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Bottleneck links, essential intermediaries, and competing paths of diffusion in networks
Manea, Mihai - In: Theoretical economics : TE ; an open access journal in … 16 (2021) 3, pp. 1017-1053
among sellers. In dense networks, competition limits the scope of indirect appropriability and intellectual property rights …
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Social networks and unraveling in labor markets
Fainmesser, Itay - 2010
design of the matching procedure can prevent unraveling. -- Networks ; market design ; unraveling ; entry-level labor markets … fellowships and the market for judicial clerks) in the presence of social networks. We offer a two-stage model in which workers in … changes to the network structure on the unraveling of the market towards early hiring. Moreover, we show that an efficient …
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Social Networks and Unraveling in Labor Markets
Fainmesser, Itay P - 2010
fellowships and the market for judicial clerks) in the presence of social networks. We offer a two-stage model in which workers in … changes to the network structure on the unraveling of the market towards early hiring. Moreover, we show that an efficient … design of the matching procedure can prevent unraveling …
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The value of connections : evidence from the Italian-American Mafia
Mastrobuoni, Giovanni - 2014
Using declassified Federal Bureau of Narcotics records on 800 US Mafia members active in the 1950s and 1960s, and on their connections within the organized crime network, I estimate network effects on gangsters' economic status. Lacking information on criminal proceeds, I measure economic status...
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A connections model with decreasing returns link-formation technology
Olaizola, Norma; Valenciano, Federico - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 14 (2023) 1, pp. 31-61
about node-players' information and is necessary for Nash equilibrium and for pairwise stability. Second, efficient networks …
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Spillovers in criminal networks : evidence from co-offender deaths
Lindquist, Matthew J.; Patacchini, Eleonora; … - 2024
We study spillover effects within co-offending networks by leveraging deaths of co-offenders for causal identification …
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Matching on bipartite graphs
Gersbach, Hans; Haller, Hans - 2015 - This Version: September 2015
We study stable matchings on exogenously given or endogenously formed bipartite graphs that reflect constraints on matching. The effects of a change of the exogenously given graph (constraints) are investigated. Specifically, we examine to what extent individuals gain or lose from relaxing...
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Gainers and losers from market integration
Gersbach, Hans; Haller, Hans - 2019 - This Version: November 2019
We compare integration of economic, matching and networking markets. There can be losers from integration in all three cases, but their relative numbers depend on the type of market. There can be many losers from integration of pure exchange economies. There are relatively few losers from...
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Efficient partnership formation in networks
Bloch, Francis; Dutta, Bhaskar; Manea, Mihai - In: Theoretical economics : TE ; an open access journal in … 14 (2019) 3, pp. 779-811
We analyze the formation of partnerships in social networks. Players need favors at random times and ask their …
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Chapter 16. Formation of Networks and Coalitions
Bloch, Francis; Dutta, Bhaskar - In: Handbook of social economics : volume 1, (pp. 729-779). 2011
This chapter surveys recent models of coalition and network formation in a unified framework. Comparisons are drawn among various procedures of network and coalition formation, involving simultaneous and sequential moves. The survey also covers models of group and network formation by farsighted...
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