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Marriage through friends
Ugo Bolletta, Luca Paolo Merlino
In this paper, we propose a model of the marriage market in which individuals meet potential partners either directly or through their friends. When socialization is exogenous, a h…
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Free Riding in Networks
Markus Kinateder, Luca Paolo Merlino
Players allocate their budget to links, a local public good and a private good. A player links to free ride on others' public good provision. We derive sufficient conditions for th…
econ.TH2021
Group Identity, Social Learning and Opinion Dynamics
Sebastiano Della Lena, Luca Paolo Merlino
In this paper, we study opinion dynamics in a balanced social structure consisting of two groups. Agents learn the true state of the world naively learning from their neighbors and…