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Thursday 25 and Friday 26 May 2017
The Department of Economics at University
College London (UCL) will host the 5th European Conference on
Networks. This conference aims to
bring together economic researchers on networks in economics and related
topics. The conference will be held at UCL, 25-26 May 2017. The
program committee invites applied, econometrics and theoretical work on the
topic.
- Programme
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Thursday, 25 May 2017
09:15 - 09:30 Registration (and coffee) 09:30 - 11:00 Glenn Magermann, “The origins of firm heterogeneity: A production network approach”.
Jennifer La’O, "Distortions in production network".
11:00 - 11:15 Break 11:15 - 12:45 Michael Leung, “A weak law for moments of pairwise-stable networks".
Cristina Gualdani, “An econometric model of network formation with an application to board interlocks between firms”.
12.45-13.45 Lunch 13.45-15.15 Robin Lee, Bargaining and exclusion in health car markets".
Arlene Wong, “Measuring social connectedness".
15.15-15.30 Break 15.30-17.00 Xun Tang, "Identification and estimation of large network games with private link information".
Aureo de Paula, “Identifying and estimating social connections from outcome data".
Friday, 26 May 2017
09:15 - 09:30 Registration (and coffee) 09:30 - 11:00 Willemien Kets, “A Belief-based Theory of Homophily”.
Pau Milan, “Informal Risk Sharing with Local Information".
11:00 - 11:15 Break 11:15 - 12:15 Short Presentations
Arun Advani, “Insurance networks and poverty traps”.
Anton Badev, “Social networks and the stepping stone effect: The case of tobacco and marijuana”.
Alan Griffith, “Random assignment with non-random peers: A structural approach to counterfactual treatment assignment”.
Anja Prummer, “Gender and social networks”.
Alireza Tahbaz-Salehi, “Network interactions and the social value of information".
12.15-13.15 Lunch 13.15-14:45 Dominic Rohner, “The Violent Legacy of Victimization: Post-Conflict Evidence on Asylum Seekers, Crimes and Public Policy in Switzerland” (joint with Mathieu Couttenier, Veronica Preotu and Mathias Thoenig).
Luigi Pistaferri. Consumption network effects".
14:45-15.00 Break 15.00-15:45 Marzena Rostek, "Decentralized market games".
Confirmed speakers include:
Jennifer La’O (Columbia University)
Robin Lee (Harvard University)
Aureo de Paula (University College London)
Luigi Pistaferri (Stanford University)
Dominic Rohner (University of Lausanne)
Marzena Rostek (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Scientific Committee
Yann Bramoulle, Aix-Marseille University
Vasco Carvalho, Cambridge University
Andrea Galeotti, European University Institute and Essex University
Sanjeev Goyal, Cambridge University
Aureo de Paula, University College London
Adam Szeidl, Central European University
