“…Agents in these models have a preference ordering over the set of networks. Examples include firms' profit when forming R&D networks (Goyal and Joshi, 2003), individuals' utility from communicating with others (Harmsen-van Hout et al, 2013) or receiving information from others (Olaizola and Valenciano, 2014), agents' payoff from bargaining on a network (Gauer and Hellmann, 2017), or researchers' scientific output from collaborating with co-authors (Rêgo and dos Santos, 2019). Since the structure of interaction, i.e.…”