The Economics of Networks

By Gisele Umbhauer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Part I : Interaction and Macro-Struture : an Overview Economies with Interacting Agents By Alan P. Kinnan (GREQUAM) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Spatial Interactions in Dynamic Decentralised Economies : a Review By Giorgio Fagiolo (EUI) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Network, Interactions between Economic Agents and Irreversibilities : the Case of the Choice among Competing Technologies By Patrick Cohendet (BETA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 Rationality and Heterogeneity in Stochastic Aggregation Models By Jean-Michel Dalle (IEPE) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 Part II : Local Interaction, Learning and Diversity Networks Competition under Local Interaction and Behavioral Learning By Nicolas Jonard (BETA), Patrick Llerena (BETA) and Babak Mehm- pazir (BETA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149 Can Neighborhood Protect Diversity By Gisele Umbhauer (BETA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167 Interaction of Local Interactions: Localized Learning and Network Exter nalities By Nicolas Jonard (BETA) and Murat ytldlZoglu(BETA) . . . . . . . . . . . . 189 viii List of Contribution Evolution of Cooperation with Local Interactions and Imitation By Vanessa Oltra (BETA) and Eric Schenk (BETA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205 On the Frontier: Structural Effects in a Diffusion Model based on Influence Matrixes By Alexandre Steyer (REC) and Jean-Benoit Zimmermann (GREQUAM) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223