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This paper develops strategic foundations for an important statistical model of random networks with heterogeneous expected degrees. Based on this, we show how social networking services that subtly alter the costs and indirect benefits of relationships can cause large changes in behavior and...
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network core do exhibit cross-sectional evidence of polarization and are responsible for the majority of tweets received …
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We introduce a simple two-stage game of endogenous network formation and information sharing for reasoning about the … then we study how the network design and the utility specifications affect welfare. Surprisingly, we find that in general … "babblers" or "friends", irrespective of whether the network is unilateral or bilateral, in equilibrium, targeted information …
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individuals through job moves over their career, we establish the dynamic co-worker network across firms of the entire ICT … that have diverse connections but are central to the network as well. We find that large firms benefit more from triadic … closure in the co-worker network, stressing the role cohesive relations in sharing complex knowledge. Our results highlight …
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Social connections that reach distant places are advantageous for individuals and firms by providing access to new skills and knowledge. However, systematic evidence on how firms work up global knowledge access is still missing. In this paper, we analyse how global work connections relate to...
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) embedded in a network have to decide how much effort they exert in some activity (say education). We show that the more central … minority agents are in the social network, the more they assimilate to the majority culture. We also show that denser networks … tend to favor assimilation so that, for example, it is easier to assimilate in a complete network than in a star …
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We model the spread of news as a social learning game on a network. Agents can either endorse or oppose a claim made in … more so when the adversary has information about agents' network position or private signal. When agents are aware of the … networks. Our results also highlight that information about the users' private beliefs and their social network structure can …
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such structures. To this end, we applied the network approach to multiple theoretical constructs describing collective …
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This paper documents the effects of home-country Internet expansion on immigrants' health and subjective well-being (SWB). Combining data on SWB and health from the European Social Survey (ESS) with data on 3G and overall Internet expansion (ITU and Collins Batholomew), I find that immigrants'...
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