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Marketing via friends: strategic diffusion of information in social networks with homophily

Chuhay, Roman - 2010

The paper studies the impact of homophily on the optimal strategies of a monopolist, whose marketing campaign of new product relies on a word of mouth communication. Homophily is a tendency of people to interact more with those who are similar to them. In the model there are two types of...

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How homophily affects learning and diffusion in networks

Golub, Benjamin; Jackson, Matthew O. - 2009

We examine how three different communication processes operating through social networks are affected by homophily … on repeated averaging of neighbors' information and Markovian diffusion processes such as the Google random surfer model … friendship networks from the Adolescent Health dataset. …

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Naïve Learning in Social Networks: Convergence, Influence and Wisdom of Crowds

Jackson, Matthew O.; Golub, Benjamin - 2007

networks for which there is a convergence of beliefs. Finally, we survey some recent structural results on the speed of …

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Transboundary capital and pollution flows and the emergence of regional inequalities

Levin, Simon; Xepapadeas, Anastasios - 2015

endogenous growth and convergence behavior, and pollution accumulation in each country with pollution diffusion between countries …

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Diffusion of multiple information: On information resilience and the power of segregation

Tabasso, Nicole - 2015

We introduce two pieces of information, denoted memes, into a diffusion process in which memes are transmitted when …

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Constitutions and social networks

Mauleon, Ana; Roehl, Nils; Vannetelbosch, Vincent - 2015

The objective of the paper is to analyze the formation of social networks where individuals are allowed to engage in … several groups at the same time. These group structures are interpreted here as social networks. Each group is supposed to …' preferences under which stable social networks are induced for sure. Furthermore, by embedding many-to-many matchings into our …

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Building Up Social Capital in a Changing World: A Network Approach

Vega-Redondo, Fernando - 2003

This paper models the dynamic process through which a large society may succeed in building up its "social capital" by establishing a stable and dense pattern of interaction among its members. In the model, agents interact according to a collection of infinitely repeated Prisoner's Dilemmas...

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The Swing Voter's Curse in Social Networks

Buechel, Berno; Mechtenberg, Lydia - 2017

We study private communication in social networks prior to a majority vote on two alternative policies. Some (or all …

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Opportunity and choice in social networks

Pin, Paolo; Franz, Silvio; Marsili, Matteo - 2008

Our societies are heterogeneous in many dimensions such as census, education, religion, ethnic and cultural composition. The links between individuals - e.g. by friendship, marriage or collaboration - are not evenly distributed, but rather tend to be concentrated within the same group. This...

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A social network analysis of occupational segregation

van der Leij, Marco J.; Buhai, I. Sebastian - 2008

We develop a social network model of occupational segregation between different social groups, generated by the existence of positive inbreeding bias among individuals from the same group. If network referrals are important for job search, then expected homophily in the contact network structure...

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