Published March 2005 | Submitted
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The Economics of Small Worlds

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Abstract

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.

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