The economics of social networks
16 - 17 June 2010
The Marriott Hotel, College Green, Bristol
Conference Organisers: In-Uck Park and Sarah Smith
Social and economic networks are pervasive, playing an important role in various economic decisions, with profound and long-term implications on economic efficiency and welfare. The economic analysis of networks has made extensive developments over the years, overcoming both theoretical challenges and issues surrounding data sets. This two-day conference fostered further advancement of the subject by bringing together a group of leading researchers in the field to present and discuss their findings at the frontier of research.
Conference flyer (pdf, 105 kB)
Conference participants:
- Heski Bar-Issac (New York University) with Guillermo Caruana and Vicente Cuñat
Search, Design and Market Structure Paper (pdf, 361 kB) Slides (pdf, 888 kB)
Discussant: Silvia Sonderegger (University of Bristol)
- Michele Belot (Nuffield College, Oxford)
The Own-Race Bias in Memory and the Structure of Cross-Racial Relations Paper (pdf 210 kB)
Discussant: Gregory Jolivet (University of Bristol)
- Sergio Currarini (University Ca' Foscari Venice) with Fernando Vega-Redondo
Homophily and search Slides (pdf, 1.6 mB)
Discussant: Francesco Giovannoni (University of Bristol)
- Marcel Fafchamps (University of Oxford) with Margherita Comola
Testing Unilateral and Bilateral Link Formation Paper (pdf, 194 kB) Slides (pdf, 609 kB)
Discussant: Lori Beaman (Northwestern University)
- Sanjeev Goyal (University of Cambridge) with Marcel Fafchamps, Marco van der Leij and Lorenzo Ductor
Using social networks to predict individual productivity
Discussant: Markus Mobius (Harvard University) Discussion slides (pdf, 51 kB)
- Matthew Jackson (Stanford University) with Tomas Rodriquez-Barraquer and Xu Tan
Social Capital and Social Quilts: Network Patterns of Favor Exchange Paper (pdf, 606 kB)
Discussant: Ian Jewitt (University of Oxford) Discussion slides (pdf, 58 kB)
- Massimo Morrelli (Columbia University) with In-Uck Park
Internal Hierarchy and Equilibrium Coalition Structures
Discussant: Daniel Seidmann (University of Nottingham)
- Tanya Rosenblat (Iowa State University) with Dean Karlan, Markus Mobius and Adam Szeidl
Measuring Social Capital in Peruvian Shantytowns Paper (pdf, 157 kB) Slides (1.2 mB)
Discussant: Andrew Zeitlin (University of Oxford)
- Sarah Smith with Edmund Wright (University of Bristol)
The effect of social influences on giving: Evidence from the (running) field Slides (pdf, 798 kB)
Discussant: Clare Leaver (University of Oxford)
- Fernando Vega-Redondo (European University Institute)
Globalization and institutions: a social network approach
Discussant: In-Uck Park (University of Bristol)
For more information about this conference please contact: amanda.edmondson@bristol.ac.uk
SuSTaIn (Statistics underpinning Science, Technology and Industry) at the University of Bristol is holding a related research workshop entitled 'Statistical modelling and inference for networks' (Statworks) 28 June - 1 July 2010
