Inequality and network structure

Games and Economic Behavior

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 215-226

  Kets, Willemien ^a,b,f   Iyengar, Garud ^c   Sethi, Rajiv ^b,d   Bowles, Samuel ^b,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^d Program on US Russia Relations at Columbia s Harriman Institute   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^f TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cooperative games; Inequality; Lorenz dominance; Networks

Indexed keywords

EID: 79961022892     PISSN: 08998256     EISSN: 10902473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geb.2010.12.007     Document Type: Article

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