-economic network theories (e.g. entropy maximization, spatial interaction theory, etc.); (ii) the nature of the analytical relationship … investigates - from a methodological viewpoint - the relationship between network connectivity and the rank-size rule (or Zipf …'s law) in an urban-economic network constellation. After a review of the literature, we address in particular the following …

We present experiments on repeated non-cooperative network formation games, based on Bala and Goyal (2000). We treat … significantly helps coordination, but only when subjects are pre-instructed to think of the wheel network as a reasonable way to …

Game theory has been employed traditionally as a modeling tool for describing and influencing behavior in societal … systems. Recently, game theory has emerged as a valuable tool for controlling or prescribing behavior in distributed … partial information about each other and the state of the world. Accordingly, there is extensive work in game theory that is …