A small world threshold for economic network formation

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 385-392

  Even Dar, Eyal ^a   Kearns, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE DISTANCE; ECONOMIC NETWORKS; GAME-THEORETIC MODEL; HIGHER DIMENSIONS; NASH EQUILIBRIA; NETWORK FORMATION; NETWORK SIZE; SMALL WORLDS; THEORETICAL RESULT; THRESHOLD PHENOMENA; TWO-DIMENSION;

STOCHASTIC MODELS;

GAME THEORY;

EID: 77649104146     PISSN: 10495258     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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