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 … levels of embeddedness and the associated ability to form ties with several projects within a network—serve boundary …

The aim of this paper is to investigate whether return migrants are more likely to become entrepreneurs than non … entrepreneurs for returnees but matter for non-migrants. …

We document that the fraction of entrepreneurs who work in the region where they were born is significantly higher than … entrepreneurs because locals can better exploit the financial opportunities available in the region where they were born. This can …

In the large literature on firm performance, economists have given little attention to entrepreneurs. We use deaths of … performance. Using longitudinal data, we find large and sustained effects of entrepreneurs at all levels of the performance … suggest that an often overlooked factor -- individual entrepreneurs -- plays a large role in affecting firm performance. …

unemployment, together with measures of firm performance. We find that strong social ties (parents) are an important determinant …

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 …

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 …

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 …