We examine the long-run effect of homophily in online social networks on interpersonal interactions in local …

In this paper we model the interaction between leaders, their followers and crowd followers in a coordination game with … risk dominant actions in the population. The existence of leaders and their followers, plus the local interaction, which … followership shows that leader followership can also be locally stable around Pareto dominant leaders. The paper answers the …

connections in the presence of convex costs of networking. -- nominations ; rent-seeking ; networks ; politicians ; procurement …

We study a model of social learning in networks where the dynamics of beliefs are driven by conversations of dissonance …

, we find no evidence that urban residents benefit from larger networks when spatial sorting is accounted for. Higher …

and population density of the regions. These results suggest that data from online social networks may prove useful to …

-class absences to construct social networks based on students who miss class together. We simulate these networks and use permutation …

We use aggregated data from Facebook to study the structure of social networks across European regions. Social …