explanation for many core-periphery structures observed in real life social networks. -- Network Formation ; Heterogeneity … solely on the types of the two end agents. Core periphery networks are defined as networks in which the agents' set can be … over the other, controlling for path length. An exhaustive analysis shows that core periphery networks, in which the …

linked fields. Our analysis uses 1.8 million U.S. patents and their citation properties to map the innovation network and its … strength. Past innovation network structures are calculated using citation patterns across technology classes during 1975 …-1994. The interaction of this pre-existing network structure with patent growth in upstream technology fields has strong …

We construct an empirical measure of expected network spillovers that arise through default cascades for the U …

among team members. I investigate how the division of staff into teams should account for the agents' social network of …

friendship networks in the United States. We find that, for religious parents, the higher is the fraction of religious peers, the … effect of peers on the transmission of the non-religious trait. -- religion ; cultural transmission ; peer effects ; network …

This paper examines how networks of professional contacts contribute to the development of the careers of executives of … networks and contribute to the development of future networks. We test the theory on an original dataset of nearly 6000 … executives in over 3000 firms. We find evidence that professional networks are relevant both because valuable for the employer …

during a pandemic. Agents are connected through a weighted undirected network of contacts, and the planner's objective is to … contact network and the tolerable infection incidence. Comparative statics analyses are conducted: (i) they reveal the … between different measures of network centrality and individual lockdown probability with the correlation increasing with the …

, we find no evidence that urban residents benefit from larger networks when spatial sorting is accounted for. Higher … density rather generates a more efficient network in terms of matching and clustering. These differences in network structure … capitalize into land prices, corroborating the hypothesis that agglomeration economies operate via network efficiency. …

We present results on the identification of social networks from observational panel data that contains no information … extended to economic realms where no network data exists. …