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Friend-Based Ranking in Practice
Francis Bloch, Matthew Olckers
A planner aims to target individuals who exceed a threshold in a characteristic, such as wealth or ability. The individuals can rank their friends according to the characteristic.…
A game of hide and seek in networks
Francis Bloch, Bhaskar Dutta, Marcin Dziubinski
We propose and study a strategic model of hiding in a network, where the network designer chooses the links and his position in the network facing the seeker who inspects and disru…
Targeting in social networks with anonymized information
Francis Bloch, Shaden Shabayek
This paper studies whether a planner who only has information about the network topology can discriminate among agents according to their network position. The planner proposes a s…
Friend-Based Ranking
Francis Bloch, Matthew Olckers
We analyze the design of a mechanism to extract a ranking of individuals according to a unidimensional characteristic, such as ability or need. Individuals, connected on a social n…
Centrality Measures in Networks
Francis Bloch, Matthew O. Jackson, Pietro Tebaldi
We show that prominent centrality measures in network analysis are all based on additively separable and linear treatments of statistics that capture a node's position in the netwo…