European Meetings
on Networks
Workshop Series
2015 • 2014 • 2013
The Meetings aim to offer a forum for the presentation and dissemination
of frontier research on Networks.
Third European Meeting on Networks
University of Cambridge, Moller Centre, Churchill College, 18-19 June
Thursday 18 June 2015
10:30 – 11:15 Registration & coffee
11:15 – 11:30 Welcome remarks
Session 1
Networks and Markets
Session 2
Production Networks and Markets
11:30 – 12:15 Matthew Jackson (Stanford) - Changes in Social Network Structure in Response to
Exposure to Formal Credit Markets
12:15 – 13:00 Sanjeev Goyal (Cambridge) - Networks, Markets and Inequality
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 14:45
14:45 – 15:30
15:30 – 16:00
16:00 – 16:45
16:45 – 17:30
19:00
Vasco Carvalho (Cambridge) - Input Diffusion and the Evolution of Production Networks
Andrew Bernard (Dartmouth) - Production Networks, Geography and Firm Performance
Coffee Break
Adam Szeidl (CEU) - Interfirm Relationships and Business Performance
Alessandro Gavazza (LSE) - A Quantitative Analysis of the Retail Market for Illicit Drugs
Dinner at Jesus College: (by invitation only)
Friday 19 June 2015
Session 1
9:30 – 10:15
10:15 – 11:00
11:00 – 11:30
11:30 – 12:15
12:15 – 14:00
Maryam Farboodi (Princeton) - Strategic Opaqueness
Jakub Kastl (Princeton) - An Empirical Analysis of Systemic Risk in the EURO-zone
Coffee Break
Andrea Galeotti (Essex) - Financial linkages, Risk Taking and Welfare
Lunch
Session 2
14:00 – 14:45
14:45 – 15:30
15:30 – 16:00
16:00 – 16:45
Financial Networks
Social Networks
Bryan Graham (Berkeley) - Homophily vs. Transitivity in Dynamic Network Formation
Yann Bramoulle (Marseille) - Altruism in Networks
Coffee Break
Ben Golub (Harvard) - Consensus, Expectations and Conventions
Local organizers: Vasco Carvalho and Sanjeev Goyal
Second European Meeting on Networks
University of Essex, Colchester, Wivenhoe House Hotel, 16-17 June
Monday 16 June 2014
8:45-9:1.5
9:15-10:00
10:00-10:45
10:45-11:15
11:15-12:00
12:00-12:45
12:45-13:45
13:45-14:30
14:30-15:15
15:15-15:45
15:45-16:30
16:30-15:15
19:00-
Registration and coffee
Kaivan Munshi (Cambridge) - Networks and Misallocation: Insurance, Migration,
and the Rural-Urban Wage Gap
Markus Mobius (Microsoft) - TBA
Coffee break
Amit Khandelwal (Columbia Business School} - Organizational Barriers to
Technology Adoption within Manufacturing Firms: Evidence from Pakistan
Lauren Cohen (HBS) - Resident Networks and Firm Trade
Lunch break
Gary Charness (UCSB) - Identities, Selection, and Contributions in a Public-goods
Game
Friederike Mengel (Essex) - An Experiment on Belief Formation in Networks
Coffee break
Scott Carrell (UC Davis) Racial Preference Formation
Adam Szeidl (CEU) - Political Connections and Procurement in Hungary
Conference Dinner at Wivenhoe House
Tuesday 17 June 2014
8:30-9:00
9:00-9:45
9:45-10:30
10:30-11:00
11:00-11:45
11:00-11:45
12:30-13:30
13:30-14:15
14.15-15.00
Coffee
Arun Chandrasekhar (Stanford) - Tractable and Consistent Random Graph Models
Aureo De Paula (UCL) - Econometric Analysis of a Network Formation Game
Coffee break
Mihai Manea (MIT) - Striving for Social Status
Vasco M. Carvalho (Cambridge) - Supply Chain Disruptions
Lunch break
Ezra Oberfield (Princeton) - Business Networks, Production Chains, and Productivity
Andrea Galeotti (Essex) Competing Chains
Local organizer: Andrea Galeotti
First European Meeting on Networks
Central European University, Budapest, 1-2 July 2013
Monday 1 July 2013
9:15-9:45
9:45-10:30
10:30-11:15
11:15-11:45
11:45-12:30
12:30-13:45
13:45-14:30
14:30-15:15
15:15-15:45
15:45-16:30
19:00 -
Coffee and pastries
Matt Jackson (Stanford) – Tractable Models for Statistical Analysis of Networks’
Thomas Chaney (Toulouse) – The Gravity Equation in International Trade
Coffee break
Arthur Campbell (Yale SOM) - Buzz
Lunch break
Alireza Tahbaz-Salehi (Columbia) – Systematic Risk and Stability in Financial Networks
Peter Kondor (CEU) - Trading and Information Diffusion in OTC Markets
Coffee break
Abhijit Banerjee (MIT) – TBA
Conference dinner
Tuesday 2 July 2013
9:15-9:45
9:45-10:30
10:30-11:15
11:15-11:45
11:45-12:30
13:45-16:30
16:30-15:15
15:15-15:45
15:45-16:30
Coffee and pastries
Esther Duflo (MIT) - The Diffusion of Agricultural Technology: Evidence from a
Randomized Experiment in Rwanda.
Jing Cai (Michigan) - Social Networks and Decision to Insure
Coffee break
Lori Beaman (Northwestern) - TBA
Markus Mobius (Iowa State University, Microsoft) - Incentives to talk
Georg Weizsacker (Berlin) - An Experiment on Social Mislearning
Coffee break
Adam Szeidl (CEU) - Political Connections and Economic Misallocation
Local organizer: Adam Szeidl