Shadow links

Key Players in Bullying Networks

“…Such an assumption is often justified by the fact that network relationships take more time to adjust than effort levels. 11 We illustrate the policy of finding and isolating the key player by means of a network g with 10 players given in Figure 1. This network structure is specific but rich enough to disentangle the effects of network spillovers, social conformity and players' characteristics on the resulting equilibrium outcomes and the key player policy.…”

Local farsightedness in network formation

“…Expectations about these connections might then influence players' decisions with whom to connect. Recently, Foerster et al (2021) propose a solution concept for network formation games where individuals can form two types of links: public links observed by everyone and shadow links generally not observed by others. An alternative approach to local farsightedness is limited farsightedness where players only consider farsighted improving paths that consist of a limited/bounded number of pairwise/groupwise deviations (see Herings et al, 2019; Mauleon et al, 2023).…”