Embeddedness in social networks is increasingly seen as a root cause of human
achievement, social stratification, and actor behavior. In this article, we review sociological …

Biological entities are involved in intricate and complex interactions, in which uncovering the
biological information from the network concepts are of great significance. Benefiting from …

Over the past decade social capital has matured from a concept into a field of research. We
identify some of the main theoretical developments over this period and point to some areas …

Using the value that a mutual fund extracts from capital markets as the measure of skill, we
find that the average mutual fund has used this skill to generate about $3.2 million per year …

I present closed-form solutions for prices, portfolios, and beliefs in a model where four types
of investors trade assets over time: naive investors who learn via a social network,“fanatics” …

We use panel data on S&P 1500 companies to identify external network connections
between directors and CEOs. We find that firms with more powerful CEOs are more likely to …

Currently, a director is classified as independent if he or she has neither financial nor familial
ties to the CEO or to the firm. We add another dimension: social ties. Using a unique data …

Many argue that home bias arises because home investors can predict home asset payoffs
more accurately than foreigners can. But why does global information access not eliminate …

This article analyzes whether political connections of the board of directors of publicly traded
companies in the USA affect the allocation of government procurement contracts. It focuses …

Firms with central boards of directors earn superior risk-adjusted stock returns. A long (short)
position in the most (least) central firms earns average annual returns of 4.68%. Firms with …