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Comment on "Why and When 'Flawed' Social Network Analyses Still Yield Valid Tests of no Contagion"

Shalizi, Cosma Rohilla - In: Statistics, Politics, and Policy 3 (2012) 1

contagion from purely observational data. It is especially helpful as a corrective to some of the more extreme statements of …

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The Role of Copulas in the Housing Crisis

Zimmer, David M. - In: The Review of Economics and Statistics 94 (2012) 2, pp. 607-620

Due to its simplicity and familiarity, the Gaussian copula is popular in calculating risk in collaterized debt obligations, but it imposes asymptotic independence such that extreme events appear to be unrelated. This restriction might be innocuous in normal times, but during extreme events, such...

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International dependence and contagion across asset classes : the case of Poland

Adam, Michał; Bańbuła, Piotr; Markun, Michał - In: Finance a úvěr 65 (2015) 3, pp. 254-270

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Homophily and Contagion are Generically Confounded in Observational Social Network Studies

Shalizi, Cosma Rohilla; Thomas, Andrew C. - In: Sociological Methods & Research 40 (2011) 2, pp. 211-239

formation of social ties due to matching individual traits; social contagion, also known as social influence; and the causal … imitation (a form of social contagion) can produce substantial correlations between an individual's enduring traits and his or …

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The economic consequences of social network structure

Jackson, Matthew O.; Rogers, Brian; Zenou, Yves - 2016

We survey the literature on the economic consequences of the structure of social networks. We develop a taxonomy of "macro" and "micro" characteristics of social interaction networks and discuss both the theoretical and empirical findings concerning the role of those characteristics in...

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The Economic Consequences of Social Network Structure

Jackson, Matthew O.; Rogers, Brian; Zenou, Yves - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

We survey the literatures on the economic consequences of the structure of social networks. We develop a taxonomy of 'macro' and 'micro' characteristics of social inter-action networks and discuss both the theoretical and empirical findings concerning the role of those characteristics in...

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DIFFUSION IN COMPLEX SOCIAL NETWORKS

López-Pintado, Dunia - Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas (IVIE) - 2004

agent obtains the product with a probability that depends on the spreading rate (or degree of contagion) of the product as … structure and the mechanism of contagion, determines whether the product spreads and becomes persistent or it does not spread …

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Network security

Larson, Nathan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

, financial contagion, and so on). Often, good and bad items may propagate along the same networks, so individuals must weigh the …

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Community-based protest against construction projects: a case study of movement continuity

Teo, Melissa; Loosemore, Martin - In: Construction Management and Economics 29 (2011) 2, pp. 131-144

time. The model illustrates how social contagion leads to common community perceptions of development risk and opportunity …

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The Role of Targeted Communication and Contagion in Product Adoption

Manchanda, Puneet; Xie, Ying; Youn, Nara - In: Marketing Science 27 (2008) 6, pp. 961-976

context to study this problem. It has been conjectured that adoption and usage patterns of a new drug by physicians—“contagion … (linear and quadratic) and individual physician-level contagion and marketing activity (both individual level and market level …). Our contagion measure aggregates the adoption behavior of geographically near physicians for each physician in our sample …

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