[eng] While adopting an approach of innovation diffusion in terms of interacting agents, we emphasise the role of cumulated influence in the context of social networks. We first introduce a cumulative effect in the classical epidemic model which involves a slower starting phase followed by a...

[eng] The role of social networks in innovation diffusion remains a strategic question. In former works, we have introduced a relational learning, based on hebbian rule, that leads to a critical state, in which few agents reach structural positions of opinion leaders. In this paper, we show that...

We provide the first empirical application of a new approach proposed by Lee (2007) to estimate peer effects in a linear-in-means model. This approach allows to control for group-level unobservables and to solve the reflection problem. We investigate peer effects in student achievement in...