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Nieken, Petra; Walther, Sven - 2024

Remote work arrangements and increased virtual communication are commonplace. Particularly in organizations, virtual … communication has become an essential tool for collaboration and exchanging information. Virtual communication channels, such as … text or video messages, provide different levels of human presence compared to face-to-face communication. Given that human …

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Social networks and housing markets

Bailey, Michael; Cao, Ruiqing; Kuchler, Theresa; … - 2016

The recent house price experiences within an individual's social network affect her perceptions of the attractiveness of property investments, and through this channel have large effects on her housing market activity. Our data combine anonymized social network information from Facebook with...

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Dissonance minimization and conversation in social networks

Anufriev, Mikhail; Borissov, Kirill; Pakhnin, Mikhail - 2021

We study a model of social learning in networks where the dynamics of beliefs are driven by conversations of dissonance-minimizing agents. Given their current beliefs, agents make statements, tune them to the statements of their associates, and then revise their beliefs. We characterize the...

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Crowdfunding dynamics

Belleflamme, Paul; Lambert, Thomas; Schwienbacher, Armin - 2019 - This version: August 9, 2019

Various forms of social learning and network effects are at work on crowdfunding platforms, giving rise to informational and payoff externalities. We use novel entrepreneur-backer data to study how these externalities shape funding dynamics, within and across projects. We find that backers...

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The geographic spread of COVID-19 correlates with structure of social networks as measured by Facebook

Kuchler, Theresa; Russel, Dominic; Stroebel, Johannes - 2020

We use anonymized and aggregated data from Facebook to show that areas with stronger social ties to two early COVID-19 “hotspots” (Westchester County, NY, in the U.S. and Lodi province in Italy) generally have more confirmed COVID-19 cases as of March 30, 2020. These relationships hold after...

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Bound by borders : voter mobilization through social networks

Cox, Gary W.; Fiva, Jon H.; King, Max-Emil M. - 2023

A vast and growing quantitative literature considers how social networks shape political mobilization but the degree to which turnout decisions are strategic remains ambiguous. Unlike previous studies, we establish personal links between voters and candidates and exploit discontinuous incentives...

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Online versus offline : which networks spur protests?

Potrafke, Niklas; Rösel, Felix - 2022

Does social media or offline social cohesion overcome collective action problems more effectively when both types of networks are prevalent? We investigate non-violent protests against a place-based economic reform in Austria - a country where one in two citizens uses Facebook but also one in...

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Selection, consumption, and new music exploration in an online social network : a dyadic approach

Loh, Johannes - 2022

We study peer influence in an online social network on a platform where consumers purchase music albums. They can follow their peers and become informed about their consumption choices. In particular, we are interested in how this affects consumers' exploration of new music that exhibits...

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Do Twitter's science stars get a citation premium?

Lessmann, Christian; Önder, Ali Sina - 2023

We analyze whether the social media popularity of Twitter star scientists, who were identified by Science in a 2014 report, pays off in terms of an increased number of citations. To establish a causal relationship, we use the COVID-19 global pandemic as a quasi-natural experiment exogenously...

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Who is AI replacing? : the impact of generative AI on online freelancing platforms

Demirci, Ozge; Hannane, Jonas; Zhu, Xinrong - 2024

This paper studies the impact of Generative AI technologies on the demand for online freelancers using a large dataset from a leading global freelancing platform. We identify the types of jobs that are more affected by Generative AI and quantify the magnitude of the heterogeneous impact. Our...

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