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Retail Chain Expansion: The Early Years of McDonalds in Great Britain
Toivanen, Otto; Waterson, Michael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
Understanding the development of chainstores is important given the large GDP share of services and the continuing importance of chains in bringing these services to market. Service chains provide a puzzle because they take a long time to develop even when there are obvious expansion...
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Key Players
Zenou, Yves - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
networks and diffusion of microfinance. We show that implementing such a policy outperforms other standard policies such as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011096104
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The Economic Consequences of Social Network Structure
Jackson, Matthew O.; Rogers, Brian; Zenou, Yves - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
concerning the role of those characteristics in determining learning, diffusion, decisions, and resulting behaviors. We also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011165640
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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
who are most central in a network according to "diffusion centrality", which nests other standard centrality measures … diffusion central (not just those with many friends). Moreover, these nominees are more central in the network than traditional …
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Neighbours and Extension Agents in Ethiopia: Who matters more for technology diffusion?
Krishnan, Pramila; Patnam, Manasa - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
. However, as in much of sub-Saharan Africa, the adoption and diffusion of such technologies has been slow. We use data from the …
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The Diffusion of Microfinance
Banerjee, Abhijit; Chandrasekhar, Arun G; Duflo, Esther; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
have higher eigenvector centrality. We estimate structural models of diffusion that allow us to (i) determine the relative …
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Spreading the Word: Geography, Policy and University Knowledge Diffusion
Belenzon, Sharon; Schankerman, Mark - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
maps, we study how geography affects university knowledge diffusion. We show that knowledge flows from patents are …
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