We study spillover effects within co-offending networks by leveraging deaths of co-offenders for causal identification …

international trade between the different countries, depending on the types of networks formed. We present possible applications of …

of link formation with the middlemen. -- Network formations ; social networks ; assimilation and separation …

We survey the literature on social networks by putting together the economics, sociological and physics … network formation. While the physics/applied mathematics approach is capable of reproducing most observed networks, it does … not explain why they emerge. On the contrary, the economics approach is very precise in explaining why networks emerge but …

friendship networks in the United States. We find that, for religious parents, the higher is the fraction of religious peers, the …

We study some recent developments and challenges in the empirics of the effects of social networks. We focus in …

networks, such coordination may be very difficult to achieve and may depend on the communication technology and the network … structure. We examine how pre-play communication and clustering within networks affect coordination in a challenging … experimental game on eight-person networks. Free-form chat is enormously effective in achieving the nonequilibrium efficient …