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Consequences of Connection Failure - Centrality and the Importance for Cohesion

Belau, Julia - 2014

This paper suggests a new approach for centrality measures for general (weighted) networks taking into account the … provide axiomatic characterizations for the degreebased measures in the case of binary networks and discuss computational …

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Social Networks, Promotions, and the Glass-Ceiling Effect

Zaharieva, Anna; Neugart, Michael - 2020

internal promotions and job-to-job mobility. Both, formal applications and referral hiring via endogenous social networks, can … link formation is gender-biased (homophily) there are too few female contacts in the social networks of their male … level management positions of firms. Our results suggest that endogenously forming homophilous social networks when female …

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Network Neutrality and the Evolution of the Internet

Knieps, Günter - 2010

In order to create incentives for Internet traffic providers not to discriminate with respect to certain applications on the basis of network capacity requirements, the concept of market driven network neutrality is introduced. Its basic characteristics are that all applications are bearing the...

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Accounting for social spending escalation in rural China

Chen, Xi - 2011

It has been widely recognized that the poor spends a significant proportion of their income on social spending even at the expense of basic consumption. What are the motives behind the observed lavish social spending among the poor? We attempt to test three competing explanations at the social...

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Strategic Formation of Homogeneous Bargaining Networks

Gauer, Florian - 2015

sequential network bargaining. Assuming patient players, we provide a complete characterization of networks being pairwise (Nash … stable, including all other equitable networks. As an important implication, this reveals the diversity of possible … costs the pairwise stable and efficient networks coincide whereas this does not hold if costs are low or at an intermediate …

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Local and Global Pollution and International Environmental Agreements in a Network Approach

Günther, Michael; Hellmann, Tim - 2015

Increasing concerns about climate change have given rise to the formation of International Environmental Agreements (IEAs) as a possible solution to limit global pollution eff ects. In this paper, we study the stability of IEAs in a repeated game framework where we restrict to strategies which...

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The Effect of Peer Observation on the Consumption of Temptation Goods: Experimental Evidence

Grohmann, Antonia Charlotte; Sakha, Sahra - 2015

This paper uses a clean experiment to investigate the impact of peer observation on the consumption decisions of rural households in Thailand. We find that those groups that observe each other show lower within group standard deviation in their decisions. At the same time, we also find that...

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Learning faster or more precisely? Strategic experimentation in networks

Wuggenig, Mirjam - 2015

links. This means that in the design of networks there exists a trade-off between the speed of learning and accuracy. …

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Clusters for life or life cycles of clusters: Critical factors for resilience

Suire, Raphael; Vicente, Jerome - 2010

This paper aims to contribute to the identification of the key parameters of cluster life cycles. We assume that clusters are embedded in larger technological fields, so that the search for these parameters focuses on the way by which clusters could disconnect their cycle from the cycle of...

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Job switching: What's in it for me?

Backman, Mikaela; Kilkenny, Maureen - 2014

This paper analyse how previous experience and affiliation influence individual employees but also the current employers. Knowledge can be embodied in several different forms, in individuals, in books, in machines, or in processes. Human capital refers to embodied knowledge in individuals,...

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