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Innovation Network
Acemoglu, Daron - 2016
linked fields. Our analysis uses 1.8 million U.S. patents and their citation properties to map the innovation network and its … strength. Past innovation network structures are calculated using citation patterns across technology classes during 1975 … predictive power on future innovation after 1995. This pattern is consistent with the idea that when there is more past upstream …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455897
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Network-Based Hiring : Local Benefits; Global Costs
Chandrasekhar, Arun G. - 2020
Entrepreneurs, particularly in the developing world, often hire from their networks: friends, family, and resulting referrals. Network hiring has two benefits, documented extensively in the empirical literature: entrepreneurs know more about the ability of their network (and indeed they are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479330
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Immigrant Networking and Collaboration : Survey Evidence from CIC
Kerr, Sari Pekkala - 2019
and innovation. We study how immigrants and natives utilize the potential networking opportunities provided by CIC …, formerly known as the Cambridge Innovation Center. CIC is widely considered the center of the Boston entrepreneurial ecosystem …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479465
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Drug Diffusion Through Peer Networks : The Influence of Industry Payments
Agha, Leila - 2019
Pharmaceutical companies' marketing efforts primarily target physicians, often through individual detailing that entails monetary or in-kind transfers. We study how peer influence broadens these payments' reach beyond the directly paid physicians. Combining Medicare prescriptions and Open...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480282
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Network Data
Graham, Bryan S. - 2019
Many economic activities are embedded in networks: sets of agents and the (often) rivalrous relationships connecting them to one another. Input sourcing by firms, interbank lending, scientific research, and job search are four examples, among many, of networked economic activities. Motivated by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480521
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Who Owned Citibank? Familiarity Bias and Business Network Influences on Stock Purchases, 1925-1929
Calomiris, Charles W. - 2018
We study factors influencing individuals' decisions to purchase Citibank stock during the 1920s. Citibank stock had a very high price per share and was only an investment option for wealthy people. The willingness to own shares was encouraged by proximity to New York, but constraints related to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453283
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Social Capital and Labor Market Networks
Asquith, Brian J. - 2017
We explore the links between social capital and labor market networks at the neighborhood level. We harness rich data taken from multiple sources, including matched employer-employee data with which we measure the strength of labor market networks, data on behavior such as voting patterns that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453755
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Methods of Identification in Social Networks
Graham, Bryan S. - 2014
Social and economic networks are ubiquitous, serving as contexts for job search, technology diffusion, the accumulation of human capital and even the formulation of norms and values. The systematic empirical study of network formation - the process by which agents form, maintain and dissolve...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458252
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Entrepreneurship in China's Structural Transitions : Network Expansion and Overhang
Dai, Ruochen; Mookherjee, Dilip; Munshi, Kaivan; Zhang, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This research examines the determinants of entrepreneurship in the initial transition from agriculture to industrial production and the subsequent transition to higher value exporting in China. Using data covering the universe of registered firms over the 1994-2009 period, we find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014322864
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Endogenous Network Formation in Congress
Canen, Nathan - 2016
This paper presents and structurally estimates a model of endogenous network formation and legislative activity of career-motivated politicians. Employing data on socialization and legislative effort of members of the 105th-110th U.S. Congresses, our model reconciles a set of empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455924