, political, and family networks for 1,290 large East Asian firms. We find that professional networks buoyed performance during … the 2008 financial crisis; political and family networks did not. We provide evidence that information access is a key … mechanism underlying the effect of professional networks. A one standard deviation improvement to a firm's professional network …

for employees to work in co-ethnic firms. It argues that strong social networks and related high intra-group trust …

Recent empirical evidence suggests that financial networks exhibit a core periphery network structure. This paper aims …-response dynamics converge to a unique unilaterally stable outcome ranging from an empty to denser networks as the costs of linking …