Network public goods with asymmetric information about cooperation preferences and network degree

Social Networks

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 573-582

  Dijkstra, Jacob ^a   Van Assen, Marcel A L M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Asymmetric information; Closure; Co operation; Degree dependence; Network public goods; Social exchange heuristic

Indexed keywords

EID: 84883292005     PISSN: 03788733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socnet.2013.08.005     Document Type: Article

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