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The Trade-Off between Directness and Coverage in Transport Network Growth
Clément Sebastiao, Anastassia Vybornova, Ane Rahbek Vierø +2
Designing spatial networks, such as transport networks, commonly deals with the problem of how to best connect a set of locations through a set of links. In practice, it can be cru…
Modeling the Impact of Group Interactions on Climate-related Opinion Change in Reddit
Alessia Antelmi, Carmine Spagnuolo, Luca Maria Aiello
Opinion dynamics models describe the evolution of behavioral changes within social networks and are essential for informing strategies aimed at fostering positive collective change…
Urban highways are barriers to social ties
Luca Maria Aiello, Anastassia Vybornova, Sándor Juhász +2
Urban highways are common, especially in the US, making cities more car-centric. They promise the annihilation of distance but obstruct pedestrian mobility, thus playing a key role…
The dynamics of the Reddit collective action leading to the GameStop short squeeze
Antonio Desiderio, Luca Maria Aiello, Giulio Cimini +1
In early 2021, the stock prices of GameStop, AMC, Nokia and BlackBerry experienced dramatic increases, triggered by short-squeeze operations that have been largely attributed to Re…
From Reddit to Wall Street: The role of committed minorities in financial collective action
Lorenzo Lucchini, Luca Maria Aiello, Laura Alessandretti +3
In January 2021, retail investors coordinated on Reddit to target short selling activity by hedge funds on GameStop shares, causing a surge in the share price and triggering signif…
Predicting Urban Innovation from the Workforce Mobility Network in US
Moreno Bonaventura, Luca Maria Aiello, Daniele Quercia +1
While great emphasis has been placed on the role of social interactions as driver of innovation growth, very few empirical studies have explicitly investigated the impact of social…