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Weyl, E. Glen - In: American Economic Review 100 (2010) 4, pp. 1642-72

I develop a general theory of monopoly pricing of networks. Platforms use insulating tariffs to avoid coordination …

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Systemic Risk and Stability in Financial Networks

Acemoglu, Daron; Ozdaglar, Asuman; Tahbaz-Salehi, Alireza - In: American Economic Review 105 (2015) 2, pp. 564-608

This paper argues that the extent of financial contagion exhibits a form of phase transition: as long as the magnitude of negative shocks affecting financial institutions are sufficiently small, a more densely connected financial network (corresponding to a more diversified pattern of interbank...

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Stability in Supply Chain Networks

Ostrovsky, Michael - In: American Economic Review 98 (2008) 3, pp. 897-923

This paper studies matching in vertical networks, generalizing the theory of matching in two-sided markets. It gives … sufficient conditions for the existence of stable networks and presents an algorithm for finding two of them. One is the best …. The paper describes several properties of the set of stable networks and discusses applications of the theory to the …

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Price Discrimination and Bargaining: Empirical Evidence from Medical Devices

Grennan, Matthew - In: American Economic Review 103 (2013) 1, pp. 145-77

Many important issues in business-to-business markets involve price discrimination and negotiated prices, situations where theoretical predictions are ambiguous. This paper uses new panel data on buyer-supplier transfers and a structural model to empirically analyze bargaining and price...

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Submission Fees and Response Times in Academic Publishing

Cotton, Christopher - In: American Economic Review 103 (2013) 1, pp. 501-09

Both submission fees and response times enable editors to maintain an acceptable refereeing burden by discouraging the submission of articles with low probability of acceptance. When authors differ in their ability or willingness to pay submission fees and deal with delays, journal quality is...

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The Network Structure of International Trade

Chaney, Thomas - In: American Economic Review 104 (2014) 11, pp. 3600-3634

Motivated by empirical evidence I uncover on the dynamics of French firms exports, I offer a novel theory of trade frictions. Firms only export into markets where they have a contact. They directly search for new trading partners, but also use their existing network of contacts to remotely...

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Departure Times in Y-Shaped Traffic Networks with Multiple Bottlenecks

Daniel, Terry E.; Gisches, Eyran J.; Rapoport, Amnon - In: American Economic Review 99 (2009) 5, pp. 2149-76

We study the departure time decisions of commuters traversing a traffic network with the goal of arriving at a common destination at a specified time. There are costs associated with arriving either too early or too late, and with delays experienced at bottlenecks. Our main hypothesis, based on...

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Strategic Interaction and Networks

Yann Bramoull?; Kranton, Rachel; D'Amours, Martin - In: American Economic Review 104 (2014) 3, pp. 898-930

Geography and social links shape economic interactions. In industries, schools, and markets, the entire network determines outcomes. This paper analyzes a large class of games and obtains a striking result. Equilibria depend on a single network measure: the lowest eigenvalue. This paper is the...

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Consumption Risk-Sharing in Social Networks

Ambrus, Attila; Mobius, Markus; Szeidl, Adam - In: American Economic Review 104 (2014) 1, pp. 149-82

capita number of connections that groups have with the rest of the community. "Two-dimensional" networks?like real …-world networks in Peruvian villages?are sufficiently expansive to allow very good risk-sharing. (ii) In second- best arrangements …

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Transaction Networks: Evidence from Mobile Money in Kenya

Jack, William; Ray, Adam; Suri, Tavneet - In: American Economic Review 103 (2013) 3, pp. 356-61

are achieved through deeper financial integration and expanded informal networks. Active networks are more geographically …

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