migrants form social links among them and the extent to which this network provides them with material support along three …

network structure and we examine equilibrium selection. Specifically, actions are either strategic substitutes or strategic … complements, and participants have either complete or incomplete information about the structure of a random network. Since … for reduced exposure to loss, and 2) uncertainty about the network structure makes it considerably more difficult to …

A large literature has studied how peers affect behavior by exploiting the preexisting social network structure only … unique panel dataset that contains detailed information on the network of informal financial transactions before and after a … structure of the network of informal financial transactions among households. Second, we estimate a panel model of peer effects …

In this paper, we examine possible types of network formation among immigrants in the diaspora and between those … network structure on the country of origin, such as on international trade. We find that when the size of the diaspora is …

) embedded in a network have to decide how much effort they exert in some activity (say education). We show that the more central … minority agents are in the social network, the more they assimilate to the majority culture. We also show that denser networks … tend to favor assimilation so that, for example, it is easier to assimilate in a complete network than in a star …

maximize it. Through the links in the collaboration network, researchers create spillovers not only to their direct coauthors … possibly overlapping projects. We bring our model to the data by analyzing the coauthorship network of economists registered in … the coauthorship network. Moreover, we analyze funding instruments for individual researchers as well as research …

Business and politician interaction is pervasive but has mostly been analysed with a binary approach. Yet the network … our analysis is to identify how location in a network, including extent of ties and centrality, are correlated with firm … scale and performance. In a binary approach such network characteristics are omitted and the scale and economic impact of …

the effects of network types (kinship/non-kinship) and network resources (information/influence) on job attainment and … in the networks are not important. This conundrum can be reconciled if we take the structure of the network and the type …