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Whom to lobby? : targeting in political networks
Groll, Thomas; Prummer, Anja - 2016
' efforts do not neutralize each other and their payoffs and competitive advantages depend on the networks they face. Our …
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Coordination in Evolving Networks with Endogenous Decay
Feri, Francesco; Meléndez-Jiménez, Miguel A. - 2009
This paper studies an evolutionary model of network formation with endogenous decay, in which agents benefit both from direct and indirect connections. In addition to forming (costly) links, agents choose actions for a coordination game that determines the level of decay of each link. We address...
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Emergence of innovation networks from R&D cooperation with endogenous absorptive capacity
Egbetokun, Abiodun Adeyemi; Savin, Ivan - 2013
This paper extends the existing literature on strategic R&D alliances by presenting a model of innovation networks with … endogenous absorptive capacity. The networks emerge as a result of bilateral cooperation over time between firms occupying … intensity of cooperation and innovation. Within different knowledge regimes, we examine the structure of networks that emerge …
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Conformism, social norms and the dynamics of assimilation
Olcina Vauteren, Gonzalo; Panebianco, Fabrizio; Zenou, Yves - 2018
We consider a model where each individual (or ethnic minority) is embedded in a network of relation-ships and decides whether or not she wants to be assimilated to the majority norm. Each individual wants her behavior to agree with her personal ideal action or norm but also wants her behavior to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011821187
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Micro-targeting and polarization
Prummer, Anja - In: Journal of public economics 188 (2020), pp. 1-21
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Special interest groups versus voters and the political economics of attention
Balles, Patrick; Matter, Ulrich; Stutzer, Alois - 2018
constituents during times of low media attention to politics. Combining data on campaign finance donations made by individuals and …
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Social Networks and Voting
Hoffman, Mitchell - 2011
This paper uses a randomized experiment to study whether social networks affect vote choice. In a fiercely contested …
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Non-Bayesian Social Learning and the Spread of Misinformation in Networks
Della Lena, Sebastiano - 2019
People are exposed to a constant flow of information about economic, social and political phenomena; nevertheless, misinformation is ubiquitous in the society. This paper studies the spread of misinformation in a social environment where agents receive new information each period and update their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012890347
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Populism and polarization in social media without fake news : the vicious circle of biases, beliefs and network homophily?
Hakobyan, Zaruhi; Koulovatianos, Christos - 2020
matching less costly and more intensive. According to our simulations, just combining the internet's ease of forming networks … weight on expert opinion. Networks make fundamental biases be enhanced by peer-induced amplification factors, a finding …
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Why echo chambers are useful
Jann, Ole; Schottmuller, Christoph - 2019
Why do people appear to forgo information by sorting into “echo chambers”? We construct a highly tractable multi-sender, multi-receiver cheap talk game in which players choose with whom to communicate. We show that segregation into small, homogeneous groups can improve everybody’s...
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