Arbeitspapier

Network Formation with Heterogeneous Players

This paper studies network formation in settings where players are heterogeneous with respect to benefits as well as the costs of forming links. Our results demonstrate that centrality, center-sponsorship and short network diameter are robust features of equilibrium networks. We find that in a society with many groups, where it is cheaper to connect within groups as compared to across groups, strategic play by individuals leads to a network architecture in which there is a core group which is entirely internally connected while all the other groups are entirely externally linked and hence completely fragmented. Since internal/within group links are cheaper to form, this implies that individual incentives may generate a significant waste of valuable social resources.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper ; No. 02-069/1

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Noncooperative Games
Game Theory and Bargaining Theory: Other
Thema
Noncooperative games
Network formation
Heterogeneity
Spieltheorie
Lernprozess
Nash-Gleichgewicht
Theorie
Soziales Netzwerk

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Galeotti, Andrea
Goyal, Sanjeev
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Tinbergen Institute
(wo)
Amsterdam and Rotterdam
(wann)
2002

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Galeotti, Andrea
  • Goyal, Sanjeev
  • Tinbergen Institute

Entstanden

  • 2002

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