directors, their power gauged by social network power centrality measures. Sudden deaths of powerful independent directors …

are most central in a network according to "diffusion centrality," which nests other standard centrality measures. Testing … central (not just those with many friends). Moreover, these nominees are more central in the network than traditional village …

demographic and social network data in 43 villages in South India before microfinance was introduced in those villages and then … tracked eventual participation. We exploit exogenous variation in the importance (in a network sense) of the people who were …

We define a general class of network formation models, Statistical Exponential Random Graph Models (SERGMs), that nest …' (including ERGMs) parameters estimated from the observation of a single network are consistent (i.e., become accurate as the … exponentially slow mixing times for many specifications, we show that by reformulating network formation as a distribution over the …

We use a network model of credit risk to measure market expectations of the potential spillovers from a sovereign …

of human capital and even the formulation of norms and values. The systematic empirical study of network formation - the … article reviews prominent research on the empirical analysis of network formation, with an emphasis on contributions made by …

network in firm performance. We develop a simple model where firms can outsource tasks and search for suppliers in different …

There are many social situations in which the actions of different agents reinforce each other. These include network …