In this paper, we examine possible types of network formation among immigrants in the diaspora and between those … network structure on the country of origin, such as on international trade. We find that when the size of the diaspora is …

Starting in mid-2007, the global financial crisis quickly metamorphosed from the bursting of the housing bubble in the … US to the worst recession the world has witnessed for over six decades. Through an in-depth review of the crisis in terms … suggested, while at the same time the majority of the world’s poor had benefited insufficiently from stronger economic growth …

plays on the world stage. The main thesis of our work is that, despite the triumphant rhetoric praising the merits of …

particular, we look at measures of reforms in international trade, agriculture, network industries, and financial markets. We …

risk sharing. In this paper, we provide a comprehensive empirical evaluation of the patterns of risk sharing among … different groups of countries and examine how international financial integration has affected the evolution of risk sharing … patterns. Using a variety of empirical techniques, we conclude that there is at best a modest degree of international risk …

network formation. While the physics/applied mathematics approach is capable of reproducing most observed networks, it does … does a poor job in matching real-world networks. We also analyze behaviors on networks, which take networks as given and … results with those obtained in sociology. -- Random graph ; game theory ; centrality measures ; network formation ; weak and …

When workers send applications to vacancies they create a network. Frictions arise because workers typically do not … friction affects network formation, while the second coordination friction affects network clearing. We show that those … that can arise and the number of matches on a given network. Equilibria that exhibit wage dispersion are inefficient in …

) embedded in a network have to decide how much effort they exert in some activity (say education). We show that the more central … minority agents are in the social network, the more they assimilate to the majority culture. We also show that denser networks … tend to favor assimilation so that, for example, it is easier to assimilate in a complete network than in a star …