We study proliferation of an action in binary action network coordination games that are generalized to include global effects. This captures important aspects of proliferation of a particular action or narrative in online social networks, providing a basis to understand their impact on societal...

Networks have always played a special role for human beings in shaping social relations, forming public opinion, and driving economic equilibria. Nowadays, online networked platforms dominate digital markets and capitalization leaderboards, while social networks drive public discussion. Despite...

This study presents a general framework for quantifying network advantage—i.e., the greater expected gains from a given network position over another—on the basis of a discrete choice model with connection intensity. Network advantage originates from the uncertainty of realizing gains from...

We quantify and explain the firm responses and worker impacts of foreign demand shocks to domestic production networks. To capture that firms can be indirectly exposed to such shocks by buying from or selling to domestic firms that import or export, we use Belgian data with information on both...

We estimate the effects of technical barriers to trade (TBT) on machinery imports in international production networks. Using disaggregated detailed product data and the gravity model, we estimate the TBT notifications in two separate measures of TBT, namely cumulative TBT, and TBT dummy,...

Using value-added trade data, inter-country input-output tables and China's industrial economic data, this paper systematically studies the impact of servitization of manufacturing on the upgrading of power status in the global value network. The measurement results show that the servitization...

Global digital infrastructures are essential to the growth of economies, businesses, and society. While the provision and management of such infrastructures have traditionally been the focus of telecommunication providers and governmental agencies, the criticality of control and ownership has...

Since the importance of innovation as a means of industrial development and economic growth has been emphasized, the region has played a key role as an appropriate spatial unit of innovation policy and a spatial scope in which connections and exchanges between innovators are more active....

We exploit the 2011 Japanese natural disaster to investigate the effects of deep disruptions of Japanese parent firms’ production activities on South Korean subsidiaries’ operations. Using a simple DiD specification applied to firms from the KNSO panel database we detail the features of a...

The proposal put forth in this paper is called Effective capital. The objective is to scale resources brought to bear on the SDG’s as efficiently as possible by focusing on outcomes that are normalized across projects and efforts. This allows individual actors and small projects to escape the...