Network Security and Contagion

We develop a theoretical model of security investments in a network of interconnected agents. Network connections introduce the possibility of cascading failures due to an exogenous or endogenous attack depending on the profile of security investments by the agents. The general presumption in the li...

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Principais autores: Acemoglu, Daron, Malekian, Azarakhsh, Ozdaglar, Asu
Formato: Working Paper
Idioma:en_US
Publicado em: Cambridge, MA: Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2013
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Acesso em linha:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/79387