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An attempt to disperse the Italian interlocking directorship network : analyzing the effects of the 2011 reform
Drago, Carlo; Ricciuti, Roberto; Santella, Paolo - 2015
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the effects on the Italian directorship network of the corporate governance reform that was introduced in Italy in 2011 to prevent interlocking directorships in the financial sector. Interlocking directorships are important communication channels among...
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The government as a large shareholder : impact on firm value and corporate governance
Fernandes, Marcelo; Novaes, Walter - 2015
in Europe and Latin America, where several governments are large shareholders in a variety of public firms. In a sense …, the subprime crisis induced these governments to behave as active large shareholders. This paper uses a sample of public … firms in Brazil to show that government activism lowers the value of minority shareholders' voting rights. While the …
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Voting in shareholders meetings
Bouton, Laurent; Llorente-Saguer, Aniol; Macé, Antonin; … - 2022
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Social interactions and stigmatized behavior : "donating" blood plasma in rural China
Chen, Xi; Sahn, David E.; Zhang, Xiaobo - 2018
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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 played...
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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 individuals meet and forgotten at an exogenous rate. At most one meme can be transmitted at a meeting, which introduces opportunity costs in the process. Individuals differ...
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Constitutions and social networks
Mauleon, Ana; Roehl, Nils; Vannetelbosch, Vincent J. - 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 have specific rules or constitutions governing which...
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Confirmation bias in social networks
Fernandes, Marcos - 2019
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Convergence of cultural traits with time-varying self-confidence in the Panebianco (2014) model : a corrigendum
Panebianco, Fabrizio; Prummer, Anja; Siedlarek, Jan-Peter - 2017
We highlight that convergence in repeated averaging models commonly used to study cultural traits or opinion dynamics is not equivalent to convergence in Markov chain settings if transition matrices are time-varying. We then establish a new proof for the convergence of cultural traits in the...
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The strength of weak leaders : an experiment on social influence and social learning in teams
Buechel, Berno; Klößner, Stefan; Lochmüller, Martin; … - 2018
We investigate how the selection process of a leader affects team performance with respect to social learning. We use a lab experiment in which an incentivized guessing task is repeated in a star network with the leader at the center. Leader selection is either based on competence, on...
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