-makers form, and what determines whether a conflict will arise? We study a network formation game between ex-ante symmetric … players in the laboratory to examine the dynamics of alliance formation and conflict evolution. A peaceful equilibrium yields …

Conflict parties are frequently involved into more than one conflict at a given time. In this paper the interrelated … structure of conflictive relations is modeled as a conflict network where opponents are embedded in a local structure of … bilateral conflicts. Conflict parties invest in specific conflict technology to attack their respective rivals and defend their …

managing longer-term contracts. Second, the network serves as a reputation system that can stratify vendors according to their …

Social networks and reputation play important roles in mitigating informational frictions related to financial … intermediation, in particular bank lending. We investigate the effect of financial institutions' network and reputation on the …