Bramoullé

Publications

Risk-sharing networksJournal articleYann Bramoullé and Rachel Kranton, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Volume 64, Issue 3-4, pp. 275-294, 2007

This paper considers the formation of risk-sharing networks. Following empirical findings, we build a model where pairs form links, but a population cannot coordinate links. As a benchmark, individuals commit to share monetary holdings equally with linked partners. We find efficient networks can (indirectly) connect all individuals and involve full insurance. But equilibrium networks connect fewer individuals. When breaking links, individuals do not consider negative externalities on others in the network. Thus identical individuals can end up in different positions in a network and have different outcomes. These results may help to explain empirical findings that risk-sharing is often asymmetric.

Allocation of pollution abatement under learning by doingJournal articleYann Bramoullé and Lars J. Olson, Journal of Public Economics, Volume 89, Issue 9-10, pp. 1935-1960, 2005

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Network formation and anti-coordination gamesJournal articleYann Bramoullé, Dunia López-Pintado, Sanjeev Goyal and Fernando Vega-Redondo, International Journal of Game Theory, Volume 33, Issue 1, pp. 1-19, 2004

We study a setting in which individual players choose their partners as well as a mode of behavior in 2×2 anti-coordination games – games where a player’s best response is to choose an action unlike that of her partner. We characterize the equilibrium networks as well as study the effects of network structure on individual behavior. Our analysis shows that both network architecture and induced behavior crucially depend on the value of the cost of forming links. In general, equilibrium configurations are found to be neither unique nor efficient. Copyright Springer-Verlag 2004