Empirical evidence shows that research is being carried out more in cooperation or in collaboration with others, and the networks described by these collaborative research activities are becoming more and more complex. This phenomenon brings about new strands of research questions and opens up a...

The role of geographical proximity in fostering connections and knowledge flows between innovative actors ranks among the most controversial themes in the research of innovation systems, regional networks and new economic geography. While there is ample empirical evidence on the constituent...

In this paper, we study the organizational form of loan syndicates, how banks choose their syndicate partners and how this affects syndicate structure, loan pricing, and borrower performance. We develop a set of novel measures in terms of the distance in lending expertise with respect to both...