empirically tests a different hypothesis, which is that constitutions are also shaped by transnational influence, or “diffusion …”. Constitutional rights can diffuse through four mechanisms: coercion, competition, learning and acculturation. To test diffusion, we …, the same religion, the same former colonizer, and the same aid donor. We also find that diffusion explains only 3 percent …

stable networks and their natural extensions.These properties can be identified as convexity conditions on the network payoff …

networks) and courts to secure cooperation among heterogeneous, impersonal transactors. We find that communities and courts are …

and lower Tobin's Q. These findings help to understand how social networks are related to companies' performances …. Although social networks help to resolve agency problems between lenders and borrowers in firms that have difficulties in …

delete any subset of links under their control.We examine the properties of strongly pairwise stable networks and find that … such networks.We show that for the component-wise egalitarian rule there is no conflict between the efficient and stable … networks when these middlemen have no incentive to break up the network. Finally, we examine efficiency and stability in …