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linked fields. Our analysis uses 1.8 million U.S. patents and their citation properties to map the innovation network and its … strength. Past innovation network structures are calculated using citation patterns across technology classes during 1975 … predictive power on future innovation after 1995. This pattern is consistent with the idea that when there is more past upstream …
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Migration and trade are often linked through ethnic networks boosting bilateral trade. This study uses migration to … advantages, and it establishes a connection of migration to home country exports beyond bilateral networks. …
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The persistence literature in economics and related disciplines connects recent outcomes to events long ago. This influential literature marks a promising development but has drawn criticism. We discuss two prominent examples that ground the rise of the Nazi Party in distant historical roots....
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We introduce endogenous fire sales into a simple network model. For any given initial distribution of shocks across the network, we develop a clearing algorithm to solve for the financial equilibrium. We then utilise the results to perform ex ante risk assessment and derive risk premia for every...
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This paper develops a theory of oligopoly and markups in general equilibrium. Firms compete in a network of product market rivalries that emerges endogenously out of the characteristics of the products and services they supply. My model embeds a novel, highly tractable and scalable demand system...
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former offers and the rich data source the latter provides, enable the causal identification of the effect of networks on … the question of the importance of academic networks for migration post the fall of the Berlin Wall and Iron Curtain. Using … Microsoft Academic Knowledge Graph, a scholarly big data source, mapping of academics' networks is possible and information …
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This paper studies the effect of coworker-based networks on individual labour market outcomes. I analyse how the … these networks that is due to the occurrence of mass-layoffs in the establishments of former coworkers. The empirical …
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We study an important mechanism underlying employee referrals into informal low skilled jobs in developing countries. Employers can exploit social preferences between employee referees and potential workers to improve discipline. The profitability of using referrals increases with referee stakes...
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integration along ethno-linguistic lines was driven by the formation of ethno-linguistic networks. Finally, the analysis shows …
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generosity with a sequence of dictator games conducted in the field. We find that networks of different dimensions differ … substantially in density, clustering, and centrality. When relating generosity to networks we observe that social distance only …
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