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A mixed-game agent-based model of financial contagion
, 2008 Over the past two decades, financial market crises with similar features have occurred in different regions of the world. Unstable cross-market linkages during financial crises are referred to as financial contagion.
Serguieva, A, Wu, H, Caporale, GM
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Explaining Changes in Physical Activity Through a Computational Model of Social Contagion [PDF]
, 2017 Social processes play a key role in health behaviour. Understanding the underlying mechanisms of such processes is important when designing health interventions with a social component.
van Halteren, A.T. +7 more
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Creativity and its link to epilepsy
Epilepsia Open, EarlyView.Abstract Creative thinking represents one of our highest‐order cognitive processes, involving multiple cortical structures and an intricate interplay between several cortical and subcortical networks. It results in novel ideas that translate to useful products or concepts. The evolutionary purpose of creativity is therefore apparent, as it advances our
Itay Tokatly Latzer, Phillip L. Pearl
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Social contagion of autobiographical memories
, 2017 We modified the social contagion of memory paradigm to track whether details mentioned during social interaction are transmitted to later individual recall for personal, autobiographical memories. Participants recalled four autobiographical events.
Harris, Celia B. (R20038) +7 more
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Journal of Forecasting, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Sustainability has become an important factor shaping financial markets and investor behavior. This paper examines the relationship between sustainability indices and Central European stock markets using a time–frequency approach. Wavelet coherence is employed to capture time‐varying co‐movements between sustainability indices and stock market
Zuzana Janková +4 more
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Herd behavior and contagion in financial markets
, 2008 We study a sequential trading financial market where there are gains from trade, that is, where informed traders have heterogeneous private values. We show that an informational cascade (i.e., a complete blockage of information) arises and prices fail to
Guarino, A., Cipriani, M.
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Occupational Licensing and Psychologist Supply
Health Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Does reducing interstate licensing barriers increase the supply of mental health providers? We study this question using the U.S. Psychology Interjurisdictional Compact (PSYPACT), which allows psychologists to practice across state lines via telemedicine without obtaining additional state licenses.
Daniel Goetz
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Exploring Joshua 7:1–5 through the lens of social contagion liability
Verbum et EcclesiaScholars of the Old Testament affirm that the book of Joshua through 2nd Kings is collectively called the deuteronomistic history. The literary unit of Joshua 7:1–5 is one the Locus Classicus of Old Testament.
Damian O. Odo, Dirk J. Human
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PLoS ONE, 2020 Contagion in online social networks (OSN) occurs when users are exposed to information disseminated by other users. Studies of contagion are largely devoted to the spread of viral information and to local neighbor-to-neighbor contagion.
Alon Bartal, Nava Pliskin, Oren Tsur
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The social contagion hypothesis: comment on ‘Social contagion theory: examining dynamic social networks and human behavior’ [PDF]
Statistics in Medicine, 2013 I reflect on the statistical methods of the Christakis–Fowler studies on network‐based contagion of traits by checking the sensitivity of these kinds of results to various alternate specifications and generative mechanisms. Despite the honest efforts of all involved, I remain pessimistic about establishing whether binary health outcomes or product ...
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