Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/149538 
Year of Publication: 
2016
Series/Report no.: 
Nota di Lavoro No. 65.2016
Publisher: 
Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), Milano
Abstract: 
This paper studies a noncooperative model of network formation. Built upon the two-way flow model of Bala and Goyal (2000a), it assumes that information decay as it flows through each agent, and the decay is increasing and concave in the number of his links. This assumption results in the fact that a large set of Nash networks are disconnected and consist of components of different sizes, a feature that resembles that of real-world networks. Discussions on this insight are provided.
Subjects: 
Two-way Flow Network
Network Formation
Information Network
JEL: 
C72
D85
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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