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In this article, we study Europe's monetary geography on the eve of the Industrial Revolution. Our unit of analysis is the city and we explore inter-city linkages. Important findings include a considerable degree of integration and multilateralism with monetary centers having already emerged as...
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shows the dealer network has a core-periphery structure. Central dealers are more efficient at matching buyers and sellers …
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We study from both a theoretical and an empirical perspective how a network of military alliances and enmities affects … the intensity of a conflict. The model combines elements from network theory and from the politico-economic theory of … characterization of the Nash equilibrium of the fighting game, and of how the network structure affects individual and total fighting …
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The conditions under which young workers find their first real post-graduation jobs are both very important for the young’ future careers and insufficiently documented given their potential importance for young workers welfare. To study these conditions, and in particular the role played by...
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by a network of unpaid software developers. Using data from Sourceforge.net, the largest repository of Open Source … Software (OSS) projects and contributors on the Internet, we construct two related networks: A Project network and a … Contributor network. Knowledge spillovers may be closely related to the structure of such networks, since contributors who work on …
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often also that consumers make the proper usage decisions. This paper studies investment and usage in a shared ATM network … whether to withdraw cash at ATMs or branches. We find that banks substantially underinvested in the shared ATM network and … with partial incompatibility. Furthermore, we find that consumer usage of the available ATM network is too low because of …
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There is a well-established high quality literature on the role of networks, particularly ethnic networks, in international trade. Ethnic networks are a way of overcoming informal barriers (information costs, risk and uncertainty) to trade by building trust and substituting for the difficulty of...
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to a distribution network is essential to the ability to compete, we show that this is not the case. Instead, the access … owner of the network. …
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This study examines the extent to which the transition from university education to work is characterized by persistent hiring flows between university faculties and firms, rather than being characterized by an open market process. Using a specially devised metric, I find that more than one-half...
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When the 1987 general elections brought a durable government to Portugal, the national environment was still …
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