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We explore network effects on generosity for different network dimensions. To this end we elicit multiple network … matters for friendship ties but that structural network variables are important in all network dimensions. Importantly, these … effects are not invariant across different network dimensions. We also find that individual characteristics are unrelated with …
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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 …
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Business and politician interaction is pervasive but has mostly been analysed with a binary approach. Yet the network … our analysis is to identify how location in a network, including extent of ties and centrality, are correlated with firm … scale and performance. In a binary approach such network characteristics are omitted and the scale and economic impact of …
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interprovincial trade, focusing on trade volume and network formation. The results point to positive spillover effects of immigration … find evidence for increased trade volume and network expansion through new trade linkages. …
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the members of a network who are linked with each other by direct social connections. To model the comparisons, we compose … ratio: the network's aggregate level of relative deprivation divided by the aggregate level of the relative deprivation of a … hypothetical network in which one member of the network receives all the income, and it is with this member that the other members …
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The paper argues that networked firms are likely to have an advantage in securing external finance in countries with weak legal and judicial institutions since it helps financial institutions to minimize the underlying agency costs of lending. An analysis of recent BEEPS data from fifteen...
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maximize it. Through the links in the collaboration network, researchers create spillovers not only to their direct coauthors … possibly overlapping projects. We bring our model to the data by analyzing the coauthorship network of economists registered in … the coauthorship network. Moreover, we analyze funding instruments for individual researchers as well as research …
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We investigate whether network closure in the supply chain can explain the heterogeneity observed in import premia … cooperation, computed in terms of network closure, are associated with increasing gains from imports and may promote the use and …
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Using uniquely rich administrative matched employer-employee data, we investigate the impact of formal network …
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) 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 …
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