connection costs; (3) the central planner selects a cost minimizing network satisfying reported connection demands based on the … estimated costs; and, (4) the planner allocates the true costs of the selected network. It turns out that an allocation rule …

This paper analyzes the private provision of public goods where consumers interact within a fixed network structure and … beyond a special network architecture in the neighborhood of the set of contributors. …

to the children. A weighted social network describes how children are influenced not only by their parents but also by …

how the speed of learning by chit-chat depends on the structure of the environment. A network represents the environment … meetings depends on the underlying network structure and we use this quantity to investigate the speed of learning in the … distribution (MPS). Specifically, if the number of individuals is low (high), then a MPS of the network increases (decreases) the …

The paper presents a dynamic model of neighborhood segregation where fee motivated real estate brokers match sellers … trade-off faced by a broker. The model shows that with multiple brokers, blockbusting profit per broker is lower as brokers …

structures and network structures on contagion of a convention beyond 2×2 coordination games. First, we consider the “bilingual … to the entire population in some network, and conversely, when a convention is never invaded by the other convention in … any network. We show that the Pareto-dominant (risk-dominant, resp.) convention is contagious if the cost of bilingual …

The paper analyzes quantity competition in economies in which a network describes the set of feasible trades. A model … existence, a characterization of prices and flows, and some negative results relating welfare to network structure. The second … the network structure for equilibria to be approximately efficient when the number of players is large. …

inferences regarding the private information of others through the repeated interaction with his neighbors in the network. The … presence of at least one Bayesian agent in a strongly connected network is shown to be generically sufficient for every agent …