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Complex Contagion in Social Networks: Causal Evidence from a Country-Scale Field Experiment

open access: yesSociological Science
Complex contagion rests on the idea that individuals are more likely to adopt a behavior if they experience social reinforcement from multiple sources.
Jaemin Lee, David Lazer, Christoph Riedl
doaj   +1 more source

Social Contagion in Veganville [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
Abstract Meeting the 1.5°C commitment will mean the per capita emissions need to come down to 2.6 tonnes by 2030. Epidemiological contagion modelling principles are applied to transfer of trending climate conscious food choices. This research applies social contagion theory to explore “reproduction values” and “recovery rates” of vegan diets ...
openaire   +1 more source

Dynamic Spillovers Between FinTech, Blockchain, and Green Finance: A Quantile Connectedness Approach

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper explores how financial innovation and environmental sustainability intersect by analyzing spillovers between FinTech, blockchain energy use, and green finance. Using a Quantile Vector Autoregression (QVAR) framework, we examine weekly data from 2018 to 2024 across 11 digital, environmental, and macro‐financial indices.
Mehmet Sahiner, Sisi Sung, James Devlin
wiley   +1 more source

Evidence for complex contagion models of social contagion from observational data. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2017
Social influence can lead to behavioural 'fads' that are briefly popular and quickly die out. Various models have been proposed for these phenomena, but empirical evidence of their accuracy as real-world predictive tools has so far been absent.
Daniel A Sprague, Thomas House
doaj   +1 more source

Contagion and state dependent mutations [PDF]

open access: yes, 2000
Early results of evolutionary game theory showed that the risk dominant equilibrium is uniquely selected on the long run by the best response dynamics with mutation.
Valentinyi, Akos   +2 more
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Climate Change Risk and Financial Stability: Implications for European Banking Institutions

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines whether climate change risk weakens banking‐system stability in the European Union and assesses how renewable energy adoption and energy‐related taxation moderate this relationship. Using panel data for 27 EU countries from 2012 to 2022 and applying fixed‐effects OLS, two‐stage least squares (2SLS), and robust generalized ...
Md Yousuf Ali
wiley   +1 more source

A generalized model of social and biological contagion [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Theoretical Biology, 2005
18 pages, 11 figures, 2 ...
Dodds, Peter S., Watts, D. J.
openaire   +3 more sources

Policy and Market Mechanisms for Sustainable Finance: A Systematic Review and Research Agenda

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sustainable finance has emerged as a critical instrument for addressing the dual challenges of climate change and sustainable development. Nonetheless, a substantial financing gap persists, while the concept remains under‐theorized without a universally accepted definition, and empirical evidence of its effectiveness remains inconsistent and ...
Jihyung Joo, Byounguk Keum, Taewoo Roh
wiley   +1 more source

When Nature Counts: Corporate Biodiversity Attention and Access to Bank Finance

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper investigates whether corporate attention to biodiversity influences firms' access to bank loans, an overlooked question in the emerging biodiversity–finance literature. Using a novel, text‐based measure constructed from 446 biodiversity‐related keywords and applied to Chinese A‐share listed firms from 2000 to 2023, we show that ...
Ruxiao Li   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Emotions spread like contagious diseases

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology
Emotional contagion, that is, the spontaneous synchronization of emotions among individuals, is the basic mechanism of social cohesion and survival of different species. Emotional contagion can be observed in humans and many animals, and it has become an
Hao Liu   +4 more
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