We survey the literature on the economic consequences of the structure of social networks.
We develop a taxonomy of “macro” and “micro” characteristics of social-interaction networks …

Recent analyses of social networks, both empirical and theoretical, are discussed, with a
focus on how social networks influence economic behavior, as well as how social networks …

In this chapter, I provide an overview of research on social networks and their role in
shaping behavior and economic outcomes. I include discussion of empirical and theoretical …

As Joel Podolny and James Rauch point out in their introductory chapter, social networks
are endemic to economic interactions. The rise of what one might refer to as nsocial …

In much of economic theory it is assumed that economic agents interact, directly or indirectly,
with all others, or at least that they have the opportunity to do so in order to achieve a …

We provide an overview and synthesis of the literature on how social networks influence
behaviors, with a focus on diffusion. We discuss some highlights from the empirical literature …

A growing empirical literature examines the role that networks play in a variety of economic
phenomena. This research can be crudely partitioned into two branches. The first holds …

Social and economic networks are ubiquitous, serving as contexts for job search, technology
diffusion, the accumulation of human capital, and even the formulation of norms and values …

Economic Networks in the Laboratory: A Survey Page 1 Economic Networks in the Laboratory:
A Survey MICHAEL KOSFELD* Institute for Empirical Research in Economics, University of …

By Matthew O. Jackson and Leeat Yariv* would lead the diffusion process to converge back
to that equilibrium point. Other equilibria are unstable, so that a slight change in the …