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Empirics for Economic Growth and Convergence

Quah, Danny - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995

The convergence hypothesis has generated a huge empirical literature: this paper critically reviews some of the earlier key findings, clarifies their implications, and relates them to more recent results. Particular attention is devoted to interpreting convergence empirics. The main findings...

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Do inventors talk to strangers? On proximity and collaborative knowledge creation

Crescenzi, Riccardo; Nathan, Max; Rodriguez-Pose, Andres - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

This paper investigates how physical, organisational, institutional, cognitive, social, and ethnic proximities between … systematically explores the net effects of all these ‘proximities’ on co-patenting. The regression analysis allows us to identify the … less important than organisational, social, and ethnic links. For inventors as a whole, proximities are fundamentally …

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Inter-Firm Relationships and Informal Credit in Vietnam

McMillan, John; Woodruff, Christopher - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

through business networks receive more credit. These network effects are enduring, suggesting that networks are used to …

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Local and Consistent Centrality Measures in Networks

Dequiedt, Vianney; Zenou, Yves - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

The centrality of an agent in a network has been shown to be crucial in explaining different behaviors and outcomes. In this paper, we propose an axiomatic approach to characterize a class of centrality measures for which the centrality of an agent is recursively related to the centralities of...

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Gossip: Identifying Central Individuals in a Social Network

Banerjee, Abhijit; Chandrasekhar, Arun G; Duflo, Esther; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

Can we identify the members of a community who are best- placed to diffuse information simply by asking a random sample of in- dividuals? We show that boundedly-rational individuals can, simply by tracking sources of gossip, identify those who are most central in a network according to...

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Do large departments make academics more productive? Agglomeration and peer effects in research

Bosquet, Clément; Combes, Pierre-Philippe - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

We study the effect of a large set of department characteristics on individual publication records. We control for many individual time-varying characteristics, individual fixed-effects and reverse causality. Department characteristics have an explanatory power that can be as high as that of...

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Cooperative Investment, Uncertainty and Access

Bourreau, Marc; Cambini, Carlo; Hoernig, Steffen - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

We investigate cooperative investment for the deployment of a new infrastructure, and how it interacts with access obligations and demand uncertainty. Co-investment increases total coverage only if service differentiation and/or cost savings from joint investment, in particular due to high...

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Trading and information diffusion in OTC markets

Babus, Ana; Kondor, Péter - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

We model trading and information diffusion in OTC markets, when dealers can engage in many bilateral transactions at the same time. We show that information diffusion is effective, but not efficient. While each bilateral price partially reveals all dealers' private information after a single...

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International Standards and International Trade: Empirical Evidence from ISO 9000 Diffusion

Clougherty, Joseph A.; Grajek, Michal - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

Empirical scholarship on the standards-trade relationship has been held up due to methodological challenges: measurement, varied effects, and endogeneity. Considering the trade-effects of one particular standard (ISO 9000), we surmount methodological challenges by measuring standardization via...

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Growth and Human Capital: A Network Approach

Cavalcanti, Tiago; Giannitsarou, Chryssi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

We study the interactions and dynamics of human capital, growth and inequality by explicitly embedding networks into a …

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