The Economics of Small Worlds
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چکیده
We examine a simple economic model of network formation where agents benefit from indirect relationships. We show that small-world features—short path lengths between nodes together with highly clustered link structures—necessarily emerge for a wide set of parameters. (JEL: D85, A14, C72)
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