Barcelona GSE Research

Social Networks and Peer Effects: Theory and Applications - Program

A Conference in memory of Antoni Calvó-Armengol held May 29 -  May 31, 2008

Thursday, May 29, 2008

Welcome address by Clara Ponsatí

 

Chair: Andreu Mas-Colell

• Presentation of Antoni Calvó-Armengol's research by Matthew O: Jackson and Yves Zenou (in English)
• Francis Bloch (Ecole Polytechnique): "Pricing in Networks" (with Nicolas Querou)
  Discussant: Coralio Ballester (Universidad de Alicante)
• Marcel Fafchamps (Oxford University): "Peer Effects in Academic Productivity " (with Sanjeev Goyal)
  Discussant: Andrea Galeotti (University of Essex)

Coffee Break

• Bryan S. Graham (University of California - Berkeley): "Measuring the Average Outcome and Inequality Effects of Segregation in the Presence of Social Spillovers"
  Discussant: Marco van der Leij (Universidad de Alicante).

Lunch Break

 

Chair: Guillaume Haeringer

• Andrea Prat (London School of Economics): "Network Games with Endogenous Communication" (with Antoni Calvó-Armengol and Joan de Marti).
  Discussant: Rahmi Ilkilic (University of Maastricht)
• Giorgio Topa (Federal Reserve Bank, New York): "Social spillovers in personal bankruptcy filings" (with Astrid Dick and Andreas Lehnert)
  Discussant: Eleonora Patacchini (Università di Roma "La Sapienza")

Coffee Break

 

Chair: Yves Zenou

• Antonio Cabrales (Universitat Carlos III de Madrid): "Social Interactions and Spillovers: Incentives, Segregation and Topology" (with Antoni Calvó-Armengol and Yves Zenou)
  Discussant: Joel Sobel (University of California, San Diego)
• Kaivan Munshi (Brown University): "The Birth of a Business Community: Intergenerational Mobility in a Networked Economy"

Friday, May 30, 2008

Chair: Salvador Barberà

• Judy Hellerstein (University of Maryland): "Labor Market Networks and Black Employment," (with Melissa McInerney and David Neumark)
  Discussant: Etienne Wasmer (Sciences Po, Paris)
• Sanjeev Goyal (Cambridge University): "Keeping up with the neighbours: social interaction in a market economy" (with Christian Ghiglino)
  Discussant: Bhaskar Dutta (University of Warwick)

Coffee Break

• Matthew O. Jackson (Stanford University): "Peer Pressure" (with Antoni Calvó-Armengol)
  Discussant: Guillaume Haeringer (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)

Lunch Break

 

Chair: Clara Ponsatí

• Markus Mobius (Harvard University): “Consumption risk-sharing in social networks” (with Attila Ambrus and Adam Szeidl).
  Discussant: Debraj Ray (New York University)
• Steven N: Durlauf (University of Wisconsin-Madison): "Adoption Curves and Social Interactions" (with William Brock)
  Discussant: Bryan S: Graham (University of California - Berkeley)

Coffee Break

 

Chair: Xavier Vives

• Yannis M: Ioannides (Tufts University): "Complexity and Organizational Architecture"
  Discussant: Sudipta Sarangi (Louisiana State University)
• Giacomo De Giorgi (Stanford University): "Insurance in the Extended Family"
  Discussant: Nicola Pavoni (University College London)

Presentation of the "Calvó-Armengol International Prize" and signature of the funding agreement between the Government of Andorra, represented by its Minister of Research, Crèdit Andorrà and the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics

 

Cocktail reception

Saturday, May 31, 2008

Chair: Matthew Jackson

• Fernando Vega-Redondo (European University Institute): "Peer effects and peer avoidance: Epidemic diffusion in coevolving networks" (with Constanza Fosco and Matteo Marsili)
  Discussant: Jacomo Corbo (Harvard University)
• Joan de Marti (Universitat Pompeu Fabra): "Friendship Formation, Oppositional Identity, and Segregation" (with Yves Zenou)
  Discussant: Willemien Kets (Santa Fe Institute)

Coffee Break

• Myrna Wooders (Vanderbilt University): "Club networks with Multiple Membership and Noncooperative Stability"(with Frank Page)
  Discussant: Adrien Vigier (Cambridge University)

Lunch Break

 

Chair: Caterina Calsamiglia

• Yann Bramoullé (University of Laval): "Strategic Substitutes and Networks" (with Rachel Kranton and Martin d'Amours)
  Discussant: Brian W: Rogers (Northwestern University)
• Linda Datcher Loury (Tufts University): "All in the extended family:grandparents and college attendace"
  Discussant: Dotan Persitz (Tel Aviv University)

Coffee Break

 

Chair: Yannis Ioannides

• Bruce Weinberg (Ohio State University): "Social Interactions with Endogenous Associations"
  Discussant: Caterina Calsamiglia (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
• Pedro Rey-Biel (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona): "The design of Affirmative Action Matters: A Tournament Experiment with Real Effort" (with Caterina Calsamiglia and Jörg Franke).
  Discussant: Antonio Cabrales (Universitat Carlos III de Madrid)

NB. Each presentation lasts 35 minutes. The discussant has 10 minuts and there is 5 minutes for questions from the audience.