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Productivity Spillovers from Foreign MNEs on Domestic Manufacturing Firms : Is Co-Location Always a Plus?
Mariotti, Sergio; Mutinelli, Marco; Nicolini, Marcella; … - 2011
The paper analyses productivity spillovers from foreign MNEs on domestic manufacturing firms. Using a database on foreign MNEs in Italy, our results reveal that local firms do benefit from the presence of foreign MNEs, and the effect is higher when local and foreign firms in manufacturing...
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Stochastic Stability in the Best Shot Game
Boncinelli, Leonardo - 2010
The best shot game applied to networks is a discrete model of many processes of contribution to local public goods. It …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136154
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How Homophily Affects the Speed of Learning and Best Response Dynamics
Golub, Benjamin - 2012
We examine how the speed of learning and best-response processes depends on homophily: the tendency of agents to associate disproportionately with those having similar traits. When agents' beliefs or behaviors are developed by averaging what they see among their neighbors, then convergence to a...
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Myopic or Farsighted? An Experiment on Network Formation
Mantovani, Marco - 2011
Pairwise stability (Jackson and Wolinsky, 1996) is the standard stability concept in network formation. It assumes myopic behavior of the agents in the sense that they do not forecast how others might react to their actions. Assuming that agents are farsighted, related stability concepts have...
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Strategic Network Interdiction
Hong, Sunghoon - 2011
We develop a strategic model of network interdiction in a non-cooperative game of flow. An adversary, endowed with a bounded quantity of bads, chooses a flow specifying a plan for carrying bads through a network from a base to a target. Simultaneously, an agency chooses a blockage specifying a...
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The Swing Voter's Curse in Social Networks
Buechel, Berno - 2017
We study private communication in social networks prior to a majority vote on two alternative policies. Some (or all …
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Cooperation Through Imitation and Exclusion In Networks
Fosco, Constanza - 2009
in two different, disconnected components. Or there is 'marginalization' of defectors, i.e. connected networks emerge …
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Team Formation in a Network
Kinateder, Markus - 2009
Two project leaders (or entrepreneurs) in a network, which captures social relations, recruit players in a strategic, competitive and time-limited process. Each team has an optimal size depending on the project's quality. This is a random variable with a commonly known distribution. Only the...
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Under-Connected and Over-Connected Networks
Buechel, Berno - 2009
Since the seminal contribution of Jackson & Wolinsky 1996 [A Strategic Model of Social and Economic Networks, JET 71 …, 44-74] it has been widely acknowledged that the formation of social networks exhibits a general conflict between … general results that relate situations of positive externalities with stable networks that cannot be 'too dense' in a well …
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Tragedy of the Commons and Evolutionary Games in Social Networks : The Economics of Social Punishment
Marco, Jorge - 2017
This study revisits the problem of the tragedy of the commons. Extracting agents participate in an evolutionary game in a complex social network and are subject to social pressure if they do not comply with the social norms. Social pressure depends on the dynamics of the resource, the network...
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