TY - BOOK ID - 10030924 TI - The Oxford handbook of the economics of networks AU - Bramoullé, Yann AU - Galeotti, Andrea AU - Rogers, Brian W. PY - 2016 SN - 9780199948277 9780190216825 0199948275 PB - Oxford: Oxford university press, DB - UniCat KW - Social networks KW - Information networks KW - Social sciences KW - Network analysis (Social sciences) KW - Networking, Social KW - Networks, Social KW - Social networking KW - Social support systems KW - Support systems, Social KW - Interpersonal relations KW - Cliques (Sociology) KW - Microblogs KW - Economic aspects. KW - Network analysis. KW - E-books KW - Netzwerkökonomik. KW - Economic aspects KW - Network analysis KW - SNA (Social network analysis) KW - Social network analysis KW - System analysis KW - Methodology KW - Social networks - Economic aspects KW - Information networks - Economic aspects KW - Social sciences - Network analysis UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:10030924 AB - This handbook represents the frontier of research into the economics of networks: how and why they form, how they influence behavior, how they help govern outcomes in an interactive world, and how they shape collective decision making, opinion formation, and diffusion dynamics. From a methodological perspective, the authors devote attention to theory, field experiments, laboratory experiments, and econometrics. Theoretical work in network formation, games played on networks, repeated games, and the interaction between linking and behavior are synthesized. A number of chapters are devoted to studying social processes mediated by networks. Topics here include opinion formation, diffusion of information and disease, and learning. There are also chapters devoted to financial contagion and systemic risk. Next, the handbook includes a section that discusses communities more generally, with applications including social trust, favor exchange, and social collateral; the importance of communities for migration patterns, and the role that networks and communities play in the labor market. A prominent role of networks, from an economic perspective, is that they mediate trade. Several chapters cover bilateral trade in networks, strategic intermediation, and the role of networks in international trade. The handbook also discusses the role of networks for organizations. One chapter discusses the role of networks for the performance of organizations, while two other chapters discuss managing networks of consumers and pricing in the presence of network-based spillovers. Finally, the handbook covers the Internet as a network, with attention to the issue of net neutrality. ER -