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Bougheas, Spiros - 2017

We study the formation of networks in environments where agents derive benefits from other agents directly linked to them but suffer losses through contagion when any agent on a path connected to them is hit by a shock. We first consider networks with undirected links (e.g. epidemics,...

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Social networks and unraveling in labor markets

Fainmesser, Itay P. - 2010

This paper studies the phenomenon of early hiring in entry-level labor markets (e.g. the market for gastroenterology fellowships and the market for judicial clerks) in the presence of social networks. We offer a two-stage model in which workers in training institutions reveal information on...

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Cultural change through writing style: Gendered pronoun use in the economics profession

García Jimeno, Camilo; Parsa, Sahar - 2024

Through their writing, people often reflect their values. Since the 1970s, academic economists have gradually changed their third-person pronoun choices, from using the masculine form to incorporating feminine and plural forms. We document this transition empirically, and examine the role of...

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The Strength of Weak Leaders - An Experiment on Social Influence and Social Learning in Teams

Büchel, Berno; Klößner, Stefan; Lochmüller, Martin; … - 2018

We investigate how the selection process of a leader affects team performance with respect to social learning. We use a lab experiment in which an incentivized guessing task is repeated in a star network with the leader at the center. Leader selection is either based on competence, on...

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Friendship Network in the Classroom: Parents Bias and Peer Effects

Landini, Fabio; Montinari, Natalia; Pin, Paolo; … - 2014

We interview both parents and their children enrolled in six primary schools in the district of Treviso (Italy). We study the structural differences between the children network of friends reported by children and the one elicited asking their parents. We find that the parents' network has a...

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Convergence of cultural traits with time-varying self-confidence in the Panebianco (2014) model: A corrigendum

Panebianco, Fabrizio; Prummer, Anja; Siedlarek, Jan-Peter - 2017

We highlight that convergence in repeated averaging models commonly used to study cultural traits or opinion dynamics is not equivalent to convergence in Markov chain settings if transition matrices are time-varying. We then establish a new proof for the convergence of cultural traits in the...

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Assignment Games with Externalities

Gudmundsson, Jens; Habis, Helga - 2013

regarding the others' reaction following a deviation. The relationship of stability and optimality is also discussed, as is the …

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Compromises and Rewards: Stable and Non-manipulable Probabilistic Matching

Gudmundsson, Jens - 2017

Can we reconcile stability with non-manipulability in two-sided matching problems by selecting lotteries over matchings … corresponding notions of ex-ante stability and non-manipulability. For most sets, the properties are incompatible. However, for the … set of utility functions with increasing differences, stability and non-manipulability characterize Compromises and …

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On Efficiency and Stability in Two-way Flow Network with Small Decay: A Note

Charoensook, Banchongsan - 2022

Most literature in strategic network formation shows that there is a substantial tension between stability and …

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Targeted vs. collective information sharing in networks

Kushnir, Alexey; Nichifor, Alexandru - 2014

We introduce a simple two-stage game of endogenous network formation and information sharing for reasoning about the optimal design of social networks like Facebook or Google+. We distinguish between unilateral and bilateral connections and between targeted and collective information sharing....

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