Social and Economic Networks in Cooperative Game Theory

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Springer Science & Business Media, Mar 31, 2001 - Business & Economics - 291 pages
Social and Economic Networks in Cooperative Game Theory presents a coherent overview of theoretical literature that studies the influence and formation of networks in social and economic situations in which the relations between participants who are not included in a particular participant's network are not of consequence to this participant.
The material is organized in two parts. In Part I the authors concentrate on the question how network structures affect economic outcomes. Part II of the book presents the formation of networks by agents who engage in a network-formation process to be able to realize the possible gains from cooperation.
 

Contents

GAMES AND NETWORKS
3
RESTRICTED COOPERATION IN GAMES
21
INHERITANCE OF PROPERTIES IN COMMUNICATION
53
VARIANTS ON THE BASIC MODEL
89
NONCOOPERATIVE GAMES
135
A NETWORKFORMATION MODEL IN EXTENSIVE FORM
153
A NETWORKFORMATION MODEL IN STRATEGIC FORM
173
NETWORK FORMATION WITH COSTS FOR ESTABLISHING
193
A ONESTAGE MODEL OF NETWORK FORMATION
213
NETWORK FORMATION AND POTENTIAL GAMES
254
NETWORK FORMATION AND REWARD FUNCTIONS
265
References
281
Notations
287
249
291
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