The Economics of Networks: Interaction and Behaviours

The economics of networks.- Interaction structure: the role of asymmetries.- Irreversibility, diversity and stability.- Outline of the book.- I Interaction and Macro-Struture: an Overview.- 1 Economies with Interacting Agents.- 2 Spatial Interactions in Dynamic Decentralised Economies: a Review.- 3 Network, Interactions between Economic Agents and Irreversibilities: the Case of the Choice among Competing Technologies.- 4 Rationality and Heterogeneity in Stochastic Aggregation Models.- II Local Interaction, Learning and Diversity.- 5 Networks Competition under Local Interaction and Behavioral Learning.- 6 Can Neighborhood Protect Diversity.- 7 Interaction of Local Interactions: Localized Learning and Network Externalities.- 8 Evolution of Cooperation with Local Interactions and Imitation.- 9 On the Frontier: Structural Effects in a Diffusion Model based on Influence Matrixes.- III Behaviors, Externalities and the Emergence of Networks.- 10 Networks, Specialization and Trust.- 11 Network Externalities, Cost Functions and Standardization.- 12 The Emergence of Network Organizations in Processes of Technological Choice: a Viability Approach.- 13 Are more Informed Agents able to shatter Information Cascades in the Lab ?.- 14 Information Externalities and Learning with Sequential Interactions.- 15 The Evolution of Imitation.

Comprehensive presentation of the state of the art Better understanding of specific networks phenomena because of different theoretical and experimental approaches