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The economic history of Argentina presents one of the most dramatic examples of divergence in the modern era. What happened and why? This paper reviews the wide range of competing explanations in the literature and argues that, setting aside deeper social and political determinants, the various...
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This paper analyzes the relationship between crime and agglomeration where the land, labor, product, and crime markets are endogenously determined. We show that in bigger cities there is relatively more crime, a standard stylized fact of most cities in the world. We also show that, in the short...
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Criminals are embedded in a network of relationships. Social ties among criminals are modelled by means of a graph where criminals compete for a bounty and benefit from local interactions with their neighbours. Each criminal decides in a non-cooperative way how much crime effort they will exert....
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Finite population non-cooperative games with linear-quadratic utilities, where each player decides how much action she exerts, can be interpreted as a network game with local payoff complementarities, together with a globally uniform payoff substitutability component and an own concavity effect....
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Using data on name distributions in 95 French departments observed from 1946 to 2002, we investigate spatial and social mechanisms behind the transmission of parental preferences. Drawing inspiration from recent work on social interactions, we develop a simple discrete choice model that predicts...
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networks and diffusion of microfinance. We show that implementing such a policy outperforms other standard policies such as … then examine the empirical tests of the key-player policies for criminal networks, education, R&D networks, financial …
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concerning the role of those characteristics in determining learning, diffusion, decisions, and resulting behaviors. We also …
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who are most central in a network according to "diffusion centrality", which nests other standard centrality measures … diffusion central (not just those with many friends). Moreover, these nominees are more central in the network than traditional …
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. However, as in much of sub-Saharan Africa, the adoption and diffusion of such technologies has been slow. We use data from the …
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have higher eigenvector centrality. We estimate structural models of diffusion that allow us to (i) determine the relative …
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