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incentives targeted towards creation of stable networks of potential users of scientists' research. Secondly, authorities should …
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This paper analyzes the structural dimension of social capital, and its impact on the success of open source software projects. By examining ties existing between open source projects through their core members altogether with other contributors, we identify the communication paths and flows of...
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networks has developed significantly during the last decades in regards to analytic techniques, number of research projects …, and accumulated findings. While research on networks in China has always received much attention ndash; not least because … networks are (still) considered one of the major forces behind the country's socio-economic change ndash; this development has …
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, political, and family networks for 1,290 large East Asian firms. We find that professional networks buoyed performance during … the 2008 financial crisis; political and family networks did not. We provide evidence that information access is a key … mechanism underlying the effect of professional networks. A one standard deviation improvement to a firm's professional network …
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international trade between the different countries, depending on the types of networks formed. We present possible applications of …
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centrality measures that we construct from the probabilities of node-to-node information transmission in networks, for which we …
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In this paper, I assess the extent to which the gender gap in physician earnings may be driven by physicians' preference for working with specialists of the same gender. By analyzing administrative data on 100 million Medicare patient referrals, I provide robust evidence that doctors refer more...
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networks of connections, including their scale and composition. We find that all country networks are integrated having a Big …
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Among residents of an informal housing area in Cairo, we examine how dictator giving varies by the social distance between subjects - friend versus stranger - and by the anonymity of the dictator. While giving to strangers is high under anonymity, we find - consistent with Leider et al. (2009) -...
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realistic interbank networks that preserve important characteristics of the original interbank market. The method loads the most … probable links with the largest exposures consistent with the total lending and borrowing of each bank, leading to networks …
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