Building up social capital in a changing world

Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control

Volumn 30, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 2305-2338

  Vega Redondo, Fernando ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Clustering; Cooperation; Networks; Prisoner's Dilemma; Search

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748427899     PISSN: 01651889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jedc.2005.07.004     Document Type: Article

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