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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

village leaders and geographically central individuals. …

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The Influence of Others on Migration Plans

Epstein, Gil S; Gang, Ira - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

on migration decisions, we rely on the concepts of migration networks and herd effects. …

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Networks of Relations and Social Capital

Lippert, Steffen; Spagnolo, Giancarlo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

We model networks of relational (or implicit) contracts, exploring how sanctioning power and equilibrium conditions … and in-network information transmission as well as conditions under which stable sub-networks inhibit more valuable larger … networks. The model provides formal definitions for individual and communities’ ‘social capital’ in the spirit of Coleman and …

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The Impact of Economics Blogs

McKenzie, David J.; Özler, Berk - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

There is a proliferation of economics blogs, with increasing numbers of economists attracting large numbers of readers, yet little is known about the impact of this new medium. Using a variety of experimental and non-experimental techniques, we try to quantify some of their effects. First, links...

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Contracting With Synergies

Edmans, Alex; Goldstein, Itay; Zhu, John - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

This paper studies multi-agent optimal contracting with cost synergies. We model synergies as the extent to which effort by one agent reduces his colleague's marginal cost of effort. An agent's pay and effort depend on the synergies he exerts, the synergies his colleagues exert on him and,...

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Enhancing the Efficiency of Water Supply – Product Market Competition versus Trade

Foellmi, Reto; Meister, Urs - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

when mergers are not feasible. Because both approaches require the physical connection of neighboring networks, they may …

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On the Distribution of Income and Worker Assignment under Intra-Firm Spillovers, with an Application to Ideas And Networks

Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999

We study the earnings structure and the equilibrium assignment of workers when they exert intra-firm spillovers on each other. We allow for arbitrary spillovers provided output depends on some aggregate index of workers' skill. Despite the possibility of increasing returns to skills, equilibrium...

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Technology, Organization and Productivity in Services: Lessons from Britain and the United States Since 1870

Broadberry, Stephen N; Ghosal, Sayantan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

provided, focusing on the transition from networks to hierarchies. Four general lessons are drawn: (1) developments in services …

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Subadditivity Tests for Network Separation with an Application to US Railroads

Ivaldi, Marc; McCullough, Gerard - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

We describe a pair of subadditivity tests that can be used to evaluate the technological feasibility of separating a vertically integrated network monopoly into a common infrastructure component and competing operating components. We implement the tests with a Generalized McFadden cost function...

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Inter-Firm Relationships and Informal Credit in Vietnam

McMillan, John; Woodruff, Christopher - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

through business networks receive more credit. These network effects are enduring, suggesting that networks are used to …

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