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VI Summer School on Economics and Philosophy

THE ROLE OF SOCIAL INTERACTIONS AND NETWORKS IN ECONOMICS

Urrutia-Elejalde Foundation & University of the Basque Country

San Sebastian (Spain) | 21st July - 24th July, 2003

Directors: Matthew O. Jackson (Caltech) & Antoni Calvó-Armengol (UAB)

Coordination: Alfonso Dubois (UPV/EHU)

http://escuela.urrutiaelejalde.org/network_theory.html

Many interactions involve network relationships. For this reason, social and
economic networks often determine the economic success of individuals and,
thereby, play a prominent role in explaining a wide range of economic
phenomena. During the last decade, a flowering literature has undertaken a
systematic theoretical and empirical scrutiny of the role played by networks
in economics. In an attempt to understand how the shape of the network
frames agents decisions, an important part of the literature relates the
specifics of the network structure to predicted behaviour in a variety of
contexts. The endogenous creation of social networks is also a recurrent
theme of analysis. On the empirical side, efforts have concentrated on the
detection and measurement of network effects in the data, and the
identification of the network relationships underlying observed patterns of
behaviour.


SPEAKERS: Francis Bloch (GREQAM); Antoni Calvó-Armengol (Universitat
Autònoma de Barcelona); Baskhar Dutta (University of Warwick); Matthew O.
Jackson (California Institute of Technology); Rachel Kranton (University of
Maryland); Joel Sobel (University of California San Diego); Giorgio Topa
(New York University); Fernando Vega-Redondo (Universidad de Alicante)

CONTRIBUTED PAPERS: Contributed papers: The organizers will consider short
presentation proposals for a 30mn talk (20mn talk + 10mn questions) on any
of the topics to be discussed at the Summer School. Please, submit an
extended abstract to Antoni Calvó-Armengol [[log in to unmask]] before May
31st.

The organization also offers a number of GRANTS to cover registration fees o
r accomodation.

FURTHER INFORMATION:

Any question concerning the VI Summer School may be addressed to its
coordinator, Alfonso Dubois [[log in to unmask]]. See also:

http://www.sc.ehu.es/scrwwwsu/Ingles/cv.htm

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Ainhoa de Federico de la Rúa

PhD candidate at
Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille (France)
Universidad Pública de Navarra (Spain)

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