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Network Multipliers: The Optimality of Targeting Neighbors

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  • Galeotti Andrea

    (University of Essex)

  • Goyal Sanjeev

    (University of Cambridge)

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A firm wishes to inform a community of individuals about its product. Information travels within the community because of the social interactions between individuals. We establish that social interactions appear in a firm's payoff as a network multiplier, which is increasing both in the mean and in the variance of the distribution of connections. We then show that the degree distribution of a neighbor first order dominates the degree distribution of a node; so a firm must pick the neighbor of a node rather than a node itself as the target of communication. The advantages of employing an indirect communication strategy are greater in more dispersed networks.

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  • Galeotti Andrea & Goyal Sanjeev, 2012. "Network Multipliers: The Optimality of Targeting Neighbors," Review of Network Economics, De Gruyter, vol. 11(3), pages 1-11, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:bpj:rneart:v:11:y:2012:i:3:n:4
    DOI: 10.1515/1446-9022.1415
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