Peer effects have figured prominently in debates on school vouchers, desegregation, ability tracking and anti-poverty programs. Compelling evidence of their existence remains scarce for plaguing endogeneity issues such as selection bias and the reflection problem. This paper is among the first...

We model a simple dynamic process in which boundedly rational agents learn through their interactions with others. Of interest is to study the process of contagion where by one action 'spreads throughout the population' and becomes conventional. We vary the network of player interaction between...

This paper empirically investigates the relevance of social interaction and caste affiliation for individual awareness of financial instruments and investment behavior in India. The results of our empirical analysis, which is based on a large scale survey on saving patterns of Indians, suggest a...

The scale of international migration flows depends on moving costs that are, in turn, influenced by host-country policies and by the size of migrant networks at destination. This paper estimates the influence of visa policies and networks upon bilateral migration flows to multiple destinations....

Online social networks evolved into a global mainstream medium that generates an increasingsocial and economic impact. However, many online social networks face the question how toleverage on their fast growing popularity to achieve sustainable revenues. In that context,particularly more...

Using data on team assignment and weekly output for all weavers in an urban Chinese textilefirm between April 2003 and March 2004, this paper studies a) how randomly assignedteammates affect an individual worker’s behavior under a tournament-style incentive scheme,and b) how such effects...

This chapter try to highlight some key elements of Chinese thinking described from a cultural and philosophical perspective starting with explaining the background for Chinese philosophy, mainly Confucianism followed by central concepts such as holism (ying/yang) and a discussion of the concept...

Die Hierarchie innerhalb einer Organisation bleibt wichtig, sie wird jedoch immer öfter durch informelle Netzwerke aufgeweicht. Das ist eines der Hauptergebnisse der diesjährigen Studie "Führung im Umbruch". Für die Studie wurden 466 Fach- und Führungskräfte verschiedener Branchen und...

Die ursprünglichen Ziele der regionalen Produktions- und Vermarktungsinitiative "Altreier Kaffee" in Südtirol waren die Wiederbelebung des Anbaus der Altreier Lupine sowie der alten kulturellen Tradition aus den gerösteten Samen der Pflanze ein traditionelles Kaffeesurrogat zuzubereiten....