A noncooperative model of network formation

Econometrica

Volumn 68, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 1181-1229

  Bala, Venkatesh ^a   Goyal, Sanjeev ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Coordination; Learning dynamics; Networks; Noncooperative games

Indexed keywords

EID: 18744366420     PISSN: 00129682     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-0262.00155     Document Type: Article

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