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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Strategic Network Formation"”.
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Stability, Efficiency, and Equity in Network Formation Games
Strategic network formation has seen sparse application in international relations (IR) where it can be used to model the evolution of relationships among international actors. Of interest to IR theorists is the relative stability of the international system: instability in the system could signal …
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Dynamics of Regime Evolution: Modeling Agent-Structure Interactions in the International System
… the international system. The dynamic model of networks and behavior constructed here allows for the analysis of strategic network formation and regime growth as it pertains to institutional development between states. The model is then used to analyze the co-evolution of an institutional …
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Essays on the economics of racial segregation
… Chapter 3 and 4 analyze segregation in social networks. In Chapter 3, I develop and estimate a structural model of strategic network formation with heterogeneous agents. Structural estimation of strategic models of network formation is challenging, since these models usually have multiple …
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Social Interactions and Network Formation -- EmpiricalModeling and Applications
… spread of obesity. Studies reveal that social networks play an important role as channels to disseminate information or facilitate activities. By using the spatial autoregressive (SAR) model to study social interactions, one can utilize the detailed network information to construct a spatial …
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Strategic delay and information exchange in endogenous social networks
This thesis studies optimal stopping problems for strategic agents in the context of two economic applications: experimentation in a competitive market and information exchange in social networks. The economic agents (firms in the first application, individuals in the second) take actions, whose …