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Wie weit geht Crowdsourcing? : transnationale Open-Innovation-Strategien gegen den Braindrain der GUS-Staaten

Roth, Steffen; Ströhle, Lorenza - 2016

Vor dem Hintergrund der Abwanderung hochqualifizierter Arbeitskräfte aus den GUS-Staaten zeigt die vorliegende Arbeit … anhand der Arbeitsweise zweier Schweizer Open- Innovation-Dienstleister, wie Open-Innovation- und Crowdsourcing …-Strategien nachhaltige Vorteile aus der exzellenten Bildungsinfrastruktur der GUS-Staaten schöpfen können. …

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Social networks

Martí, Joan de; Zenou, Yves - 2009

We survey the literature on social networks by putting together the economics, sociological and physics/applied mathematics approaches, showing their similarities and differences. We expose, in particular, the two main ways of modeling network formation. While the physics/applied mathematics...

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Key players in co-offending networks

Lindquist, Matthew J.; Zenou, Yves - 2014

We study peer effects in crime by analyzing co-offending networks. We first provide a credible estimate of peer effects in these networks equal to 0.17. This estimate implies a social multiplier of 1.2 for those individuals linked to only one co-offender and a social multiplier of 2 for those...

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The value of connections : evidence from the Italian-American Mafia

Mastrobuoni, Giovanni - 2014

Using declassified Federal Bureau of Narcotics records on 800 US Mafia members active in the 1950s and 1960s, and on their connections within the organized crime network, I estimate network effects on gangsters' economic status. Lacking information on criminal proceeds, I measure economic status...

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Kapitał społeczny ludzi starych na przykładzie mieszkańców miasta Białystok

Klimczuk, Andrzej - 2012

"Social Capital of Old People on the Example of Bialystok Residents" is a book based on theoretical and empirical study, which presents an issue of diagnosing and using of old people social capital in the local and regional development processes. This issue is significant because of the threats...

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Urban spatial structure, employment and social ties

Picard, Pierre M.; Zenou, Yves - 2014

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Organizational and epistemic change : the growth of the art investment field

Coslor, Erica; Spaenjers, Christophe - 2013

What can studying the creation of knowledge tell us about how new technical fields emerge and develop? This paper shows how a knowledge community may be necessary to support the legitimacy of new products that undergo performance evaluation before purchase. Using historical and ethnographic data...

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Juvenile delinquency and conformism

Patacchini, Eleonora; Zenou, Yves - 2010 - Revised: July 2, 2009

This paper studies whether conformism behavior affects individual outcomes in crime. We present a social network model of peer effects with ex-ante heterogeneous agents and show how conformism and deterrence affect criminal activities. We then bring the model to the data by using a very detailed...

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Social networks

Martí, Joan de; Zenou, Yves - 2009

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Criminal networks : who is the key player?

Liu, Xiaodong; Patacchini, Eleonora; Zenou, Yves; Lee, … - 2012

We analyze delinquent networks of adolescents in the United States. We develop a dynamic network formation model showing who the key player is, i.e. the criminal who once removed generates the highest possible reduction in aggregate crime level. We then structurally estimate our model using data...

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