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Can the decoy effect increase cooperation in networks? An experiment
Claudia Cerrone, Francesco Feri, Anita Gantner +1
This paper investigates whether the decoy effect - specifically the attraction effect - can foster cooperation in social networks. In a lab experiment, we show that introducing a d…
Homophily and infections: static and dynamic effects
Matteo Bizzarri, Fabrizio Panebianco, Paolo Pin
We analyze the effect of homophily in the diffusion of a harmful state between two groups of agents that differ in immunization rates. Homophily has a very different impact on the…
Efficiency and Stability in a Process of Teams Formation
Leonardo Boncinelli, Alessio Muscillo, Paolo Pin
Motivated by data on coauthorships in scientific publications, we analyze a team formation process that generalizes matching models and network formation models, allowing for overl…
Epidemic dynamics with homophily, vaccination choices, and pseudoscience attitudes
Matteo Bizzarri, Fabrizio Panebianco, Paolo Pin
We interpret attitudes towards science and pseudosciences as cultural traits that diffuse in society through communication efforts exerted by agents. We present a tractable model t…
Covid19: unless one gets everyone to act, policies may be ineffective or even backfire
Alessio Muscillo, Paolo Pin, Tiziano Razzolini
The diffusion of COVID19 is calling governments and public health authorities to interventions that limit new infections and contain the expected number of critical cases and death…
Spreading of an infectious disease between different locations
Alessio Muscillo, Paolo Pin, Tiziano Razzolini
The endogenous adaptation of agents, that may adjust their local contact network in response to the risk of being infected, can have the perverse effect of increasing the overall s…