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Peer effects in central banking
Horváth, Roman - 2020
respect to transparency. Previous literature has argued that domestic factors such as macroeconomic stability were behind the … trend toward greater transparency. In contrast, our results indicate that transparency primarily increased because of a … from each other's experiences regarding transparency. To our knowledge, our paper is the first econometric analysis of peer …
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Increased transparency in procurement : the role of peer effects
Beer, Ruth; Rios, Ignacio; Saban, Daniela - In: Management science : journal of the Institute for … 67 (2021) 12, pp. 7511-7534
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Playing the Fertility Game at Work: An Equilibrium Model of Peer Effects
Ciliberto, Federico; Miller, Amalia R; Nielsen, Helena S; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
We study workplace peer effects in fertility decisions using a game theory model of strategic interactions among coworkers that allows for multiple equilibria. Using register-based data on fertile-aged women working in medium sized establishments in Denmark, we uncover negative average peer...
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Social interactions in inappropriate behavior for childbirth services: Theory and evidence from the Italian hospital sector
Guccio, C.; Lisi, D. - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2014
Over the last decades the role of social interactions has become increasingly important in the economic discussion and, by now, it is acknowledged that the interaction across agents can produce both positive and negative effects. In this paper we evaluate the role of social interactions in the...
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SOCIAL INTERACTIONS AT THE WORKPLACE: EXPLORING SICKNESS ABSENCE BEHAVIOR.
Rieck, Karsten Marshall Elseth; Vaage, Kjell - Institutt for Økonomi, Universitetet i Bergen - 2012
We investigate whether a worker’s sickness absence is affected by her colleagues’ absences from the workplace. The analysis is based on unique matched employer-employee data for Norwegian schoolteachers for the period 2001 to 2006 with information on different types of absences and multiple...
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Peer Effects, Fast Food Consumption and Adolescent Weight Gain
Fortin, Bernard; Yazbeck, Myra - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2011
This paper aims at opening the black box of peer effects in adolescent weight gain. Using Add Health data on secondary schools in the U.S., we investigate whether these effects partly flow through the eating habits channel. Adolescents are assumed to interact through a friendship social network....
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Conformism and Self-Selection in Social Networks
Boucher, Vincent - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2014
I present a model of conformism in social networks that incorporates both peer effects and self-selection. I find that equilibrium behaviors are linked through the Laplacian matrix of the equilibrium network. I show that conformism has positive social value and that social welfare can be bounded...
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Peer Effects in Parental Leave Decisions
Welteke, Clara; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2016
This paper analyzes to what extent parental leave decisions of mothers with young children depend on the decisions made by their coworkers. The identification of peer effects, which are defined as indirect effects of the behavior of a social reference group on individual outcomes, bears various...
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Peer Effects, Fast Food Consumption and Adolescent Weight Gain
Fortin, Bernard; Yazbeck, Myra - 2015
This paper aims at opening the black box of peer effects in adolescent weight gain. Using Add Health data on secondary schools in the U.S., we investigate whether these partly flow through the eating habits channel. Adolescents are assumed to interact through a friendship social network. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011288211
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Do Interventions Change the Network? A Panel Peer-Effect Model Accounting for Endogenous Network Changes
Comola, Margherita; Prina, Silvia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
A large literature has studied how peers affect behavior by exploiting the preexisting social network structure only. What if networks rewire in response to changes in the economic environment, such as a randomized intervention? We exploit a unique panel dataset that contains detailed...
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