This paper offers an empirical analysis of the Network in EC rural development policies. Taking into account some of … the elements of a network system, like accreditation of the framework, the competences involved and management flexibility …, we focus on the experience of the Italian Rural Network, established in 2008 by the Italian Ministero delle politiche …

Index proposed by Echenique and Fryer (2007) is not continuous with respect to the network structure. Finally, we apply the …

This paper examines the celebrated "Strength of weak ties" theory of Granovetter(1973). We formalize the theory in … isincreasing in the strength of the two ties, and two, the removal of a weak tieincreases average distance in the network more than … the removal of a strong tie. We test these hypotheses using data on the network of coauthorship amongeconomists. We find …

advantages of the farms, have become more dependent on network organisations in the supply chains. This evolution requires … markets, and benefit from them” (D.Parthasarathy and V.K.Chopde, 2000). So the network dimension of the supply-chain becomes a … value of the firm and it is advantages on the whole coming out by occupying a specific position (role) in the network of …

social network similarly to the DeGroot model. Abstracting from the standard assumption that individuals always report their … increasing in network centrality and decreasing in the level of conformity. Thus, lower conformity fosters opinion leadership … the sense of a smaller mean squared error of their estimate, if players who are well informed (relative to their network …

network analysis of the Saliyars community cluster — in comparison with the networks of the communities in a cluster of a …

network of relationships- how dense it is, whether some groups are segregated, who sits in central positions- affects how … that researchers can miss if they do not account for network patterns of interaction. Next I discuss a taxonomy of network … properties and how they impact behaviors. Finally, I discuss the problem of developing tractable models of network formation. …

question of interest. Agents repeatedly communicate with their neighbors in the social network, can exert some effort to …

-conforming with their neighbors. We show that an agent׳s social influence on the long-run group opinion is increasing in network … out that misrepresentation of opinions need not undermine wisdom, but may even enhance it. Given the network, we provide …

change. We employ an agent-based model to test the impact of authority centralization and social network technology on … institutional change is decreasing with authority centralization in simulations with low network range but is increasing with … authority centralization in simulations with greater network range. The relationship between institutional change and social …