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Publication Date:
August 2006
ISSN:
1935-1704
DOI:
10.2202/1534-5963.1314

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Limited Observation in Mutual Consent Networks

Michael McBride1

1UC Irvine, mcbride@uci.edu

Citation Information: Advances in Theoretical Economics. Volume 6, Issue 1, Pages 1–29, ISSN (Online) 1534-5963, DOI: 10.2202/1534-5963.1314, August 2006

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2006-08-04

This paper studies mutual consent social networks in which individuals imperfectly monitor others' network ties and have incomplete information about the benefits of network participation. I introduce the Conjectural Pairwise Stability concept, which generalizes Jackson and Wolinsky's (1996) Pairwise Stability concept to allow for limited observation, and apply it to a specific mutual consent network formation game. While limited observation generally leads to the existence of less efficient stable networks, I find that it can also lead to the existence of efficient stable networks. Moreover, stability restrictions considered in previous work lose their refining power as observation becomes more limited.

Keywords: uncertainty; information; efficiency; observation

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