Yves Zenou is a Professor of Economics at Monash University. His fields of interest are social interactions and network theory; urban economics; segregation and discrimination of ethnic minorities; identity and assimilation of emigrants; economics of crime; and education. Yves Zenou is affiliated to the Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN, Stockhom), the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR, London) and the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA, Bonn). He is an Associate Editor of Regional Science and Urban Economics, the Journal of Urban Economics and the Scandinavian Journal of Economics. He is Elected Fellow of the Econometric Society and Fellow of the Regional Science Association International.
Discussion paper
DP17349 Competing Diffusions in a Social Network
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- Social Networks 
- Threshold models 
- Homophily 
- Diffusion 
- Information transmission 
- Influencers
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DP17315 Toward a General Theory of Peer Effects
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- Peer effects 
- Spillovers 
- Conformism 
- Structural estimation 
- Policies
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DP17306 Heterogenous Peer Effects: How Community Connectivity Affects Car Purchases
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- Conspicuous consumption 
- Neighbor effects 
- Population density 
- Tight-knit community
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DP17084 Community Formation in Networks
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- Communities 
- Networks 
- Seeds 
- Key players 
- Network density 
- Welfare
VoxEU Column
How information and social norms affect criminal activities
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- Frontiers of economic research 
- Crime 
- Strategic interactions 
- Networks 
- Social
VoxEU Column
Neighbourhood effects in early education
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The influence of leaders on criminal decisions
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- Frontiers of economic research 
- Crime 
- criminal leaders 
- Juvenile crime 
- intercentrality
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Selective immigration policies and migrant ‘quality’
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- Labour Markets 
- Migration 
- immigration policies 
- high-skilled migrants 
- observable characteristics 
- unobservables