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Social Networks and Labor Market Inequality between Ethnicities and Races
Toomet, Ott; Leij, Marco van der; Rolfe, Meredith - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012
unexplained racial/ethnic wage differentials on the one hand and social network segregation, as measured by inbreeding homophily … between the size of the differential and network segregation: regions with more segregated social networks exhibit larger …
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The Emergence of Social Structure: Employer Information Networks in an Experimental Labor Market
Gerxhani, Klarita; Brandts, Jordi; Schram, Arthur - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011
This discussion paper resulted in an article in <I>Social Networks</I> (2013). Volume 35, issue 4, pages 541-560.<P> We use laboratory experiments to investigate how employers develop social structures for sharing information about the trustworthiness of job candidates, when worker opportunism is...</p></i>
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The Formation of a Core Periphery Structure in Heterogeneous Financial Networks
Daan in 't Veld; Leij, Marco van der; Hommes, Cars - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014
Recent empirical evidence suggests that financial networks exhibit a core periphery network structure. This paper aims at giving an economic explanation for the emergence of such a structure using network formation theory. Focusing on intermediation benefits, we find that a core periphery...
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From Tradition to Modernity: Economic Growth in a Small World
Lindner, Ines; Strulik, Holger - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012
Accepted for publication in the <I>Journal of Development Economics</I>.<P> This paper introduces the Small World model (Watts and Strogatz, Nature, 1998) into the theory of economic growth and investigates how increasing economic integration affects firm size and efficiency, norm enforcement, and...</p></i>
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Confirming Information Flows in Networks
Billand, Pascal; Bravard, Christophe; Kamphorst, Jurjen; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012
Social networks, be it on the internet or in real life, facilitate information flows. We model this by giving agents incentives to link with others and receive information through those links. In many networks agents will value confirmation of the information they receive from others. Our paper...
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Diffusion of Behavior in Network Games Orchestrated by Social Learning
Huang, Jia-Ping; Koster, Maurice; Lindner, Ines - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013
The novelty of our model is to combine models of collective action on networks with models of social learning. Agents are connected according to an undirected graph, the social network, and have the choice between two actions: either to adopt a new behavior or technology or stay with the default...
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One-way Flow Networks: the Role of Heterogeneity
Galeotti, Andrea - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004
I study a one-way flow connections model in which players are heterogeneous with respect to values and the costs of establishing a link. I first show that values and costs asymmetries are crucial in determining the level of connectedness of a network. Interestingly, unconnected equilibria are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256410
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Two-way Flow Networks with Small Decay
Jaegher, K. De; Kamphorst, J.J.A. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2010
This discussion paper resulted in a forthcoming article in the <I>Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization</I>.<P> This paper characterizes the set of equilibrium networks in the two-way flow model of network formation with small decay, and this for all increasing benefit functions of the players. We...</p></i>
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Exploitation and Cooperation in Networks
Galeotti, Andrea; Meléndez, Miguel - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004
A fundamental question in social sciences is how trust emerges. We provide an answer which relies on the formation of social and economic relationships. We argue that behind trust lies the fact that individuals invest in connections taking into account the potential externalities networks...
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How Diverse can Spatial Measures of Cultural Diversity be? Results from Monte Carlo Simulations on an Agent-Based Model
Arribas-Bel, Daniel; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014
distribution of culturally-defined groups 'such as segregation, isolation or concentration indexes' are often only capable of … detailed geographical context of the city of Amsterdam. Schelling's classical segregation model is used as the theoretical … interpreted as revealing unobserved preferences for co-location of individuals with their own group and find that the segregation …
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