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change under different network configurations and information transmission technologies. In our model relations are the links …, and the value of the network lies in its ability to enforce cooperative agreements that could not be sustained if agents … had no access to other network members’ sanctioning power and information. We identify conditions for network stability …
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The conditions under which young workers find their first real post-graduation jobs are both very important for the young’ future careers and insufficiently documented given their potential importance for young workers welfare. To study these conditions, and in particular the role played by...
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We study from both a theoretical and an empirical perspective how a network of military alliances and enmities affects … the intensity of a conflict. The model combines elements from network theory and from the politico-economic theory of … characterization of the Nash equilibrium of the fighting game, and of how the network structure affects individual and total fighting …
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This study examines the extent to which the transition from university education to work is characterized by persistent hiring flows between university faculties and firms, rather than being characterized by an open market process. Using a specially devised metric, I find that more than one-half...
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by a network of unpaid software developers. Using data from Sourceforge.net, the largest repository of Open Source … Software (OSS) projects and contributors on the Internet, we construct two related networks: A Project network and a … Contributor network. Knowledge spillovers may be closely related to the structure of such networks, since contributors who work on …
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often also that consumers make the proper usage decisions. This paper studies investment and usage in a shared ATM network … whether to withdraw cash at ATMs or branches. We find that banks substantially underinvested in the shared ATM network and … with partial incompatibility. Furthermore, we find that consumer usage of the available ATM network is too low because of …
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There is a well-established high quality literature on the role of networks, particularly ethnic networks, in international trade. Ethnic networks are a way of overcoming informal barriers (information costs, risk and uncertainty) to trade by building trust and substituting for the difficulty of...
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to a distribution network is essential to the ability to compete, we show that this is not the case. Instead, the access … owner of the network. …
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levels of embeddedness and the associated ability to form ties with several projects within a network—serve boundary … of network ties that undergird the distinct development efforts, the embedded social structures, and the particular … relationships involved in their product-generating efforts. In this paper, we examine whether particular network structures foster …
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It has been widely documented that the poor spend a significant proportion of their income on gifts even at the expense of basic consumption. We test three competing explanations of this phenomenon--peer effect, status concern, and risk pooling--based on a census-type primary household survey in...
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