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The Geographic Spread of COVID-19 Correlates with Structure of Social Networks as Measured by Facebook
Kuchler, Theresa - 2020
and population density of the regions. These results suggest that data from online social networks may prove useful to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012835656
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Selection, Consumption, and New Music Exploration in an Online Social Network : A Dyadic Approach
Loh, Johannes - 2022
attributes (e.g. its genre). Together, this suggests that new music exploration in online social networks is limited and subject …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014240871
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Trade Openness and Growth : A Network-Based Approach
Duernecker, Georg; Meyer, Moritz; Vega-Redondo, Fernando - 2021
In this paper, we propose a novel approach to the study of international trade that leads to a measure of country openness that is quite different from the various alternatives proposed by the received literature. In contrast to these, our measure does not use indicators of aggregate trade...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013211116
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How Do Immigrants Promote Exports? Networks, Knowledge, Diversity
Orefice, Gianluca; Rapoport, Hillel; Santoni, Gianluca - 2021
allowing to disentangle various mechanisms such as the role of networks in reducing bilateral transaction costs as well as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013212263
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The Dynamics of Networks and Homophily
Jackson, Matthew O.; Nei, Stephen; Snowberg, Erik; … - 2023
We examine friendships and study partnerships among university students over several years. At the aggregate level, connections increase over time, but homophily on gender and ethnicity is relatively constant across time, university residences, and different network layers. At the individual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014262402
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Academic Migration and Academic Networks: Evidence from Scholarly Big Data and the Iron Curtain
Kamel, Donia; Pollacci, Laura - 2023
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014290287
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International Trade and Social Connectedness
Bailey, Michael - 2020
We use anonymized data from Facebook to construct a new measure of the pairwise social connectedness between 180 countries and 332 European regions. We find that two countries trade more with each other when they are more socially connected and when they share social connections with a similar...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012834994
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Politics in the Facebook Era - Evidence from the 2016 US Presidential Elections
Liberini, Federica - 2020
Through social media, politicians can personalize their campaigns and target specific groups of voters with an unprecedented precision. We assess the effects of such political micro-targeting by exploiting daily advertising prices on Facebook during the 2016 US presidential campaign. We measure...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012835993
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Global Spillovers of Taxation in the Online Advertising Market. Theory and Evidence from Facebook
Lassmann, Andrea - 2020
We analyze the effect and welfare implications of taxing multinational digital platforms on the global online advertising market. Using a novel dataset on advertising prices and product preferences of users from Facebook in OECD countries, jointly with international trade data, we show that an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012839777
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Symptom or Culprit? Social Media, Air Pollution, and Violence
Du, Xinming - 2023
each day. Second, I consider how emotional contagion spreads through social networks. On days with pollution spikes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014259933