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The novelty of our model is to combine models of collective action on networks with models of social learning. Agents are connected according to an undirected graph, the social network, and have the choice between two actions: either to adopt a new behavior or technology or stay with the default...
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This paper examines how product market competition affects firms’ timing of adopting a new technology as well as whether the market provides sufficient adoption incentives. It shows that adoption dates differ not only among symmetric firms but also among markets with Cournot and Bertrand...
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We model adoption and diffusion in a commons under uncertainty about a technology’s value. Technological resource stock …
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technology. An educational video developed by AfricaRice was used for it diffusion. Women have expressed high interest in the use … central Benin to estimate the actual and potential adoption rates of this technology and the determinants of its diffusion and … adoption. 85% of the sampled women were exposed to the technology in 2008. With this incomplete diffusion, the actual adoption …
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