Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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5071744 | Games and Economic Behavior | 2014 | 10 Pages |
Abstract
We study network games under strategic complementarities. Agents are embedded in a fixed network. They choose a positive, continuous action and interact with their network neighbors. Interactions are positive and actions are bounded from above. We first derive new sufficient conditions for uniqueness, covering all concave as well as some non-concave best responses. We then study the relationship between position and action and identify situations where a more central agent always plays a higher action in equilibrium. We finally analyze comparative statics. We show that a shock may not propagate throughout the entire network and uncover a general pattern of decreasing interdependence.
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Authors
Mohamed Belhaj, Yann Bramoullé, Frédéric Deroïan,