Networks of relations and Word-of-Mouth Communication

Games and Economic Behavior

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 202-217

  Lippert, Steffen ^a,b,c   Spagnolo, Giancarlo ^d,e,f  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^b New Zealand Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship Research Centre   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^e STOCKHOLM SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Sweden)

^f Einaudi Institute of Economics and Finance (EIEF)   (Italy)

Author keywords

Collusion; Communication; Community enforcement; Contagion; Cooperation; Multimarket contact; Private monitoring; Relational contracts; Repeated games; Reputation; Rumors; Social capital; Social collateral; Social networks; Soft information; Trust

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953326930     PISSN: 08998256     EISSN: 10902473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geb.2010.08.010     Document Type: Article

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