Contagion and coordination in random networks

International Journal of Game Theory

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 371-381

  López Pintado, Dunia ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Contagion; Coordination games; Mean field theory; Scale free networks

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749380302     PISSN: 00207276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00182-006-0026-5     Document Type: Article

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