Goals:
This reading group aims to further our understanding on networks using the existing literature as a spring board for future research. The group will cover both the theory and the empirics of social networks, but would also include other types of networks (finance/macro/IO).
Organizers:
Durlauf, Steven
Gofman, Michael
Schechter, Laura
Meetings:
We meet weekly, on Mondays 11.45 am in SS7408, through the Fall Semester.
Reading List:
Macro/Finance
1. Systemic Risk and Network Formation in the Interbank Market (http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1815811)
2. Network Risk and Key Players: A Structural Analysis of Interbank Liquidity (http://www.lse.ac.uk/fmg/events/conferences/Network-conference/Papers/Christian-Julliard.pdf)
3, Nestedness in Networks: A Theoretical Model and Some applications (http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2013798
4. The Importance of Industry Links in Merger Waves (http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1522203)
5. Intermediation in Networks (http://economics.mit.edu/files/8933)
Social Interactions
1. Boucher, V., (2012), “Structural Homophiliy,” mimeo, University of Montreal.
2. Christakis, N., J. Fowler, G. Imbens, and K. Kalyanaraman, (2010), An Empirical Model for Strategic Network Formation,” NBER Working Paper no. 16039.
3. Goldsmith-Pinkham, P. and G. Imbens, (2012), “Social Networks and the Identification of Peer Effects,” mimeo, Harvard University.
4. Hsieh, C.-S. and L.-F. Lee, (2012), “A Structural Modeling Approach for Network Formation and Social Interactions-with Applications to Students’ Friendship Choices and Selectivity on Activities,” mimeo, Ohio State University.
5. Sheng, S., (2013), “Identification and Estimation of Network Formation Games,” mimeo University of Southern California.
6. Lavy, V. and E. Sand (2012), The Friends Factor: How Students' Social Networks Affect Their Academic Achievement and Well-Being? NBER Working Paper no. `8430
Network Formation/Structure/Theory
1. Chandrasekhar, A. and M. Jackson, (2012), “Tractable and Consistent Random Graph Models," mimeo, Stanford University.
2. Golub, G. and C. Lever, (2010), The Leverage of Weak Ties How Linking Groups Affects Inequality
3. Golub, B. and Y. Livne, (2010) Strategic Random Networks and Tipping Points in Network Formation