peer, neighborhood and network effects and the policy implications of integrating the social and the geographical space …

We analyze a model of network formation with agents that belong to different communities and an endogenous cost … connection decrease with distance in the network, while the cost of a link depends on the type of agents involved in it as well … individual positions in the network. We derive a number of results with regard to equilibrium networks: (i) socialization among …

We study from both a theoretical and an empirical perspective how a network of military alliances and enmities affects … the intensity of a conflict. The model combines elements from network theory and from the politico-economic theory of … characterization of the Nash equilibrium of the fighting game, and of how the network structure affects individual and total fighting …

migrants who arrive through family reunification are less likely to work full-time; refugees are also less self-employed. Those …

We consider a network game with strategic complementarities where the individual reward or the strength of interactions … disentangling the information effects from the network effects and show that the equilibrium effort of each agent is a weighted … the weights are its eigenvectors. We then study the impact of incomplete information on a network policy which aim is to …

targeting a set of network nodes that are optimally positioned to quickly diffuse information, attitudes, behaviors or goods. We … targeting the most active agents in a network. …