Currarini, Sergio; Redondo, Fernando Vega - Dipartimento di Economia, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia - 2010
We study the formation of social ties among heteogeneous agents in a model where meetings are governed by agents' directed search. The aim is to shed light on the important issue of homophily (the tendency of agents to connect with others of the same type). The essential contribution of the...