Unilateral vs. Bilateral link-formation: Bridging the gap

We provide a model that bridges the gap between two benchmark models of strategic network formation: Jackson and Wolinsky' s model based on bilateral formation of links, and Bala and Goyal's two-way fl ow model, where links can be unilaterally formed. In the model introduced and studied here a link can be created unilaterally. When it is only supported by one of the two players the fl ow through the link suffers a certain decay, but when it is supported by both the fl ow runs without friction. When the decay in links supported by only one player is maximal (i.e. there is no flow) we have Jackson and Wolinsky 's connections model without decay, while when flow in such links is perfect we have Bala and Goyal' s two-way flow model. We study Nash, strict Nash and pairwise stability for the intermediate models. Efficiency and dynamics are also examined.

From bilateral two-way to unilateral one-way flow link-formation

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A Unifying model of strategic network formation

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Efficiency vs. Stability in a Mixed Network Formation Model

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The impact of liberalizing cost-saharing on basic models of network formation

This paper studies the impact of "liberalizing " the cost-sharing of links on some basic models of network formation. This is done in a setting where both doubly supported and singly supported links are possible, and which includes the two seminal models of network formation by Jackson and Wolinsky and Bala and Goyal as extreme cases. In this setting, the notion of pairwise stability is extended and it is proved that liberalizing cost-sharing for doubly supported links widens the range of values of the parameters where the efficient networks formed by such type of links are pairwise stable, while the range of values of the parameters where the efficient networks formed by singly supported links are pairwise stable shrinks, but the region where the latter are e¢ cient and pairwise stable remains the same.

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[ES] Este trabajo de intervención, construido desde la perspectiva sociocrítica, presenta una intervención socioeducativa desarrollada en la ciudad de Aracaju, Brasil. La citada intervención, en, con y para un grupo de personas con escasos recursos económicos, sobre todo mujeres, se basa en la cooperación al desarrollo entendido como instrumento capaz de generar experiencias que posibilitan hacer frente a las consecuencias nefastas de los modelos económico, cultural, político y social dominantes en la actualidad. Entre los impactos de este trabajo podemos citar la fundación de una asociación de vecinas y vecinos, la creación de un perfil de dicha asociación en Facebook y la puesta en marcha de acciones comunitarias como un bingo solidario, talleres de empoderamiento de mujeres y un bazar solidario. Los resultados de este trabajo permiten afirmar que urge el fomento de estrategias, medidas y acciones que favorezcan el paso de un modelo asistencial a un modelo de autonomía.