Network dependent altruism and economic growth
| buir.advisor | Sağlam, H. Çağrı | |
| dc.contributor.author | Çetin, Sefane | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2016-07-22T13:38:34Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2016-07-22T13:38:34Z | |
| dc.date.copyright | 2016-07 | |
| dc.date.issued | 2016-07 | |
| dc.date.submitted | 2016-07-21 | |
| dc.department | Department of Economics | en_US |
| dc.description | Cataloged from PDF version of article. | en_US |
| dc.description | Thesis (M.S.): Bilkent University, Department of Economics, İhsan Doğramacı Bilkent University, 2016. | en_US |
| dc.description | Includes bibliographical references (leaves 19-21). | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | This thesis studies reference dependent agents in a static network where the reference point is the average behaviour in one's neighbourhood. It shows that the economy grows at a constant rate on the balanced growth path while income inequality and the speed of convergence depend on the specific network structure. For particular networks, initial inequalities remain in the long-run. However, it is also possible that depending on the location of agents, a lagged agent may surpass the ones who had higher initial human capital than her and as a result, a society that has too disperse initial distribution may admit an equilibrium in which the wealth distribution converges towards equality in the long-run. In short, in an economy at which the production depends on human capital, income inequalities can be explained by taking the network structure of the economy into account. | en_US |
| dc.description.degree | M.A. | en_US |
| dc.description.statementofresponsibility | by Sefane Çetin. | en_US |
| dc.embargo.release | 2018-07-21 | |
| dc.format.extent | ix, 22 leaves. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.itemid | B153654 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11693/30155 | |
| dc.language.iso | English | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Bilkent University | en_US |
| dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | en_US |
| dc.subject | Altruism | en_US |
| dc.subject | Human capital | en_US |
| dc.subject | Networks | en_US |
| dc.subject | Reference-dependence | en_US |
| dc.title | Network dependent altruism and economic growth | en_US |
| dc.title.alternative | Ağa bağlı fedakarlık ve ekonomik büyüme | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |