Diffusion, strategic interaction, and social structure

Handbook of Social Economics

Volumn 1, Issue 1 B, 2011, Pages 645-678

  Jackson, Matthew O ^a,b   Yariv, Leeat ^c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffusion; Games on Networks; Graphical games; Learning; Network games; Social networks

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865379495     PISSN: 15706435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-444-53187-2.00014-0     Document Type: Chapter

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