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Opportunity and choice in social networks

Pin, Paolo (contributor); Franz, Silvio (contributor); … - 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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Strategic basins of attraction, the farsighted core, and network formation games

Page, Frank H. (contributor); … - 2005

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The paradoxes of the liberal ethics of non-interference

Mariotti, Marco; Veneziani, Roberto - 2009

We analyse the liberal ethics of non-interference applied to social choice. Two liberal principles capturing non-interfering views of society, inspired by J.S. Mill's conception of liberty are examined, which capture the idea that society should not penalise agents after changes in their...

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Juvenile delinquency and conformism

Patacchini, Eleonora; Zenou, Yves - 2010 - Revised: July 2, 2009

This paper studies whether conformism behavior affects individual outcomes in crime. We present a social network model of peer effects with ex-ante heterogeneous agents and show how conformism and deterrence affect criminal activities. We then bring the model to the data by using a very detailed...

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

Čugaj, Roman N. - 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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Corruption and social interaction : evidence from China

Bin Dong; Torgler, Benno - 2011

We explore theoretically and empirically whether social interaction, including local and global interaction, influences … the incidence of corruption. We first present an interaction-based model on corruption that predicts that the level of … corruption is positively associated with social interaction. Then we empirically verify the theoretical prediction using within …