Introduction -- Networks : concepts and empirics -- Games on networks -- Coordination and cooperation -- Social learning -- Social networks in labor markets -- Strategic network formation : concepts -- One-sided link formation -- Two-sided link formation -- Research collaboration among firms

Biographical note: GoyalSanjeev: Sanjeev Goyal is professor of economics at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Christ’s College. He is one of the pioneers in the economic study of networks, and his work has appeared in leading international journals such as "Econometrica, Journal of...

This paper develops a simple model to examine the interaction between partner choice and individual behavior in games of coordination. An important ingredient of our approach is the way we model partner choice: we suppose that a player can establish ties with other players by unilaterally...

In many economic and social contexts, individual players choose their partners and also decide ona mode of behavior in interactions with these partners. This paper develops a simple model toexamine the interaction between partner choice and individual behavior in games of coordination.An...