Networks and Groups

by Dutta, Bhaskar; Jackson, Matthew O.

• ISBN13: 9783540431138
• ISBN10: 3540431136
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-01-01
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

The organization of individuals into networks and groups is of fundamental importance in many social and economic interactions. Examples range from networks of personal contacts used to obtain information about job opportunities to the formation of trading partnerships, alliances, cartels, and federations. Much of our understanding of how and why such networks and groups form, and the precise way in which the network or groups structure affects outcomes of social and economic interaction, is relatively new. This volume collects some of the central papers in this recent literature, which have made important progress on this topic.

Table of Contents

On the Formation of Networks and Groups	1	(16)
Bhaskar Dutta
Matthew O. Jackson
Graphs and Cooperation in Games	17	(6)
Roger B. Myerson
A Strategic Model of Social and Economic Networks	23	(28)
Matthew O. Jackson
Asher Wolinsky
Spatial Social Networks	51	(28)
Cathleen Johnson
Robert P. Gilles
Stable Networks	79	(20)
Bhaskar Dutta
Suresh Mutuswami
The Stability and Efficiency of Economic and Social Networks	99	(42)
Matthew O. Jackson
A Noncooperative Model of Network Formation	141	(44)
Venkatesh Bala
Sanjeev Goyal
The Stability and Efficiency of Directed Communication Networks	185	(22)
Bhaskar Dutta
Matthew O. Jackson
Endogenous Formation of Links Between Players and of Coalitions: An Application of the Shapley Value	207	(14)
Robert J. Aumann
Roger B. Myerson
Link Formation in Cooperative Situations	221	(12)
Bhaskar Dutta
Anne van den Nouweland
Stef Tijs
Network Formation Models With Costs for Establishing Links	233	(30)
Marco Slikker
Anne van den Nouweland
Network Formation With Sequential Demands	263	(22)
Sergio Currarini
Massimo Morelli
Coalition Formation in General NTU Games	285	(28)
Anke Gerber
A Strategic Analysis of Network Reliability	313	(24)
Venkatesh Bala
Sanjeev Goyal
A Dynamic Model of Network Formation	337	(10)
Alison Watts
A Theory of Buyer-Seller Networks	347	(32)
Rachel E. Kranton
Deborah F. Minehart
Competition for Goods in Buyer-Seller Networks	379	(30)
Rachel E. Kranton
Deborah F. Minehart
Buyers' and Sellers' Cartels on Markets With Indivisible Goods	409	(20)
Francis Bloch
Sayantan Ghosal
Network Exchange as a Cooperative Game	429	(24)
Elisa Jayne Bienenstock
Phillip Bonacich
Incentive Compatible Reward Schemes for Labour-managed Firms	453	(18)
Salvador Barbera
Bhaskar Dutta
Project Evaluation and Organizational Form	471	(24)
Thomas Gehrig
Pierre Regibeau
Kate Rockett
References	495