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Bulgaria signed the Europe Association Agreement (EAA) in 1995 and the European Union accession treaty in 2005 …. Accession had the effect of increasing FDI in Bulgaria. We analyze World Bank BEEPS firm level data for 2007 to better … understand characteristics and performance of foreign firms in Bulgaria. We estimate linear probability and logit models to …
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The network of economists who publish in leading journals is generally perceived as small, exclusive, and tightly knit …. We study how author-editor and author-reviewer network connectivity and "match" influences editor decisions and reviewer …
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estimable formulae for the effects of fiscal policies on aggregate GDP, or fiscal multipliers, and show how network structures …
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assumption that the process starts with every node in the network having a signal. We study a natural extension of the DeGroot … agent. This characterization result then allows us to relate network geometry to information aggregation. We identify an … example of a network structure where essentially only the signal of a single agent is aggregated, which helps us pinpoint a …
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organising its national road systems. I then construct a novel dataset of local network inefficiency and I find that colonial …
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for their legislative activity. We propose a novel equilibrium concept for the network formation game that allows for a …
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Financial network structure is an important determinant of systemic risk. This paper examines how the U.S. interbank … network evolved over a long and important period that included two key events: the founding of the Federal Reserve and the …, initially reducing overall network concentration. The network became even more focused on Fed cities during the Depression, as …
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for VC firms with less central network positions, and for deals made in "hot" investment markets …
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The old boys' club refers to the alleged advantage that male employees have over their female counterparts in interacting with powerful men. For example, male employees may schmooze with their managers in ways that female employees cannot. We study this phenomenon using data from a large...
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, summary network parameters (e.g., the degree distribution or transitivity index); and (iii) empirical models of strategic … network formation admitting interdependencies in preferences. Current research challenges and open questions are also …
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