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This paper investigates the private provision of public goods in segregated societies. While most research agrees that segregation undermines public provision, the findings are mixed for private provision: social interactions, being strong within groups and limited across groups, may either...
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We present experiments on repeated non-cooperative network formation games, based on Bala and Goyal (2000). We treat the one-way and the two-ways flow models, each for high and low link costs. The models show both multiple equilibria and coordination problems. We conduct experiments under...
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In a society composed of a ruler and its citizens: what are the determinants of the political equilibrium between these two? This paper approaches this problem as a game played between a ruler who has to decide the distribution of the aggregate income and a group of agents/citizens who have the...
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Global Innovation Networks (GINs), to shed light on how the protection of intellectual property rights (IPRs) influences …
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networks can provide new insights for both theory and practice, and identifying several avenues for future research. The paper …
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Many types of economic and social activities involve significant behavioral complementarities (peer effects) with neighbors in the social network. The same activities often exert externalities that cumulate in "stocks" affecting agents' welfare and incentives. For instance, smoking is subject to...
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optimal. Keywords: Networks, information transmission, search, organization design. …
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under strong market rivalry a conflict between stable and efficient networks is likely to occur. A key finding of the paper …
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We study (anti-) coordination problems in networks in a laboratory experiment. Partici- pants interact with their …
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We examine how three different communication processes operating through social networks are affected by homophily … friendship networks from the Adolescent Health dataset. …
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