With the increasing ease with which information can be shared in social media, the issue of privacy has become central for the functioning of various online platforms. In this paper, we consider how privacy concerns affect individual choices in the context of a network formation game (where...

During the spread of an infection, agents need to trade off the health costs of getting infected and the economic costs of taking protective actions. An agent’s health cost depends on the action of everyone in the society, leading to a game among agents with strategic substitutes. We study the...