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New page: ECON207B was taught by Adam Szeidl and Shachar Kariv in the Spring of 2010. I auditted this class. ==Course Website== The course website was [http://www.econ.berkeley.edu/~szeidl/ec207B/...
ECON207B was taught by Adam Szeidl and Shachar Kariv in the Spring of 2010. I auditted this class.
==Course Website==
The course website was [http://www.econ.berkeley.edu/~szeidl/ec207B/ec207Bindex.htm].
==Course Materials==
There was a useful syllabus.
Lecture slides:
*Lecture 1
*Lecture 2
*Lecture 3
*Lecture 4
*Lecture 5&6
*Lecture 7
*Lecture 8 did not have slides
==Student Presentations==
All slides posted here are (C) copyright their respective authors. Please contact the authors before using them in any fashion.
===Games played on networks===
Presentation by Matt Leister (slides)
*Calvo-Armengol A., E. Patacchini and Y. Zenou (2009), Peer E¤ects and Social Networks in Education,Review of Economic Studies 76, 1239-1267.
*Galeotti, Goyal, Jackson, Vega-Redondo and Yariv (2010): Network Games, The Review of Economic Studies , 77 (1) , pp. 218244.
===Strategic network formation===
Presentation by Michele Muller (slides)
*Jackson and Wolinsky (1996): A Strategic Model of Social and Economic Networks, Journal of Economic Theory , 71 (1) , pp. 44-74.
*Christakis, N.A. and Fowler, J.H. and Imbens, G.W. and Kalyanaraman, K. (2010), "An empirical model for strategic network formation", National Bureau of Economic Research
===Strategic network formation===
Presentation by Marco Alexander Schwarz
*Bala and Goyal (2000): A Noncooperative Model of Network Formation, Econometrica, 68 (5) , pp. 11811229.
*Galeotti and Goyal (2010): The Law of the Few, American Economic Review.
===Statistical network formation===
Presentation by James
*Jackson and Rogers (2007): Meeting Strangers and Friends of Friends: How Random are Socially Generated Networks?, American Economic Review 97, pp. 890-915.
*Currarini, Jackson and Pin (2009): An Economic Model of Friendship: Homophily, Minorities and Segregation, Econometrica , 77 (4) , pp. 10031045.
===Information aggregation in networks===
Presentation by Junjie Zhou
*DeMarzo, Vayanos and Zwiebel (2003): Persuasion Bias, Social Influence and Unidimensional Opinions, Quarterly Journal of Economics , 118, pp. 909-968.
*Golub and Jackson (2010): Naive Learning in Social Networks: Convergence, Influence and the Wisdom of Crowds, American Economic Journal: Microeconomics.
===Networks and labor markets===
Presentation by Attila Lindner
*Calvo-Armengol and Jackson (2004): The E¤ects of Social Networks on Employment and Inequality, American Economic Review , 94 (3) , pp. 426-454
*Topa (2001): Social Interactions, Local Spillovers and Unemployment, Review of Economic Studies , 68 (2) , pp. 261-295
*Munshi (2003): Networks in the Modern Economy: Mexican Migrants in the US Labor Market, Quarterly Journal of Economics 118, pp. 549-599.
===Favoritism and political connections===
Presentation by Alisa Tazhitdinova
*Bramoulle, Y. and S. Goyal (2010), Favoritism,Working paper, Laval University and Cambridge.
*Khwaja, A., and A. Mian (2005). Do Lenders Favor Politically Connected Firms? Rent Provision in an Emerging Financial Market,Quarterly Journal of Economics 120.
===Financial networks===
Presentation by Tarso Mori Madeira
*Allen, Franklin and Gale, DouglasM. [2000] Financial Contagion,Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 108, No. 1.
*Allen, Franklin, Ana Babus and Elena Carletti [2010] Financial Connections and Systemic Risk,Working paper, UPenn, Cambridge, EUI.
===Financial networks===
Presentation by Vladimir
*Caballero, Ricardo, and Alp Simsek [2010] Complexity and Financial Panics,working paper, MIT and Harvard.
==Course Website==
The course website was [http://www.econ.berkeley.edu/~szeidl/ec207B/ec207Bindex.htm].
==Course Materials==
There was a useful syllabus.
Lecture slides:
*Lecture 1
*Lecture 2
*Lecture 3
*Lecture 4
*Lecture 5&6
*Lecture 7
*Lecture 8 did not have slides
==Student Presentations==
All slides posted here are (C) copyright their respective authors. Please contact the authors before using them in any fashion.
===Games played on networks===
Presentation by Matt Leister (slides)
*Calvo-Armengol A., E. Patacchini and Y. Zenou (2009), Peer E¤ects and Social Networks in Education,Review of Economic Studies 76, 1239-1267.
*Galeotti, Goyal, Jackson, Vega-Redondo and Yariv (2010): Network Games, The Review of Economic Studies , 77 (1) , pp. 218244.
===Strategic network formation===
Presentation by Michele Muller (slides)
*Jackson and Wolinsky (1996): A Strategic Model of Social and Economic Networks, Journal of Economic Theory , 71 (1) , pp. 44-74.
*Christakis, N.A. and Fowler, J.H. and Imbens, G.W. and Kalyanaraman, K. (2010), "An empirical model for strategic network formation", National Bureau of Economic Research
===Strategic network formation===
Presentation by Marco Alexander Schwarz
*Bala and Goyal (2000): A Noncooperative Model of Network Formation, Econometrica, 68 (5) , pp. 11811229.
*Galeotti and Goyal (2010): The Law of the Few, American Economic Review.
===Statistical network formation===
Presentation by James
*Jackson and Rogers (2007): Meeting Strangers and Friends of Friends: How Random are Socially Generated Networks?, American Economic Review 97, pp. 890-915.
*Currarini, Jackson and Pin (2009): An Economic Model of Friendship: Homophily, Minorities and Segregation, Econometrica , 77 (4) , pp. 10031045.
===Information aggregation in networks===
Presentation by Junjie Zhou
*DeMarzo, Vayanos and Zwiebel (2003): Persuasion Bias, Social Influence and Unidimensional Opinions, Quarterly Journal of Economics , 118, pp. 909-968.
*Golub and Jackson (2010): Naive Learning in Social Networks: Convergence, Influence and the Wisdom of Crowds, American Economic Journal: Microeconomics.
===Networks and labor markets===
Presentation by Attila Lindner
*Calvo-Armengol and Jackson (2004): The E¤ects of Social Networks on Employment and Inequality, American Economic Review , 94 (3) , pp. 426-454
*Topa (2001): Social Interactions, Local Spillovers and Unemployment, Review of Economic Studies , 68 (2) , pp. 261-295
*Munshi (2003): Networks in the Modern Economy: Mexican Migrants in the US Labor Market, Quarterly Journal of Economics 118, pp. 549-599.
===Favoritism and political connections===
Presentation by Alisa Tazhitdinova
*Bramoulle, Y. and S. Goyal (2010), Favoritism,Working paper, Laval University and Cambridge.
*Khwaja, A., and A. Mian (2005). Do Lenders Favor Politically Connected Firms? Rent Provision in an Emerging Financial Market,Quarterly Journal of Economics 120.
===Financial networks===
Presentation by Tarso Mori Madeira
*Allen, Franklin and Gale, DouglasM. [2000] Financial Contagion,Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 108, No. 1.
*Allen, Franklin, Ana Babus and Elena Carletti [2010] Financial Connections and Systemic Risk,Working paper, UPenn, Cambridge, EUI.
===Financial networks===
Presentation by Vladimir
*Caballero, Ricardo, and Alp Simsek [2010] Complexity and Financial Panics,working paper, MIT and Harvard.
