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We develop a modification of the connections model by Jackson and Wolinsky (1996) that takes into account negative externalities arising from the connectivity of direct and indirect neighbors, thus combining aspects of the connections model and the co-author model. We consider a general...
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communication network. We provide an explicit link between players' preferences and the equilibrium strategic communication networks … completely Pareto-ranked, but expected social welfare always increases as the communication network expands. …
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the role of social influence on the expectation formation as well as the underlying network structure. It is shown that …. The social network estimated in this way follows a power-law and thus exhibits similar structure as networks observed in …
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We study a stochastic model of influence where agents have yes-no inclinations on some issue, and opinions may change due to mutual influence among the agents. Each agent independently aggregates the opinions of the other agents and possibly herself. We study influence processes modelled by...
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question of interest. Agents repeatedly communicate with their neighbors in the social network, can exert some effort to …
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Most allocation rules for network games presented in the literature assume that the network structure is fixed. We put … periods is stochastic. Time-series of networks are studied that describe processes of network formation where links may appear … or disappear at any period. Moreover, convergence to an efficient network is not necessarily prescribed. Transitions from …
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A well-known model in sociology and marketing is that of opinion leadership. Opinion leaders are actors who are able to affect the behavior of their followers. Hence, opinion leaders have some power over their followers, and they can exercise this power by influencing their followers choice of...
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have initial opinions and are linked through a simply connected network. They update their opinions as in the DeGroot model … the average opinion that eventually emerges in the network. This procedure defines a zero-sum game whose players are the … does depend on the structure of the network. The characterization of equilibrium we obtain emphasizes on the one hand the …
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I investigate the link between business regulatory reforms and economic growth in 172 countries. I create a five year dataset on business regulatory reforms from the World Bank's Doing Business reports. Then, I test the hypothesis that business regulatory reforms increase economic growth, using...
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This paper provides historical and empirical arguments that can explain the development of the Egyptian informal sector. After recalling the various approaches proposed in the literatures, it identifies the configuration that overrides the Egyptian labor market by allowing for the heterogeneity...
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