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We empirically investigate the existence of spatial autocorrelation between military dictatorships in Sub-Saharan Africa from 1977 through 2007. We apply a Bayesian SAR probit regression, extended to a pooled model. We find a robust and positive spatial autocorrelation coefficient, which shows a...
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on productivity, or have operated indirectly as barriers to the diffusion of productivity-enhancing innovations across …
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This paper examines how product market competition affects firms’ timing of adopting a new technology as well as whether the market provides sufficient adoption incentives. It shows that adoption dates differ not only among symmetric firms but also among markets with Cournot and Bertrand...
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large and complex market. Our study generates several interesting results related to the adoption and diffusion of Health …
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who are members of networks that informally sanction hold-ups or children who keep profits “in the family” even if they … spin out. This is shown to predict the association of co-ethnic networks with high rates of entrepreneurship and the …
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Merchant guilds have been portrayed as “social networks“ that generated beneficial “social capital“ by sustaining …
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innovation. But it finds that guilds were social networks that generated a social capital of shared norms, common information …
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This paper links the two nascent economic literatures on social networks and cultural assimilation by investigating the …
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relates to digital social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, or to some extent Google. Both innovations lead to strong …
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Communist government in Europe. Our results are suggestive of information transmission and cultural diffusion channels …
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