This paper examines peer mental health's influence on adolescents' wellbeing, academic performance, and behavior. Using friends-of-friends as an instrument, I find that a one standard deviation increase in friends' mental unwellness is associated with a 0.67 standard deviation increase in one's...

Active labor market programs targeted at older unemployed workers are often believed to be ineffective. We exploit a large-scale randomized experiment involving approximately 50,000 older unemployed workers to evaluate an intensive job search assistance program that focuses on exploiting the...

As part of this bibliometric analysis, the literature on social media persuasiveness and influence is examined between 2010 and 2023. This study explores academic output, influential publications, authors, institutions, and countries in this field by utilising bibliometric analyses, performance...

Post-crisis, micro-entrepreneurs struggle to revive their businesses impacted by the global economic downturn. As businesses shut down, many have also chosen to dive into informal sectors to replace their lost sources of income. This study examined the influence of social trust, social networks,...

Interethnic tensions pose a significant barrier to the socioeconomic advancement of minority groups. This paper investigates the effectiveness of educational entertainment (or edutainment) in promoting interethnic harmony. We carried out a cluster randomized field experiment involving over 3,300...

Businesses have focused on using key opinion leaders (KOLs) to reach their target customers because their use of technology and social media is more and more increasing. KOLs not only interact directly with potential customers but also influence their needs through reviews or testimonials, which...

Business Development (BD) activities have become prevalent in practice, and prior research has demonstrated their potential to enhance and complement the core competencies of enterprises. However, the limited and fragmented existing literature on Business Development highlights the need for a...

This paper reviews the theoretical and empirical foundations of peer and network effects, aiming to bridge insights from both literatures. We first analyze the microfoundations of peer effects through linear-quadratic network games, linking equilibrium behavior to network centrality and...

Innovation drives China's high-quality economic development, with corporate R&D investment being key to innovation. Using data from Chinese A-share non-financial listed firms (2010-2022), this study defines peer firms using a four-dimensional dynamic matching method of "year-industry-ownership...

Motivated by an increasing interest in the influence of corporate boards on environmental and societal organizational outcomes, this study aims to clarify the dynamic interplay among corporate network strategy, board social learning, and board structure in shaping corporate environmental and...

The Epstein files, released between September 2025 and January 2026, offer an unprecedented window into the social and professional network of a convicted sex offender whose ties extended deep into corporate America. We construct a comprehensive sample of all S&P 500 CEOs and board members...

This study aims to explore the relationship between a company manager's activities and their impact on business performance. Networking is considered a worthy factor in professional and organizational success, providing access to important research, industry insights and future partnerships....

The smooth functioning of the repo market is essential to financial stability. However, the market has faced repeated episodes of stress in recent years. This paper examines the resilience of the euro-denominated repo market during recent episodes of elevated financial stress, drawing on...

We conduct an artefactual field experiment in real-existing trade networks to analyze how individual network degree affects bargaining demands and outcomes. We combine data from a bilateral bargaining experiment with data of trade networks in 24 villages in Uganda. To identify the effect of...

We study opinion dynamics in a social network consisting of two groups. Agents update their opinions by conforming to members of their own group while rejecting the views of the opposing group (affective polarization), and by listening to a media outlet that may provide biased information. We...

We replicate Horváth (2025), experimentally studying link formation and effort in a linear-quadratic game with positive externalities. Across five treatments, subjects exert 38-97 percent more effort than the Nash benchmark yet create too few links, depressing payoffs. In groups of five, the...

Based on the SECI knowledge transformation model and the double-loop learning model, we analyze the path and mechanism of transforming entrepreneurial failure experiences into entrepreneurial knowledge at the individual, organizational, and systemic levels. Furthermore, the transformation...

This study investigates how entrepreneurship education delivered through school cooperatives can reduce early school dropout rates and prevent the NEET (Not in Education, Employment, or Training) phenomenon. Drawing on social capital theory, we address the following research questions: (1) What...

Background: The integration of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) into warehouse management is shaped by a broad spectrum of influencing factors, yet practical adoption lagged behind its potential due to scarce quantitative models of factor interdependencies. Methods: This study systematically...

The transition to neighborhood-scale district heating in the Netherlands frequently stalls due to the challenge of achieving a collective agreement among individual homeowners. To explore the micro-dynamics of this collective action problem, this paper introduces an agent-based model that...

This study investigates the evolving trajectories of romance fraud offenders in Ghana through a longitudinal qualitative design grounded in actor-network theory. Drawing on interviews with sixteen self-identified scammers conducted over a four-year period, the research traces how individuals...

Systemic risk in banking systems arises from losses transmitted through networks of contractual exposures. Yet, most widely used measures rely on market-implied volatility and equity prices rather than structural balance sheet fragilities. This paper develops a flow network framework that models...

In December 2025, Australia became the first country to ban youth under 16 years old from holding accounts on major social media platforms, a policy now under consideration in more than a dozen countries and in numerous states. Because social media use is inherently social, the effectiveness of...

This paper analyzes the economic returns to political connections in Brazilian local elections, focusing not only on traditional campaign donations but also on two novel channels: firms that provide goods or services to candidates during campaigns and firms' owners affiliated with parties within...