This dissertation examines a natural signaling mechanism in a two-sided matching market between firms and workers. We consider a basic game of incomplete information. Each agent knows her own preferences over matches, but uncertain about other agent preferences. Each worker can send a limited...

This thesis contains three essays on the formation of social networks. The first essay focuses on citation networks while the second one proposes a general model of network formation. The third essay is an empirical investigation of a person's kinship network.Chapter 1: Citations and the...