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Risk Sharing, Inequality and Fertility
Hosseini, Roozbeh - 2009
does not alter this result. We also show that the informationally constrained optimal insurance contract has a resetting …
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Network Data
Graham, Bryan S. - 2019
Many economic activities are embedded in networks: sets of agents and the (often) rivalrous relationships connecting them to one another. Input sourcing by firms, interbank lending, scientific research, and job search are four examples, among many, of networked economic activities. Motivated by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480521
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Endogenous Network Formation in Congress
Canen, Nathan - 2016
This paper presents and structurally estimates a model of endogenous network formation and legislative activity of career-motivated politicians. Employing data on socialization and legislative effort of members of the 105th-110th U.S. Congresses, our model reconciles a set of empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455924
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Methods of Identification in Social Networks
Graham, Bryan S. - 2014
Social and economic networks are ubiquitous, serving as contexts for job search, technology diffusion, the accumulation of human capital and even the formulation of norms and values. The systematic empirical study of network formation - the process by which agents form, maintain and dissolve...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458252
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Tyranny of the Personal Network : The Limits of Arm's Length Fundraising in Venture Capital
Howell, Sabrina T. - 2024
The central tension in securities regulation is between protecting investors and enabling broad capital formation. Focusing on VC fund managers, we study key tools of investor protection in private markets: enforcing relationship-based fundraising and restricting eligible investors. A new policy...
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Directed Altruism and Enforced Reciprocity in Social Networks : How Much is A Friend Worth?
Leider, Stephen - 2007
future. We can decompose altruistic preferences into baseline altruism towards any partner and directed altruism towards … friends. Decision makers vary widely in their baseline altruism, but pass at least 50 percent more surplus to friends compared … partners' expectations are well calibrated to directed altruism, but that they ignore decision makers' baseline altruism …
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Network-Based Hiring : Local Benefits; Global Costs
Chandrasekhar, Arun G. - 2020
Entrepreneurs, particularly in the developing world, often hire from their networks: friends, family, and resulting referrals. Network hiring has two benefits, documented extensively in the empirical literature: entrepreneurs know more about the ability of their network (and indeed they are...
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Immigrant Networking and Collaboration : Survey Evidence from CIC
Kerr, Sari Pekkala - 2019
Networking and the giving and receiving of advice outside of one's own firm are important features of entrepreneurship and innovation. We study how immigrants and natives utilize the potential networking opportunities provided by CIC, formerly known as the Cambridge Innovation Center. CIC is...
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Drug Diffusion Through Peer Networks : The Influence of Industry Payments
Agha, Leila - 2019
Pharmaceutical companies' marketing efforts primarily target physicians, often through individual detailing that entails monetary or in-kind transfers. We study how peer influence broadens these payments' reach beyond the directly paid physicians. Combining Medicare prescriptions and Open...
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Who Owned Citibank? Familiarity Bias and Business Network Influences on Stock Purchases, 1925-1929
Calomiris, Charles W. - 2018
We study factors influencing individuals' decisions to purchase Citibank stock during the 1920s. Citibank stock had a very high price per share and was only an investment option for wealthy people. The willingness to own shares was encouraged by proximity to New York, but constraints related to...
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