Business and politician interaction is pervasive but has mostly been analysed with a binary approach. Yet the network … networks of connections, including their scale and composition. We find that all country networks are integrated having a Big … our analysis is to identify how location in a network, including extent of ties and centrality, are correlated with firm …

Social network analysis and graph theoretical elements are incorporated into the Austrian Capital Theory in order to … better reflect its core concepts. Graph theory is applied to formalize the heterogeneity of capital and the production … process as a network or ecology of firms. The main result of this theoretical endeavor is that the greater the number of …

We introduce a simple two-stage game of endogenous network formation and information sharing for reasoning about the … optimal design of social networks like Facebook or Google+. We distinguish between unilateral and bilateral connections and … then we study how the network design and the utility specifications affect welfare. Surprisingly, we find that in general …