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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Jackson, Matthew O. & Rogers, Brian W., 2005.
"The economics of small worlds,"
Working Papers
1214, California Institute of Technology, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences.
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