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In this dissertation, I investigate how government policies influence an individual's decision to search for and accept a job and/or crime opportunity.Chapter 1 looks at how long it takes for released inmates to find a job, and when they find a job, how their incarceration rate changes. The...
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in projects. The ability of an organization to develop networks in short time, to form and to manage them becomes thus an …
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We describe a class of sparse latent factor models, called graphical factor models (GFMs), and relevant sparse learning algorithms for posterior mode estimation. Linear, Gaussian GFMs have sparse, orthogonal factor loadings matrices, that, in addition to sparsity of the implied covariance...
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In this paper we explore the ways in which institutions and networks influence entrepreneurial development in Russia … addition, the analysis explores the effectiveness of Russia’s informal networks for circumventing the weak institutional … entrepreneurial activity. Our results support the notion of the limited effectiveness of Russia’s networks for supporting …
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In this paper we use a comparative perspective to explore the ways in which institutions and networks have influenced …
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to capital, information, and other resources. Such interactions among firms tend to develop into stable networks of … industry structures by explaining how firms build their networks during the early history of a new sector. First, I propose …
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Business relations and networks play a central role in the way business and economic systems are organised and function … better understanding of how business relations and networks form and evolve. One way to do this is through the development of … of agent-based simulation models of business relations and networks that allow researchers to systematically explore the …
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boundaries of stable networks for increasing and decreasing marginal returns.The formulated model stands in strong relation to …
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Since the seminal contribution of Jackson & Wolinsky 1996 [A Strategic Model of Social and Economic Networks, JET 71 …, 44-74] it has been widely acknowledged that the formation of social networks exhibits a general conflict between … results that relate situations of positive externalities with stable networks that cannot be "too dense" in a well …
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and the implications for the structure of pairwise stable networks. First, different definitions of convexity (concavity … own links and strategic complements, a local uniqueness property of pairwise stable networks is derived. The results do …
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