation in which agents, embedded in a network, simultaneously play interrelated … bilateral contest games with their neighbors. Interrelatedness of contests induces complex local and global network effects. We …

set to show how network characteristics vary across political systems. We provide results from more than 150 countries and … show how the format of the network tends to reflect the extent of democratisation of each country. We also outline further …

Business and politician interaction is pervasive but has mostly been analysed with a binary approach. Yet the network … our analysis is to identify how location in a network, including extent of ties and centrality, are correlated with firm … scale and performance. In a binary approach such network characteristics are omitted and the scale and economic impact of …