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governance in designing processes, creating, supporting and managing networks, creating arenas for strategy formation, nourishing … interdependencies in their economies, infrastructure, and natural resources, but they are not linked well in terms of governance … governance strategies for such megaregions. As we have noted elsewhere, collaborative and networked processes can do many of the …
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We explain persistent differences in cultural traits of immigrant groups with the presence of community leaders. Leaders influence the cultural traits of their community, which have an impact on the group's earnings. They determine whether a community will be more assimilated and wealthier or...
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This paper examines the determination of the rate of growth in an economy in which two political parties, each representing a different social class, negotiate the magnitude and allocation of taxes. Taxes may increase growth if they finance public services but reduce growth when used to...
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Nazi Party entry in a cross-section of cities, and show that dense networks of civic associations such as bowling clubs …
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optimal design of social networks like Facebook or Google+. We distinguish between unilateral and bilateral connections and …
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This paper studies an analytically tractable model of the formation and evolution of chains of production. Over time, entrepreneurs accumulate techniques to produce their good using goods produced by other entrepreneurs and labor as inputs. The value of a technique depends on both the...
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The resource-constrained project scheduling problem (RCPSP) consists of activities that must be scheduled subject to precedence and resource constraints such that the makespan is minimized. It has become a well-known standard problem in the context of project scheduling which has attracted...
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fellowships and the market for judicial clerks) in the presence of social networks. We offer a two-stage model in which workers in …
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We present a model of repeated games in large buyer-seller networks in the presence of reputation networks via which … buyers share information about past transactions. The model allows us to characterize cooperation networks - networks in …
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We explore the dynamics of group inequality when segregation of social networks places the initially less affluent …
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