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Formation of Bargaining Networks Via Link Sharing

Priazhkina, Sofia; Page, Frank - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2014

. The equilibrium rents are determined for all firms based on their collateral and bargaining power. When a stable …

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Marketing via Friends: Strategic Diffusion of Information in Social Networks with Homophily

Chuhay, Roman - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010

The paper studies the impact of homophily on the optimal strategies of a monopolist, whose marketing campaign of new product relies on a word of mouth communication. Homophily is a tendency of people to interact more with those who are similar to them. In the model there are two types of...

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Building Up Social Capital in a Changing World: A Network Approach

Vega-Redondo, Fernando - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2003

This paper models the dynamic process through which a large society may succeed in building up its “social capital” by establishing a stable and dense pattern of interaction among its members. In the model, agents interact according to a collection of infinitely repeated Prisoner’s...

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Social Capital and Labour Productivity in Italy

Sabatini, Fabio - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006

This paper carries out an empirical assessment of the relationship between social capital and labour productivity in small and medium enterprises in Italy. By means of structural equations models, the analysis investigates the effect of different aspects of the multifaceted concept of social...

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The Empirics of Social Capital and Economic Development: A Critical Perspective

Sabatini, Fabio - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006

This paper provides an introduction to the concept of social capital, and carries out a critical review of the empirical literature on social capital and economic development. The survey points out six main weaknesses affecting the empirics of social capital. Identified weaknesses are then used...

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Social Capital, Public Spending and the Quality of Economic Development: The Case of Italy

Sabatini, Fabio - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006

This paper carries out an empirical assessment of the relationship between social capital and the quality of economic development in Italy. The analysis draws on a dataset collected by the author including about two hundred variables representing different aspects of economic development and...

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Coalition Governments in a Model of Parliamentary Democracy

Bandyopadhyay, Siddhartha; Oak, Mandar - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006

We analyze the relative importance of party ideology and rents from office in the formation of coalitions in a … they may be ideologically `disconnected'. The coalitions that form depend upon the relative importance of rents of office … and seat shares of the parties. If rents are high, governments cannot be surplus. With low rents or the formateur close to …

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Juvenile Delinquency and Conformism

Patacchini, Eleonora; Zenou, Yves - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010

This paper studies whether conformism behavior affects individual outcomes in crime. We present a social network model of peer effects with ex-ante heterogeneous agents and show how conformism and deterrence affect criminal activities. We then bring the model to the data by using a very detailed...

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A Social Network Analysis of Occupational Segregation

Leij, Marco J. van der; Buhai, I. Sebastian - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2008

We develop a social network model of occupational segregation between different social groups, generated by the existence of positive inbreeding bias among individuals from the same group. If network referrals are important for job search, then expected homophily in the contact network structure...

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How Homophily Affects Learning and Diffusion in Networks

Golub, Benjamin; Jackson, Matthew O. - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2009

We examine how three different communication processes operating through social networks are affected by homophily - the tendency of individuals to associate with others similar to themselves. Homophily has no effect if messages are broadcast or sent via shortest paths; only connection density...

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