Online commercial interactions have increased dramatically over the last decade, leading to the emergence of networks … visibility of such "product networks"can alter demand spillovers across their constituent items. We test this conjecture … empirically using data about the copurchase networks and demand levels associated with more than 250,000 interconnected books …

properties of their social relations and may exhibit homophily. The Saliyar community cluster in India is an archetype of this …. This cluster’s experience is investigated on how its thickly homophilous networks have steered it from dominance to decline … network analysis of the Saliyars community cluster — in comparison with the networks of the communities in a cluster of a …

Homophily is the tendency to establish relationships among people who share similar characteristics or attributes. This … role of length and closeness of friendships on the degree of homophily. We also exploit the dynamics of the friendship by …’ occupational class proved to be insignificant. We also show that the degree of homophily among friends selected from a random …

We examine how three different communication processes operating through social networks are affected by homophily … - the tendency of individuals to associate with others similar to themselves. Homophily has no effect if messages are … broadcast or sent via shortest paths; only connection density matters. In contrast, homophily substantially slows learning based …

networks. Individuals come in different types and have type-dependent benefits from friendships; we examine the properties of a …

exposure of each of them to the other community. We derive a number of results with regard to equilibrium networks. In …

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 … a number of results: (i) for low levels of homophily the product attractive to both types of consumers is preferred to …

The Internet is now being used as a mechanism for the delivery of social support on a global scale, chiefly through the … of newsgroups for social support. This paper examines the use of an Internet Relay Chat (IRC) 'room', by a self … roles that these new forms of Internet mediated self-help and social support might play in changing the relationships of …