Many firms, banks, or other economic agents embedded in a network of codependencies
may experience a contemporaneous, sharp drop in functionality or productivity following a …

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 …

Conflict economics contributes to an understanding of violent conflict and peace in two
important ways. First, it applies economic concepts and models to help one understand …

Strategic network formation arises in settings where agents receive some benefit from their
connectedness to other agents, but also incur costs for forming these links. We consider a …

We establish the general properties of equilibria (existence and uniqueness) in a very
general model of interconnected multiplayer conflicts. In particular, under mild conditions on …

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Decision-makers in foreign policy and national security are constantly confronted with an
adversarial, networked environments. In such an environment, the “entities”(ie, political …

Counting conservatively, data show about 100 million mass atrocity-related deaths since
1900. A distinct empirical phenomenon, mass atrocities are events of enormous scale …

This paper studies fictitious play in networks of noncooperative two-person games. We show
that continuous-time fictitious play converges to the set of Nash equilibria if the overall n …

We consider an aggregative game of competition in which agents have an imperfect
knowledge about the set of agents they are in competition with. We model agent's perceived …