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Gossip and the Efficiency of Interactions

Fehr, Dietmar - 2016

Human communication in organizations often involves a large amount of gossiping about others. Here we study in an …

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Identity, Communication, and Conflict : An Experiment

Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Chowdhury, Subhasish; Dimova, Ralitza - 2023

of the extent they involve conflict over time. Overall, the results indicate that inter-personal communication may help …

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In Search of Stars : Network Formation among Heterogeneous Agents

Goeree, Jacob K.; Riedl, Arno; Ule, Aljaz - 2021

This paper reports results from a laboratory experiment on network formation among heterogeneous agents. The experimental design extends the Bala-Goyal (2000) model of network formation with decay and two-way flow of benefits by allowing for agents with lower linking costs or higher benefits to...

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Exposing Corruption : Can Electoral Competition Discipline Politicians?

Afridi, Farzana - 2016

In developing countries with weak institutions, there is implicitly a large reliance on elections to instill norms of accountability and reduce corruption. In this paper we show that electoral discipline may be ineffective in reducing corruption when political competition is too high or too low....

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The Effect of Labor Migration on the Diffusion of Democracy : Evidence from a Former Soviet Republic

Omar Mahmoud, Toman - 2014

Migration contributes to the circulation of goods, knowledge, and ideas. Using community and individual-level data from Moldova, we show that the emigration wave that started in the late 1990s strongly affected electoral outcomes and political preferences in Moldova during the following decade...

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An Experimental Study on the Effects of Communication, Credibility, and Clustering in Network Games

Charness, Gary - 2019

networks, such coordination may be very difficult to achieve and may depend on the communication technology and the network … structure. We examine how pre-play communication and clustering within networks affect coordination in a challenging … outcome in our game, but restricted communication (where subjects can only indicate their intended action) is almost entirely …

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Social Networks

Martí, Joan de - 2009

We survey the literature on social networks by putting together the economics, sociological and physics/applied mathematics approaches, showing their similarities and differences. We expose, in particular, the two main ways of modeling network formation. While the physics/applied mathematics...

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Special Interest Groups Versus Voters and the Political Economics of Attention

Balles, Patrick - 2018

Asymmetric information between voters and legislative representatives poses a major challenge to the functioning of representative democracy. We examine whether representatives are more likely to serve long-term campaign donors instead of constituents during times of low media attention to...

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How Do Voters Respond to Information? Evidence from a Randomized Campaign

Kendall, Chad - 2013

Rational voters update their subjective beliefs about candidates' attributes with the arrival of information, and subsequently base their votes on these beliefs. Information accrual is, however, endogenous to voters' types and difficult to identify in observational studies. In a large scale...

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Selfish and Prospective : Theory and Evidence of Pocketbook Voting

Elinder, Mikael; Jordahl, Henrik; Poutvaara, Panu - 2021

We present and test a theory of prospective and retrospective pocketbook voting. Focusing on two large reforms in …

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