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peer, neighborhood and network effects and the policy implications of integrating the social and the geographical space …
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We analyze a model of network formation with agents that belong to different communities and an endogenous cost … connection decrease with distance in the network, while the cost of a link depends on the type of agents involved in it as well … individual positions in the network. We derive a number of results with regard to equilibrium networks: (i) socialization among …
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We study from both a theoretical and an empirical perspective how a network of military alliances and enmities affects … the intensity of a conflict. The model combines elements from network theory and from the politico-economic theory of … characterization of the Nash equilibrium of the fighting game, and of how the network structure affects individual and total fighting …
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It has been widely documented that the poor spend a significant proportion of their income on gifts even at the expense of basic consumption. We test three competing explanations of this phenomenon--peer effect, status concern, and risk pooling--based on a census-type primary household survey in...
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This paper draws together, in the form of a survey, a number of different aspects of the United Kingdom's international migration experience since the Second World War. The areas covered include changes in the volume and composition of international migration and the factors influencing...
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Switzerland has experienced a substantial influx of immigrants over the 50 years since World War II, to the extent that it now has one of the highest share of foreigners in population among OECD countries. This paper analyses Switzerland’s experience of migration, centring on two main issues:...
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migrants who arrive through family reunification are less likely to work full-time; refugees are also less self-employed. Those …
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We consider a network game with strategic complementarities where the individual reward or the strength of interactions … disentangling the information effects from the network effects and show that the equilibrium effort of each agent is a weighted … the weights are its eigenvectors. We then study the impact of incomplete information on a network policy which aim is to …
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targeting a set of network nodes that are optimally positioned to quickly diffuse information, attitudes, behaviors or goods. We … targeting the most active agents in a network. …
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We survey the literatures on the economic consequences of the structure of social networks. We develop a taxonomy of 'macro' and 'micro' characteristics of social inter-action networks and discuss both the theoretical and empirical findings concerning the role of those characteristics in...
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