Matthew O. Jackson
Eberle Professor of Economics and Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research
Bio
http://www.stanford.edu/~jacksonm/bio.html
Academic Appointments
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Professor, Economics
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Senior Fellow, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR)
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Member, Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
Administrative Appointments
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Chair Economics Section, National Academy of Sciences (2021 - 2024)
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Senior Fellow, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (2010 - 2020)
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William D. Eberle Professor of Economics, Stanford University (2008 - Present)
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External Faculty Member, Santa Fe Institute (2007 - Present)
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Professor of Economics, Stanford University (2006 - 2008)
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Edie and Lew Wasserman Professor of Economics, California Institute of Technology (2002 - 2006)
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Professor of Economics, California Institute of Technology (1997 - 2002)
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IBM Distinguished Professor of Regularity and Competitive Practices and Chairman of MEDS department, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University (1996 - 1997)
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Mechthild E. Nemmers Distinguished Professor and Chairman of MEDS, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University (1995 - 1996)
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Professor (MEDS), Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University (1993 - 1994)
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Associate Professor (MEDS), Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University (1991 - 1993)
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Assistant Professor (MEDS), Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University (1988 - 1991)
Honors & Awards
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Slater Family Lecturer of the Year Prize, Technion (2022)
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Frontiers of Knowledge Award: Economics Finance and Management, BBVA (2021)
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President, Game Theory Society (2020-2022)
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Jean-Jacques Laffont Prize, Toulouse School of Economics (2020)
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Fellow, Game Theory Society (2017)
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Member, National Academy of Sciences (2015)
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the von Neumann Award, Rajk Laszlo College (2015)
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Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching in Humanities and Sciences, Stanford University (2013)
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Honorary Doctorate, Aix-Marseille University (2013)
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Distinguished Teaching Award, Stanford Department of Economics (2012)
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Economic Theory Fellow, Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory (2011)
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Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2009)
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Outstanding Teaching Award, Stanford Graduate Economics Association (2008)
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Arrow Prize for Senior Economists, BEPress (2007)
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Fellow, Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences (2005-2006)
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Guggenheim Fellow, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (2005)
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Social Choice and Welfare Prize, Society for Social Choice and Welfare (2001)
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Fellow, Econometric Society (1998)
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Class of 1916 Cup, Princeton University (1984)
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Wolf Balleisen Memorial Prize, Princeton University (1984)
Boards, Advisory Committees, Professional Organizations
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Co-Editor, Econometrica (2011 - 2015)
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Editor, Games and Economic Behavior (2007 - 2011)
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Co-Editor, Econometric Society Monograph Series (2001 - 2008)
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Co-Editor, Review of Economic Design (1997 - 2006)
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Associate Editor, Econometrica (1998 - 2007)
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Associate Editor, Games and Economic Behavior (1996 - 2007)
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Associate Editor, Journal of Economic Theory (1993 - 2001)
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Associate Editor, Journal of Public Economic Theory (1997 - 2006)
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Associate Editor, Mathematical Social Sciences (1995 - 2006)
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Associate Editor, Not a Journal of Economics (2005 - Present)
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Associate Editor, Theoretical Economics (2005 - 2008)
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External Faculty Member, Santa Fe Institute (2007 - Present)
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Vice Chair, Economics Department, Stanford University (2008 - 2011)
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Chair, Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences Department, KGSM Northwestern University (1995 - 1997)
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Director, Stanford Institute in Theoretical Economics (SITE) (2006 - 2010)
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Director, CEME-NSF Decentralization Conference Series (2002 - 2010)
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Director, Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL), Caltech (2003 - 2005)
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Executive Committee Member, Econometric Society (2010 - 2012)
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Selection Committee, Chair, Calvó-Armengol International Prize in Economics (2010 - 2010)
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Selection Committee, Chair, Calvó-Armengol International Prize in Economics (2012 - 2012)
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Selection Committee, Chair, Calvó-Armengol International Prize in Economics (2014 - 2014)
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Selection Committee Member, Nakahara Prize, Japanese Economic Association (2008 - 2012)
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Fellowship Nominating Committee Member, Society for Advancement of Economic Theory (2012 - 2013)
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Fellows Nominating Committee Member, Econometric Society (2007 - 2008)
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Fellows Nominating Committee, Chair, Econometric Society (2009 - 2009)
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Council Member, Econometric Society (2006 - 2012)
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Council Member and Charter Member, Game Theory Society (2004 - 2009)
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Council Member and Founding Member, Society for Social Choice and Welfare (1992 - 1997)
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Council Member and Founding Member, Society for Social Choice and Welfare (2000 - 2005)
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Council Member and Founding Member, Society for Social Choice and Welfare (2008 - 2013)
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Scientific Advisory Board Member, Graduate School of Economics Barcelona (2007 - Present)
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Scientific Advisory Board, Chair, MOVE (2010 - Present)
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Advisory Board Member, Center for Research in Microeconomics, University of Cambridge (2008 - Present)
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Economics Review Panel Member, National Science Foundation (NSF) (2000 - 2002)
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Member, Economics Teaching Award Committee (2013 - 2013)
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Member, Econometrica Co-editor Search Committee (2013 - 2013)
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Member, Fellowship Nominating Committee, SAET (2012 - 2013)
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Chair, Calvo-Armengol Prize Selection Committee (2013 - 2013)
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Member, Santa Fe Institute Faculty Search Committee (2013 - 2013)
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Member, Theoretical Economics, Co-editor search committee (2011 - 2011)
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Member, Stanford Economics Senior Search committee (2011 - 2011)
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Member, Econometric Society Transparency committee (2010 - 2010)
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Chair, Committee to Structure Programming Course for economics PhD students (2009 - 2009)
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Member, Theoretical Economics Advisory Committee, Econometric Society (2009 - 2009)
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Member, Econometric Society Fellows Nomination Committee (2009 - 2009)
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Chair, Antoni Calvo-Armengol Memorial Prize Selection Committee (2009 - 2009)
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Co-Chair, Junior Recruiting Committee (2007 - 2008)
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Member, International Economics Search Committee (2008 - 2008)
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Co-Chair, Junior Recruiting Committee (2006 - 2007)
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Member, Walras-Bowley Lecture Selection Committee, Econometric Society (2006 - 2006)
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Member, New Journal Research Committee, Econometric Society (2005 - 2005)
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Member, Louis-André Gerard-Varet Prize Selection Committee (2004 - 2004)
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Member, Nemmers Prize Selection Committee (2004 - 2004)
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Member, Social Choice and Welfare Prize Selection Committee (2003 - 2003)
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Member, Koc Prize Selection Committee (1998 - 2004)
Professional Education
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Ph.D., Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, Economics (1988)
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B.A., Princeton University, Economics (1984)
2026-27 Courses
- Microeconomic Theory Seminar
ECON 391 (Aut, Win, Spr) - Microeconomics III
ECON 204 (Spr) - Social and Economic Networks
ECON 291 (Spr) -
Independent Studies (4)
- Directed Reading
ECON 139D (Aut, Win, Spr) - Directed Reading
ECON 239D (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Honors Thesis Research
ECON 199D (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Practical Training
ECON 299 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum)
- Directed Reading
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Prior Year Courses
2025-26 Courses
- Microeconomic Theory Seminar
ECON 391 (Aut, Win, Spr) - Microeconomics III
ECON 204 (Spr) - Social and Economic Networks
ECON 291 (Spr)
2024-25 Courses
- Microeconomic Theory Seminar
ECON 391 (Aut, Win, Spr) - Networks and Human Behavior
ECON 46 (Win) - Social and Economic Networks
ECON 291 (Win)
2023-24 Courses
- Microeconomic Theory Seminar
ECON 391 (Aut, Win, Spr)
- Microeconomic Theory Seminar
Stanford Advisees
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Doctoral Dissertation Reader (AC)
Alex Tordjman -
Doctoral Dissertation Advisor (AC)
Sumhith Aradhyula, Luiz Guilherme Carpizo Fernandes Costa, Thomas Rutter -
Doctoral Dissertation Co-Advisor (AC)
Ben Davies
All Publications
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Multiplexing in networks and diffusion.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
2026; 123 (28): e2534923123
Abstract
We study multiplexing-the extent to which people have multiple, distinct types of relationships with the same others. We document empirical multiplexing patterns in Indian village data. We show that relationships such as socializing, advising, helping, and lending are correlated but distinct, while commonly used proxies for networks based on ethnicity and geography are nearly uncorrelated with actual relationships. We also show that these layers and their overlap affect information diffusion in a field experiment. On the theoretical side, we show that increased overlap in people's different types of relationships impedes the spread of simple contagions-such as diseases or basic information that spread through a single interaction. In contrast, such higher levels of multiplexing enhance the spread of a complex contagion (e.g., a behavior or belief that requires multiple interactions for transmission) when infection rates are low, but impede complex contagion if infection rates are high. Finally, we identify empirical differences in multiplexing by gender and connectedness.
View details for DOI 10.1073/pnas.2534923123
View details for PubMedID 42430354
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Peer influence on West Point cadets' Civil War allegiances.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
2026; 123 (22): e2529668123
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Do social networks and peer influence shape major life decisions in polarized settings? We explore this question by examining how peers influenced the allegiances of West Point cadets during the American Civil War. Leveraging quasi-random variations in the proportion of cadets from Free States, we analyze how cadets' decisions about which army to join depended on the composition of their peers. We have three main findings. First, there was a strong and significant peer effect: a higher proportion of classmates from Free States significantly increased the likelihood that cadets from Slave States joined the Union Army. Second, the peer effect varies with geography, most notably with the slave population share in cadets' home states or counties, and with cadets' own slave ownership in 1860. Third, peer effects were amplified by shared experiences such as having served together in the Mexican-American War, continuous military service, and belonging to the same cohort, suggesting that sustained interaction is important.
View details for DOI 10.1073/pnas.2529668123
View details for PubMedID 42201964
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The Role of Referrals in Immobility, Inequality, and Inefficiency in Labor Markets
JOURNAL OF LABOR ECONOMICS
2026
View details for DOI 10.1086/733048
View details for Web of Science ID 001689254300001
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Behavioral Communities and the Atomic Structure of Networks
AMERICAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL-MICROECONOMICS
2026; 18 (1): 146-173
View details for DOI 10.1257/mic.20230304
View details for Web of Science ID 001682942600005
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Optimal regulation and investment incentives in financial networks
JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ECONOMICS
2025; 252
View details for DOI 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2025.105516
View details for Web of Science ID 001619391300001
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Bridging the empathy perception gap fosters social connection.
Nature human behaviour
2025
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Young adults face a rising tide of mental illness and loneliness. We propose that an overlooked barrier for social connection is how people perceive each other's empathy. Here, our longitudinal study of an undergraduate student community (N = 5,192) reveals that undergraduates who perceive their peers as empathic report better current and future well-being. Yet we document an 'empathy perception gap': people systematically see others as less empathic than others see themselves. Students who perceived their peers as less empathic were less willing to take social risks and grew more isolated over time. To disrupt this cycle, we conducted two field experiments that presented students with data on their peers' self-reported empathy and behavioural nudges to encourage social risk taking. These interventions reduced the empathy perception gap, increased social behaviours and expanded social networks months later. This work offers a promising, scalable strategy to cultivate social well-being, simply by presenting people with data about each other.
View details for DOI 10.1038/s41562-025-02307-1
View details for PubMedID 41102496
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Using large language models to categorize strategic situations and decipher motivations behind human behaviors.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
2025; 122 (35): e2512075122
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By varying prompts to a large language model, we can elicit the full range of human behaviors in a variety of different scenarios in classic economic games. By analyzing which prompts elicit which behaviors, we can categorize and compare different strategic situations, which can also help provide insight into what different economic scenarios might induce people to think about. We discuss how this provides a step toward a nonstandard method of inferring (deciphering) the motivations behind the human behaviors. We also show how this deciphering process can be used to categorize differences in the behavioral tendencies of different populations.
View details for DOI 10.1073/pnas.2512075122
View details for PubMedID 40875803
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Welfare optimization for resource allocation with peer effects.
PNAS nexus
2025; 4 (9): pgaf298
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Allocating students to schools or universities, people to teams or groups, people to urban housing, and matching users on social platforms are prominent examples of allocating limited goods, spaces, or positions to optimize social welfare. We study a welfare maximization problem that arises when such resource allocation scenarios involve peer effects, where people have preferences over the others who are nearby (e.g. their classmates, teammates, neighbors, or partners). We first develop a unified mathematical framework for this "position allocation problem," which assigns people to positions in a given network, with people caring about both their positions and their neighbors' attributes. We show that welfare maximization for the corresponding position allocation problem is computationally intractable, even when people have preferences that depend only on who is allocated to nearby positions, and those preferences satisfy simple constraints that arise naturally in urban and other real-world systems. In contrast to this computational lower bound, we show that if people can be classified into a fixed number of (demographic) groups and the network satisfies certain realistic spatial conditions, then efficiently computable allocations can be obtained for many natural scenarios. Importantly, the achieved social welfare is either optimal or arbitrarily close to optimal for natural forms of preferences. Our methods provide a foundation for position allocation with peer effects, and guide the design of optimal allocation strategies when people can be classified into a fixed number of groups in which members share similar preferences.
View details for DOI 10.1093/pnasnexus/pgaf298
View details for PubMedID 41017787
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Differences in perceived social connection help explain SES-based gaps in well-being
SOCIAL NETWORKS
2025; 82: 55-64
View details for DOI 10.1016/j.socnet.2025.03.004
View details for Web of Science ID 001456274600001
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SELECTING THE MOST EFFECTIVE NUDGE: EVIDENCE FROM A LARGE-SCALE EXPERIMENT ON IMMUNIZATION
ECONOMETRICA
2025; 93 (4): 1183-1223
View details for DOI 10.3982/ECTA19739
View details for Web of Science ID 001547202800002
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A Network Formation Model Based on Subgraphs
REVIEW OF ECONOMIC STUDIES
2025
View details for DOI 10.1093/restud/rdaf013
View details for Web of Science ID 001457858200001
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Negotiations with Multidimensional Uncertainty and the Efficiency of Integrated Deals
Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics
2025; 3 (4)
View details for DOI 10.1086/733777
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Finding the Wise and the Wisdom in a Crowd: Estimating Underlying Qualities of Reviewers and Items
ECONOMIC JOURNAL
2024; 134 (663): 2712-2745
View details for DOI 10.1093/ej/ueae045
View details for Web of Science ID 001262326900001
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The Incentive Complementarity Between Formal and Informal Enforcement
JOURNAL OF THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION
2024; 22 (5): 2294-2328
View details for DOI 10.1093/jeea/jvae009
View details for Web of Science ID 001195182500001
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A Turing test of whether AI chatbots are behaviorally similar to humans
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
2024; 121 (9): e2313925121
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We administer a Turing test to AI chatbots. We examine how chatbots behave in a suite of classic behavioral games that are designed to elicit characteristics such as trust, fairness, risk-aversion, cooperation, etc., as well as how they respond to a traditional Big-5 psychological survey that measures personality traits. ChatGPT-4 exhibits behavioral and personality traits that are statistically indistinguishable from a random human from tens of thousands of human subjects from more than 50 countries. Chatbots also modify their behavior based on previous experience and contexts "as if" they were learning from the interactions and change their behavior in response to different framings of the same strategic situation. Their behaviors are often distinct from average and modal human behaviors, in which case they tend to behave on the more altruistic and cooperative end of the distribution. We estimate that they act as if they are maximizing an average of their own and partner's payoffs.
View details for DOI 10.1073/pnas.2313925121
View details for Web of Science ID 001208569300007
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Credit Freezes, Equilibrium Multiplicity, and Optimal Bailouts in Financial Networks
REVIEW OF FINANCIAL STUDIES
2024
View details for DOI 10.1093/rfs/hhad096
View details for Web of Science ID 001143310600001
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Electoral competition with costly policy changes: A dynamic perspective
JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC THEORY
2023; 214
View details for DOI 10.1016/j.jet.2023.105716
View details for Web of Science ID 001123697900001
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Social microclimates and well-being.
Emotion (Washington, D.C.)
2023
Abstract
Emotional well-being has a known relationship with a person's direct social ties, including friendships; but do ambient social and emotional features of the local community also play a role? This work takes advantage of university students' assignment to different local networks-or "social microclimates"-to probe this question. Using Least Absolute Shrinkage and Selection Operator (LASSO) regression, we quantify the collective impact of individual, social network, and microclimate factors on the emotional well-being of a cohort of first-year college students. Results indicate that well-being tracks individual factors but also myriad social and microclimate factors, reflecting one's peers and social surroundings. Students who belonged to emotionally stable and tight-knit microclimates (i.e., had emotionally stable friends or resided in densely connected residence halls) reported lower levels of psychological distress and higher levels of life satisfaction, even when controlling for factors such as personality and social network size. Although rarely discussed or acknowledged in the policies that create them, social microclimates are consequential to well-being, especially during life transitions. The effects of microclimate factors are small relative to some individual factors; however, they explain unique variance in well-being that is not directly captured by emotional stability or other individual factors. These findings are novel, but preliminary, and should be replicated in new samples and contexts. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).
View details for DOI 10.1037/emo0001277
View details for PubMedID 37824222
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Changes in Social Network Structure in Response to Exposure to Formal Credit Markets
REVIEW OF ECONOMIC STUDIES
2023
View details for DOI 10.1093/restud/rdad065
View details for Web of Science ID 001186724000001
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Centrality measures in networks
SOCIAL CHOICE AND WELFARE
2023
View details for DOI 10.1007/s00355-023-01456-4
View details for Web of Science ID 000976966300001
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Social Interactions and Legislative Activity
JOURNAL OF THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION
2022
View details for DOI 10.1093/jeea/jvac051
View details for Web of Science ID 000862226000001
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Learning through the grapevine and the impact of the breadth and depth of social networks.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
2022; 119 (34): e2205549119
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We study how communication platforms can improve social learning without censoring or fact-checking messages, when they have members who deliberately and/or inadvertently distort information. Message fidelity depends on social network depth (how many times information can be relayed) and breadth (the number of others with whom a typical user shares information). We characterize how the expected number of true minus false messages depends on breadth and depth of the network and the noise structure. Message fidelity can be improved by capping depth or, if that is not possible, limiting breadth, e.g., by capping the number of people to whom someone can forward a given message. Although caps reduce total communication, they increase the fraction of received messages that have traveled shorter distances and have had less opportunity to be altered, thereby increasing the signal-to-noise ratio.
View details for DOI 10.1073/pnas.2205549119
View details for PubMedID 35969767
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Social capital I: measurement and associations with economic mobility.
Nature
2022
Abstract
Social capital-the strength of an individual's social network and community-has been identified as a potential determinant of outcomes ranging from education to health1-8. However, efforts to understand what types of social capital matter for these outcomes have been hindered by a lack of social network data. Here, in the first of a pair of papers9, we use data on 21billion friendships from Facebook to study social capital. We measure and analyse three types of social capital by ZIP (postal) code in the United States: (1) connectedness between different types of people, such as those with low versus high socioeconomic status (SES); (2) social cohesion, such as the extent of cliques in friendship networks; and (3) civic engagement, such as rates of volunteering. These measures vary substantially across areas, but are not highly correlated with each other. We demonstrate the importance of distinguishing these forms of social capital by analysing their associations with economic mobility across areas. The share of high-SES friends among individuals with low SES-which we term economic connectedness-is among the strongest predictors of upward income mobility identified to date10,11. Other social capital measures are not strongly associated with economic mobility. If children with low-SES parents were to grow up in counties with economic connectedness comparable to that of the average child with high-SES parents, their incomes in adulthood would increase by 20% on average. Differences in economic connectedness can explain well-known relationships between upward income mobility and racial segregation, poverty rates, and inequality12-14. To support further research and policy interventions, we publicly release privacy-protected statistics on social capital by ZIP code at https://www.socialcapital.org .
View details for DOI 10.1038/s41586-022-04996-4
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Social capital II: determinants of economic connectedness.
Nature
2022
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Low levels of social interaction across class lines have generated widespread concern1-4 and are associated with worse outcomes, such as lower rates of upward income mobility4-7. Here we analyse the determinants of cross-class interaction using data from Facebook, building on the analysis in our companion paper7. We show that about half of the social disconnection across socioeconomic lines-measured as the difference in the share of high-socioeconomic status (SES)friends between people with low and high SES-is explained by differences in exposure to people with high SES in groups such as schools and religious organizations. The other half is explained by friending bias-the tendency for people with low SES to befriend people with high SES at lower rates even conditional on exposure. Friending bias is shaped by the structure of the groups in which people interact. For example, friending bias is higher in larger and more diverse groups and lower in religious organizations than in schools and workplaces. Distinguishing exposure from friending bias is helpful for identifying interventions to increase cross-SES friendships (economic connectedness). Using fluctuations in the share of students with high SES across high school cohorts, we show that increases in high-SESexposure leadlow-SES people to form more friendships with high-SES peoplein schools that exhibit low levels of friending bias. Thus, socioeconomic integration can increase economic connectedness in communities in which friending bias is low. By contrast, when friending bias is high, increasing cross-SES interactions among existing members may be necessary to increase economic connectedness. To support such efforts, we release privacy-protected statistics on economic connectedness, exposure and friending bias for each ZIP(postal) code, high school and college in the United States at https://www.socialcapital.org .
View details for DOI 10.1038/s41586-022-04997-3
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COMMENT ON JACKSON AND SONNENSCHEIN (2007) "OVERCOMING INCENTIVE CONSTRAINTS BY LINKING DECISIONS"
ECONOMETRICA
2022; 90 (4): O3-O7
View details for DOI 10.3982/ECTA20516
View details for Web of Science ID 000831314400004
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Interacting regional policies in containing a disease.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
2021; 118 (19)
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Regional quarantine policies, in which a portion of a population surrounding infections is locked down, are an important tool to contain disease. However, jurisdictional governments-such as cities, counties, states, and countries-act with minimal coordination across borders. We show that a regional quarantine policy's effectiveness depends on whether 1) the network of interactions satisfies a growth balance condition, 2) infections have a short delay in detection, and 3) the government has control over and knowledge of the necessary parts of the network (no leakage of behaviors). As these conditions generally fail to be satisfied, especially when interactions cross borders, we show that substantial improvements are possible if governments are outward looking and proactive: triggering quarantines in reaction to neighbors' infection rates, in some cases even before infections are detected internally. We also show that even a few lax governments-those that wait for nontrivial internal infection rates before quarantining-impose substantial costs on the whole system. Our results illustrate the importance of understanding contagion across policy borders and offer a starting point in designing proactive policies for decentralized jurisdictions.
View details for DOI 10.1073/pnas.2021520118
View details for PubMedID 33906950
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Belief polarization in a complex world: A learning theory perspective
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
2021; 118 (19)
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We present two models of how people form beliefs that are based on machine learning theory. We illustrate how these models give insight into observed human phenomena by showing how polarized beliefs can arise even when people are exposed to almost identical sources of information. In our first model, people form beliefs that are deterministic functions that best fit their past data (training sets). In that model, their inability to form probabilistic beliefs can lead people to have opposing views even if their data are drawn from distributions that only slightly disagree. In the second model, people pay a cost that is increasing in the complexity of the function that represents their beliefs. In this second model, even with large training sets drawn from exactly the same distribution, agents can disagree substantially because they simplify the world along different dimensions. We discuss what these models of belief formation suggest for improving people's accuracy and agreement.
View details for DOI 10.1073/pnas.2010144118
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Systemic Risk in Financial Networks: A Survey
ANNUAL REVIEW OF ECONOMICS, VOL 13, 2021
edited by Aghion, P., Rey, H.
2021; 13: 171-202
View details for DOI 10.1146/annurev-economics-083120-111540
View details for Web of Science ID 000685106100008
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Why understanding multiplex social network structuring processes will help us better understand the evolution of human behavior
EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY
2020; 29 (3): 102-107
Abstract
Social scientists have long appreciated that relationships between individuals cannot be described from observing a single domain, and that the structure across domains of interaction can have important effects on outcomes of interest (e.g., cooperation; Durkheim, 1893). One debate explicitly about this surrounds food sharing. Some argue that failing to find reciprocal food sharing means that some process other than reciprocity must be occurring, whereas others argue for models that allow reciprocity to span domains in the form of trade (Kaplan and Hill, 1985.). Multilayer networks, high-dimensional networks that allow us to consider multiple sets of relationships at the same time, are ubiquitous and have consequences, so processes giving rise to them are important social phenomena. The analysis of multi-dimensional social networks has recently garnered the attention of the network science community (Kivelä et al., 2014). Recent models of these processes show how ignoring layer interdependencies can lead one to miss why a layer formed the way it did, and/or draw erroneous conclusions (Górski et al., 2018). Understanding the structuring processes that underlie multiplex networks will help understand increasingly rich data sets, giving more accurate and complete pictures of social interactions.
View details for DOI 10.1002/evan.21850
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A typology of social capital and associated network measures
SOCIAL CHOICE AND WELFARE
2020; 54 (2-3): 311-336
View details for DOI 10.1007/s00355-019-01189-3
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A Model of Protests, Revolution, and Information
QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF POLITICAL SCIENCE
2020; 15 (3): 297-335
View details for DOI 10.1561/100.00019002_app
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Using Gossips to Spread Information: Theory and Evidence from Two Randomized Controlled Trials
REVIEW OF ECONOMIC STUDIES
2019; 86 (6): 2453–90
View details for DOI 10.1093/restud/rdz008
View details for Web of Science ID 000498169800005
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Updating Beliefs when Evidence is Open to Interpretation: Implications for Bias and Polarization
JOURNAL OF THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION
2019; 17 (5): 1470-1501
View details for DOI 10.1093/jeea/jvy025
View details for Web of Science ID 000491240800002
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Machine behaviour
NATURE
2019; 568 (7753): 477-486
Abstract
Machines powered by artificial intelligence increasingly mediate our social, cultural, economic and political interactions. Understanding the behaviour of artificial intelligence systems is essential to our ability to control their actions, reap their benefits and minimize their harms. Here we argue that this necessitates a broad scientific research agenda to study machine behaviour that incorporates and expands upon the discipline of computer science and includes insights from across the sciences. We first outline a set of questions that are fundamental to this emerging field and then explore the technical, legal and institutional constraints on the study of machine behaviour.
View details for DOI 10.1038/s41586-019-1138-y
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The Friendship Paradox and Systematic Biases in Perceptions and Social Norms
JOURNAL OF POLITICAL ECONOMY
2019; 127 (2): 777-818
View details for DOI 10.1086/701031
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- The Human Network: How your social position determines your power, beliefs, and behaviors Vintage. 2019
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Tragedy revisited.
Science (New York, N.Y.)
2018; 362 (6420): 1236-1241
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Diffusion in networks and the virtue of burstiness.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
2018
Abstract
Whether an idea, information, or infection diffuses throughout a society depends not only on the structure of the network of interactions, but also on the timing of those interactions. People are not always available to interact with others, and people differ in the timing of when they are active. Some people are active for long periods and then inactive for long periods, while others switch more frequently from being active to inactive and back. We show that maximizing diffusion in classic contagion processes requires heterogeneous activity patterns across agents. In particular, maximizing diffusion comes from mixing two extreme types of people: those who are stationary for long periods of time, changing from active to inactive or back only infrequently, and others who alternate frequently between being active and inactive.
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Pricing and referrals in diffusion on networks
GAMES AND ECONOMIC BEHAVIOR
2017; 104: 568–94
View details for DOI 10.1016/j.geb.2017.05.011
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SOCIAL NORMS AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF LAWS
JOURNAL OF THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION
2017; 15 (2): 245-295
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The Economic Consequences of Social-Network Structure
JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC LITERATURE
2017; 55 (1): 49–95
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Empathy and well-being correlate with centrality in different social networks.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
2017; 114 (37): 9843–47
Abstract
Individuals benefit from occupying central roles in social networks, but little is known about the psychological traits that predict centrality. Across four college freshman dorms (n = 193), we characterized individuals with a battery of personality questionnaires and also asked them to nominate dorm members with whom they had different types of relationships. This revealed several social networks within dorm communities with differing characteristics. In particular, additional data showed that networks varied in the degree to which nominations depend on (i) trust and (ii) shared fun and excitement. Networks more dependent upon trust were further defined by fewer connections than those more dependent on fun. Crucially, network and personality features interacted to predict individuals' centrality: people high in well-being (i.e., life satisfaction and positive emotion) were central to networks characterized by fun, whereas people high in empathy were central to networks characterized by trust. Together, these findings provide network-based corroboration of psychological evidence that well-being is socially attractive, whereas empathy supports close relationships. More broadly, these data highlight how an individual's personality relates to the roles that they play in sustaining their community.
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Diffusion in Networks and the Unexpected Virtue of Burstiness
ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY. 2017: 543
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Inducing Leaders to Take Risky Decisions: Dismissal, Tenure, and Term Limits
AMERICAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL-MICROECONOMICS
2016; 8 (3): 1-38
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History, Expectations, and Leadership in the Evolution of Social Norms
REVIEW OF ECONOMIC STUDIES
2015; 82 (2): 423-456
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THE ECONOMETRIC SOCIETY ANNUAL REPORTS REPORT OF THE EDITORS 2013-2014
ECONOMETRICA
2015; 83 (1): 403-406
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Present Bias and Collective Dynamic Choice in the Lab
AMERICAN ECONOMIC REVIEW
2014; 104 (12): 4184-4204
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Networks in the Understanding of Economic Behaviors
JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVES
2014; 28 (4): 3-22
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Financial Networks and Contagion
AMERICAN ECONOMIC REVIEW
2014; 104 (10): 3115-3153
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Culture-dependent strategies in coordination games.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
2014; 111: 10889-10896
Abstract
We examine different populations' play in coordination games in online experiments with over 1,000 study participants. Study participants played a two-player coordination game that had multiple equilibria: two equilibria with highly asymmetric payoffs and another equilibrium with symmetric payoffs but a slightly lower total payoff. Study participants were predominantly from India and the United States. Study participants residing in India played the strategies leading to asymmetric payoffs significantly more frequently than study participants residing in the United States who showed a greater play of the strategy leading to the symmetric payoffs. In addition, when prompted to play asymmetrically, the population from India responded even more significantly than those from the United States. Overall, study participants' predictions of how others would play were more accurate when the other player was from their own populations, and they coordinated significantly more frequently and earned significantly higher payoffs when matched with other study participants from their own population than when matched across populations.
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The Diffusion of Microfinance
SCIENCE
2013; 341 (6144): 363-?
Abstract
To study the impact of the choice of injection points in the diffusion of a new product in a society, we developed a model of word-of-mouth diffusion and then applied it to data on social networks and participation in a newly available microfinance loan program in 43 Indian villages. Our model allows us to distinguish information passing among neighbors from direct influence of neighbors' participation decisions, as well as information passing by participants versus nonparticipants. The model estimates suggest that participants are seven times as likely to pass information compared to informed nonparticipants, but information passed by nonparticipants still accounts for roughly one-third of eventual participation. An informed household is not more likely to participate if its informed friends participate. We then propose two new measures of how effective a given household would be as an injection point. We show that the centrality of the injection points according to these measures constitutes a strong and significant predictor of eventual village-level participation.
View details for DOI 10.1126/science.1236498
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The diffusion of microfinance.
Science
2013; 341 (6144): 1236498-?
Abstract
To study the impact of the choice of injection points in the diffusion of a new product in a society, we developed a model of word-of-mouth diffusion and then applied it to data on social networks and participation in a newly available microfinance loan program in 43 Indian villages. Our model allows us to distinguish information passing among neighbors from direct influence of neighbors' participation decisions, as well as information passing by participants versus nonparticipants. The model estimates suggest that participants are seven times as likely to pass information compared to informed nonparticipants, but information passed by nonparticipants still accounts for roughly one-third of eventual participation. An informed household is not more likely to participate if its informed friends participate. We then propose two new measures of how effective a given household would be as an injection point. We show that the centrality of the injection points according to these measures constitutes a strong and significant predictor of eventual village-level participation.
View details for DOI 10.1126/science.1236498
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Deliberation, disclosure of information, and voting
JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC THEORY
2013; 148 (1): 2-30
View details for DOI 10.1016/j.jet.2012.12.002
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Unraveling Peers and Peer Effects: Comments on Goldsmith-Pinkham and lmbens' "Social Networks and the Identification of Peer Effects"
Journal of Business and Economic Statistics
2013; 31 (3): 270-273
View details for DOI 10.1080/07350015.2013.794095
- Economic Analyses of Social Networks edited by Jackson, M., Zenou, Y. Edward Elgar Publishing. 2013
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Economic Engineering and the Design of Matching Markets: The Contributions of Alvin E. Roth
SCANDINAVIAN JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS
2013; 115 (3): 619-639
View details for DOI 10.1111/sjoe.12026
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Homophily and long-run integration in social networks
JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC THEORY
2012; 147 (5): 1754-1786
View details for DOI 10.1016/j.jet.2012.05.007
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Social Capital and Social Quilts: Network Patterns of Favor Exchange
AMERICAN ECONOMIC REVIEW
2012; 102 (5): 1857-1897
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How Homophily Affects the Speed of Learning and Best-Response Dynamics
QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS
2012; 127 (3): 1287-1338
View details for DOI 10.1093/qje/qjs021
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Epsilon-equilibria of perturbed games
GAMES AND ECONOMIC BEHAVIOR
2012; 75 (1): 198-216
View details for DOI 10.1016/j.geb.2011.09.007
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Does Homophily Predict Consensus Times? Testing a Model of Network Structure via a Dynamic Process
REVIEW OF NETWORK ECONOMICS
2012; 11 (3)
View details for DOI 10.1515/1446-9022.1367
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- Network Structure and the Speed of Learning: Measuring Homophily Based on its Consequences Annals of Economics and Statistics 2012; 107/108
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Introduction to the Special Issues in Honor of Salvador BarberA 's 65th birthday
SERIES-JOURNAL OF THE SPANISH ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION
2011; 2 (4): 423-430
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- The Reasons for Warss - an Updated Survey Handbook on the Political Economy of War edited by Coyne, C., Mathers, R. Elgar Publishing. 2011
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The reasons for wars: an updated survey
HANDBOOK ON THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF WAR
edited by Coyne, C. J., Mathers, R. L.
2011: 34-57
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- An Overview of Social Networks and Economic Applications Handbook of Social Economics edited by Benhabib, J., Bisin, A., Jackson, M. North Holland. 2011
- Handbook of Social Economics edited by Jackson, M., Benhabib, J., Bisin, A. North Holland. 2011
- Diffusion, Strategic Interaction, and Social Structure Handbook of Social Economics edited by Benhabib, J., Bisin, A., Jackson, M. North Holland. 2011
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Social games: Matching and the play of finitely repeated games
GAMES AND ECONOMIC BEHAVIOR
2010; 70 (1): 170-191
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Introduction to the special issue in honor of Ehud Kalai
GAMES AND ECONOMIC BEHAVIOR
2010; 70 (1): 1-3
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Using selection bias to explain the observed structure of Internet diffusions
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
2010; 107 (24): 10833-10836
Abstract
Recently, large datasets stored on the Internet have enabled the analysis of processes, such as large-scale diffusions of information, at new levels of detail. In a recent study, Liben-Nowell and Kleinberg [(2008) Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 105:4633-4638] observed that the flow of information on the Internet exhibits surprising patterns whereby a chain letter reaches its typical recipient through long paths of hundreds of intermediaries. We show that a basic Galton-Watson epidemic model combined with the selection bias of observing only large diffusions suffices to explain these patterns. Thus, selection biases of which data we observe can radically change the estimation of classical diffusion processes.
View details for DOI 10.1073/pnas.1000814107
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Identifying the roles of race-based choice and chance in high school friendship network formation
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
2010; 107 (11): 4857-4861
Abstract
Homophily, the tendency of people to associate with others similar to themselves, is observed in many social networks, ranging from friendships to marriages to business relationships, and is based on a variety of characteristics, including race, age, gender, religion, and education. We present a technique for distinguishing two primary sources of homophily: biases in the preferences of individuals over the types of their friends and biases in the chances that people meet individuals of other types. We use this technique to analyze racial patterns in friendship networks in a set of American high schools from the Add Health dataset. Biases in preferences and biases in meeting rates are both highly significant in these data, and both types of biases differ significantly across races. Asians and Blacks are biased toward interacting with their own race at rates >7 times higher than Whites, whereas Hispanics exhibit an intermediate bias in meeting opportunities. Asians exhibit the least preference bias, valuing friendships with other types 90% as much as friendships with Asians, whereas Blacks and Hispanics value friendships with other types 55% and 65% as much as same-type friendships, respectively, and Whites fall in between, valuing other-type friendships 75% as much as friendships with Whites. Meetings are significantly more biased in large schools (>1,000 students) than in small schools (<1,000 students), and biases in preferences exhibit some significant variation with the median household income levels in the counties surrounding the schools.
View details for DOI 10.1073/pnas.0911793107
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PEER PRESSURE
JOURNAL OF THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION
2010; 8 (1): 62-89
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SOCIAL NETWORKS AND PEER EFFECTS: AN INTRODUCTION
JOURNAL OF THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION
2010; 8 (1): 1-6
View details for DOI 10.1162/jeea.2010.8.1.1
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Naive Learning in Social Networks and the Wisdom of Crowds
AMERICAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL-MICROECONOMICS
2010; 2 (1): 112-149
View details for DOI 10.1257/mic.2.1.112
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Network Games
REVIEW OF ECONOMIC STUDIES
2010; 77 (1): 218-244
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An Economic Model of Friendship: Homophily, Minorities, and Segregation
62nd European Meeting of the Econometric-Society
WILEY-BLACKWELL. 2009: 1003–45
View details for DOI 10.3982/ECTA7528
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Non-existence of equilibrium in Vickrey, second-price, and English auctions
REVIEW OF ECONOMIC DESIGN
2009; 13 (1-2): 137-145
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The role of responsibility in strategic risk-taking
JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC BEHAVIOR & ORGANIZATION
2009; 69 (3): 241-247
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Commentary "Do We Inherit Our Positions in Life? Genetic Influences on Social Network Characteristics"
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2009: 1687–1688
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Like Father, Like Son: Social Network Externalities and Parent-Child Correlation in Behavior
AMERICAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL-MICROECONOMICS
2009; 1 (1): 124-150
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Identifying Community Structures from Network Data via Maximum Likelihood Methods
B E JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL ECONOMICS
2009; 9 (1)
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- Social Networks in Economics The Annual Review of Economics 2009; 1: 489-513
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Networks and Economic Behavior
ANNUAL REVIEW OF ECONOMICS
2009; 1: 489-511
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Vote Buying: Legislatures and Lobbying
QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF POLITICAL SCIENCE
2009; 4 (2): 103-128
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Strategic Militarization, Deterrence and Wars
QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF POLITICAL SCIENCE
2009; 4 (4): 279-313
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Vote buying: General elections
JOURNAL OF POLITICAL ECONOMY
2008; 116 (2): 351-380
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A categorical model of cognition and biased decision making
B E JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL ECONOMICS
2008; 8 (1)
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Social and Economic Networks
SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC NETWORKS
2008: 1-504
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Equilibrium Existence in Bipartite Social Games: A Generalization of Stable Matchings
ECONOMICS BULLETIN
2008; 3
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- Equilibrium Existence in Bipartite Social Games: A Generalization of Stable Matchings Economics Bulletin 2008; 3 (12): 1-8
- A Volume in Honor of Hugo F. Sonnenschein: Foundations in Microeconomic Theory edited by Jackson, M., McLennan, A. Springer Heidelberg. 2008
- Social and Economic Networks Princeton University Press. 2008
- Network Formation The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics and the Law MacMillian Press. 2008
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Average Distance, Diameter, and Clustering in Social Networks with Homophily
4th International Workshop on Internet and Network Economics
SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN. 2008: 4–11
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Political bias and war
AMERICAN ECONOMIC REVIEW
2007; 97 (4): 1353-1373
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Group play in games and the role of consent in network formation
JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC THEORY
2007; 136 (1): 417-445
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Meeting strangers and friends of friends: How random are social networks?
AMERICAN ECONOMIC REVIEW
2007; 97 (3): 890-915
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Diffusion of behavior and equilibrium properties in network games
119th Annual Meeting of the American-Economic-Association
AMER ECONOMIC ASSOC. 2007: 92–98
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The formation of networks with transfers among players
JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC THEORY
2007; 133 (1): 83-110
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Overcoming incentive constraints by linking decisions
ECONOMETRICA
2007; 75 (1): 241-257
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- The Study of Social Networks in Economics The Missing Links: Formation and Decay of Economic Networks edited by Rauch, J. E. Russell Sage Foundation. 2007
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Networks in labor markets: Wage and employment dynamics and inequality
JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC THEORY
2007; 132 (1): 27-46
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- Envy-Freeness and Implementation in Large Economies The Review of Economic Design 2007; 11 (3): 185-198
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Nomination processes and policy outcomes
QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF POLITICAL SCIENCE
2007; 2 (1): 67-94
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Relating network structure to diffusion properties through stochastic dominance
B E JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL ECONOMICS
2007; 7 (1)
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On the informational inefficiency of discriminatory price auctions
JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC THEORY
2007; 132 (1): 507-517
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The relevance of a choice of auction format in a competitive environment
REVIEW OF ECONOMIC STUDIES
2006; 73 (4): 961-981
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Definitions of equilibrium in network formation games
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GAME THEORY
2006; 34 (3): 305-318
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On the weights of nations: Assigning voting weights in a heterogeneous union
JOURNAL OF POLITICAL ECONOMY
2006; 114 (2): 317-339
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On the weights of nations: Assigning voting weights in a heterogeneous union
JOURNAL OF POLITICAL ECONOMY
2006; 114 (2): 317-339
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- Social Networks and the Diffusion of Behavior Yale Economic Review 2006; 3 (2): 42-47
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The economics of social networks
edited by Blundell, R., Newey, W. K., Persson, T.
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS. 2006: 1-56
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- On the Weight of Nations: Assigning Voting Power to Heterogeneous Voters Journal of Political Economy 2006; 114 (2): 317-339
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The economics of social networks
9th World Congress of the Econometric-Society
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS. 2006: 1–56
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Strongly stable networks
GAMES AND ECONOMIC BEHAVIOR
2005; 51 (2): 420-444
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The economics of small worlds
19th Annual Congress of the European-Economic-Association
WILEY-BLACKWELL. 2005: 617–27
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Endogenous games and mechanisms: Side payments among players
REVIEW OF ECONOMIC STUDIES
2005; 72 (2): 543-566
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The economics of small worlds
M I T PRESS. 2005: 617-627
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Endogenous games and mechanisms: Side payments among players
REVIEW OF ECONOMIC STUDIES
2005; 72 (2): 543-566
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Allocation rules for network games
GAMES AND ECONOMIC BEHAVIOR
2005; 51 (1): 128-154
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- Existence of Equilibria in Single and Double Auctions Econometrica 2005; 73 (1): 93-139
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Existence of equilibrium in single and double private value auctions
ECONOMETRICA
2005; 73 (1): 93-139
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The Banks Set and the Uncovered Set in Budget Allocation Problems
SOCIAL CHOICE AND STRATEGIC DECISIONS: ESSAYS IN HONOR OF JEFFREY S. BANKS
edited by AustenSmith, D., Duggan, J.
2005: 163-199
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A Survey of Network Formation Models: Stability and Efficiency
GROUP FORMATION IN ECONOMICS: NETWORKS, CLUBS, AND COALITIONS
edited by Demange, G., Wooders, M.
2005: 11-57
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- A Survey of Models of Network Formation: Stability and Efficiency Group Formation in Economics; Networks, Clubs and Coalitions edited by Demange, G., Wooders, M. Cambridge University Press. 2005
- Diffusion on Social Networks Économie Publique 2005; 16 (1): 3-16
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Existence of equilibrium in single and double private value auctions
ECONOMETRICA
2005; 73 (1): 93-139
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- The Banks Set and the Uncovered Set in Budget Allocation Problems Social Choice and Strategic Decisions: Essays in Honor of Jeffrey S. Banks edited by Austen-Smith, D., Duggan, J. Springer Verlag. 2005
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Communication and equilibrium in discontinuous games of incomplete information (vol 70, pg 1711, 2002)
ECONOMETRICA
2004; 72 (6): 1927-1929
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Choosing how to choose: Self-stable majority rules and constitutions
QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS
2004; 119 (3): 1011-1048
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Choosing how to choose: Self-stable majority rules and constitutions
QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS
2004; 119 (3): 1011-1048
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Equilibrium agenda formation
SOCIAL CHOICE AND WELFARE
2004; 23 (1): 21-57
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The effects of social networks on employment and inequality
AMERICAN ECONOMIC REVIEW
2004; 94 (3): 426-454
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The effects of social networks on employment and inequality
AMERICAN ECONOMIC REVIEW
2004; 94 (3): 426-454
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The relationship between the allocation of goods and a seller's revenue
Workshop on Economic Theory
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA. 2004: 371–92
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The strategy-proof provision of public goods under congestion and crowding preferences
JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC THEORY
2004; 115 (2): 278-308
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Voluntary implementation (vol 98, pg 1, 2001)
JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC THEORY
2003; 110 (1): 204-205
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La Crema: A case study of mutual fire insurance
JOURNAL OF POLITICAL ECONOMY
2003; 111 (2): 425-458
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<i>La Crema</i>:: A case study of mutual fire insurance
JOURNAL OF POLITICAL ECONOMY
2003; 111 (2): 425-458
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- The Stability and Efficiency of Economic and Social Networks Advances in Economic Design edited by Sertel, M., Koray, S. Springer-Verlag. 2003
- Strategic Stability and Efficiency in Directed Communication Networks Networks and Groups: Models of Strategic Formation edited by Jackson, M., Dutta, B. Springer-Verlag. 2003
- Mechanism Theory in Optimization and Operation Research Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems edited by Derigs, U. EOLSS Publishers. 2003
- A Strategic Model of Social and Economic Networks Networks and Groups: Models of Strategic Formation edited by Jackson, M., Dutta, B. Springer-Verlag. 2003
- On the Formation of Networks and Groups Networks and Groups: Models of Strategic Formation edited by Dutta, B., Jackson, M. Springer-Verlag. 2003
- The Stability and Efficiency of Economic and Social Networks Networks and Groups: Models of Strategic Formation edited by Dutta, B., Jackson, M. Springer-Verlag. 2003
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On the formation of interaction networks in social coordination games
GAMES AND ECONOMIC BEHAVIOR
2002; 41 (2): 265-291
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On the formation of interaction networks in social coordination games
GAMES AND ECONOMIC BEHAVIOR
2002; 41 (2): 265-291
View details for DOI 10.1016/S0899-8256(02)00504-3
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The evolution of social and economic networks
JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC THEORY
2002; 106 (2): 265-295
View details for DOI 10.1006/jeth.2001.2903
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Communication and equilibrium in discontinuous games of incomplete information
ECONOMETRICA
2002; 70 (5): 1711-1740
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Communication and equilibrium in discontinuous games of incomplete information
ECONOMETRICA
2002; 70 (5): 1711-1740
View details for DOI 10.1111/1468-0262.00351
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Asymptotic revenue equivalence in auctions
JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC THEORY
2002; 106 (1): 161-176
View details for DOI 10.1006/jeth.2001.2870
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Voting by successive elimination and strategic candidacy
JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC THEORY
2002; 103 (1): 190-218
View details for DOI 10.1006/jeth.2001.2862
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Coalition and party formation in a legislative voting game
JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC THEORY
2002; 103 (1): 49-87
View details for DOI 10.1006/jeth.2000.2688
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Coalition and party formation in a legislative voting game
JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC THEORY
2002; 103 (1): 49-87
View details for DOI 10.1006/jeth.2002.2688
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The stability of hedonic coalition structures
GAMES AND ECONOMIC BEHAVIOR
2002; 38 (2): 201-230
View details for DOI 10.1006/game.2001.0877
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A crash course in implementation theory
SOCIAL CHOICE AND WELFARE
2001; 18 (4): 655-708
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A crash course in implementation theory
SOCIAL CHOICE AND WELFARE
2001; 18 (4): 655-708
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Strategic candidacy and voting procedures
ECONOMETRICA
2001; 69 (4): 1013-1037
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Strategic candidacy and voting procedures
ECONOMETRICA
2001; 69 (4): 1013-1037
View details for DOI 10.1111/1468-0262.00228
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Voluntary implementation
JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC THEORY
2001; 98 (1): 1-25
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- The Existence of Pairwise Stable Networks Seoul Journal of Economics 2001; 14 (3): 299-321
- Strategic Stability and Efficiency in Directed Communication Networks Review of Economic Design 2000; 5 (3): 251-272
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Reputation versus social learning
JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC THEORY
1999; 88 (1): 40-59
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The optimal design of a market
JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC THEORY
1999; 88 (1): 1-39
View details for DOI 10.1006/jeth.1999.2536
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Reputation versus social learning
JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC THEORY
1999; 88 (1): 40-59
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Bayesian representation of stochastic processes under learning: De Finetti revisited
ECONOMETRICA
1999; 67 (4): 875-893
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Bayesian representation of stochastic processes under learning: De Finetti revisited
ECONOMETRICA
1999; 67 (4): 875-893
View details for DOI 10.1111/1468-0262.00055
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Asymmetric information in a competitive market game: Reexamining the implications of rational expectations
ECONOMIC THEORY
1999; 13 (3): 603-628
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Asymmetric information in a competitive market game: Reexamining the implications of rational expectations
ECONOMIC THEORY
1999; 13 (3): 603-628
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- Bayesian Implementation Recent Developments in Game Theory edited by Maskin, E. Edward Elgar Publishers. 1999
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Efficiency and voluntary implementation in markets with repeated pairwise bargaining
ECONOMETRICA
1998; 66 (6): 1353-1388
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Efficiency and voluntary implementation in markets with repeated pairwise bargaining
ECONOMETRICA
1998; 66 (6): 1353-1388
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- Bid-Ask Spreads with Indirect Competition Among Specialists Journal of Financial Markets 1998; 1 (1): 89-119
- Social Learning in Recurring Games Social Organization and Mechanism Design edited by d'Aspremont, C. Francqui Foundation. 1998
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Approximately competitive equilibria in large finite economies
JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC THEORY
1997; 77 (2): 354-376
View details for DOI 10.1006/jeth.1997.2327
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Social learning in recurring games
GAMES AND ECONOMIC BEHAVIOR
1997; 21 (1-2): 102-134
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Social learning in recurring games
GAMES AND ECONOMIC BEHAVIOR
1997; 21 (1-2): 102-134
View details for DOI 10.1006/game.1997.0583
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- Approximate Competitive Equilibria in Large Economies Journal of Economic Theory 1997; 77 (2): 354-376
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Strategy-proof allotment rules
GAMES AND ECONOMIC BEHAVIOR
1997; 18 (1): 1-21
View details for DOI 10.1006/game.1997.0511
View details for Web of Science ID A1997WG31900001
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Recurring bullies, trembling and learning
edited by Albers, W., Guth, W., Hammerstein, P., Moldovanu, B., vanDamme, E.
SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN. 1997: 171-184
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Strategy-proof allotment rules
GAMES AND ECONOMIC BEHAVIOR
1997; 18 (1): 1-21
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Recurring bullies, trembling and learning
Jerusalem Conference on Understanding Strategic Interaction
SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN. 1997: 171–184
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A strategic model of social and economic networks
JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC THEORY
1996; 71 (1): 44-74
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A strategic model of social and economic networks
JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC THEORY
1996; 71 (1): 44-74
View details for DOI 10.1006/jeth.1996.0108
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A characterization of game-theoretic solutions which lead to impossibility theorems
REVIEW OF ECONOMIC STUDIES
1996; 63 (1): 23-38
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A characterization of game-theoretic solutions which lead to impossibility theorems
REVIEW OF ECONOMIC STUDIES
1996; 63 (1): 23-38
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- Characterizations of Game Theoretic Solution Concepts which Lead to Impossibility Theorems Review of Economic Studies 1996; 63 (1): 23-28
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STRATEGY-PROOF EXCHANGE
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1995; 63 (1): 51-87
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STRATEGY-PROOF EXCHANGE
ECONOMETRICA
1995; 63 (1): 51-87
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A PROOF OF THE EXISTENCE OF SPECULATIVE EQUILIBRIA
JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC THEORY
1994; 64 (1): 221-233
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A PROOF OF THE EXISTENCE OF SPECULATIVE EQUILIBRIA
JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC THEORY
1994; 64 (1): 221-233
View details for DOI 10.1006/jeth.1994.1063
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A CHARACTERIZATION OF STRATEGY-PROOF SOCIAL CHOICE FUNCTIONS FOR ECONOMIES WITH PURE PUBLIC-GOODS
SOCIAL CHOICE AND WELFARE
1994; 11 (3): 241-252
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ON THE RELATION BETWEEN NASH EQUILIBRIA AND UNDOMINATED STRATEGIES FOR 2 PERSON, FINITE GAMES
ECONOMICS LETTERS
1994; 45 (3): 315-318
View details for DOI 10.1016/0165-1765(94)90030-2
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A CHARACTERIZATION OF STRATEGY-PROOF SOCIAL CHOICE FUNCTIONS FOR ECONOMIES WITH PURE PUBLIC-GOODS
SOCIAL CHOICE AND WELFARE
1994; 11 (3): 241-252
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ON THE RELATION BETWEEN NASH EQUILIBRIA AND UNDOMINATED STRATEGIES FOR 2 PERSON, FINITE GAMES
ECONOMICS LETTERS
1994; 45 (3): 315-318
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UNDOMINATED NASH IMPLEMENTATION IN BOUNDED MECHANISMS
GAMES AND ECONOMIC BEHAVIOR
1994; 6 (3): 474-501
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UNDOMINATED NASH IMPLEMENTATION IN BOUNDED MECHANISMS
GAMES AND ECONOMIC BEHAVIOR
1994; 6 (3): 474-501
View details for DOI 10.1006/game.1994.1028
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INCENTIVE COMPATIBILITY AND COMPETITIVE ALLOCATIONS
ECONOMICS LETTERS
1992; 40 (3): 299-302
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INCENTIVE COMPATIBILITY AND COMPETITIVE ALLOCATIONS
ECONOMICS LETTERS
1992; 40 (3): 299-302
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IMPLEMENTATION IN UNDOMINATED STRATEGIES - A LOOK AT BOUNDED MECHANISMS
REVIEW OF ECONOMIC STUDIES
1992; 59 (4): 757-775
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IMPLEMENTATION IN UNDOMINATED STRATEGIES - A LOOK AT BOUNDED MECHANISMS
REVIEW OF ECONOMIC STUDIES
1992; 59 (4): 757-775
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ON 2-PERSON NASH IMPLEMENTABLE CHOICE FUNCTIONS
SOCIAL CHOICE AND WELFARE
1992; 9 (3): 263-264
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ON 2-PERSON NASH IMPLEMENTABLE CHOICE FUNCTIONS
SOCIAL CHOICE AND WELFARE
1992; 9 (3): 263-264
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IMPLEMENTING A PUBLIC PROJECT AND DISTRIBUTING ITS COST
JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC THEORY
1992; 57 (1): 125-140
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IMPLEMENTING A PUBLIC PROJECT AND DISTRIBUTING ITS COST
JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC THEORY
1992; 57 (1): 125-140
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SPECULATION AND PRICE FLUCTUATIONS WITH PRIVATE, EXTRINSIC SIGNALS
JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC THEORY
1991; 55 (2): 274-295
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SPECULATION AND PRICE FLUCTUATIONS WITH PRIVATE, EXTRINSIC SIGNALS
JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC THEORY
1991; 55 (2): 274-295
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BAYESIAN IMPLEMENTATION
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1991; 59 (2): 461-477
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BAYESIAN IMPLEMENTATION
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1991; 59 (2): 461-477
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- Stock, Options, and Deferred Compensation Research in Labor Economics 1991; 12: 41-62
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EQUILIBRIUM, PRICE FORMATION, AND THE VALUE OF PRIVATE INFORMATION
REVIEW OF FINANCIAL STUDIES
1991; 4 (1): 1-16
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EQUILIBRIUM, PRICE FORMATION, AND THE VALUE OF PRIVATE INFORMATION
REVIEW OF FINANCIAL STUDIES
1991; 4 (1): 1-16
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OPTIMAL HEDGING AND EQUILIBRIUM IN A DYNAMIC FUTURES MARKET
JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC DYNAMICS & CONTROL
1990; 14 (1): 21-33
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OPTIMAL HEDGING AND EQUILIBRIUM IN A DYNAMIC FUTURES MARKET
JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC DYNAMICS & CONTROL
1990; 14 (1): 21-33
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Optimal Innovation of Futures Contracts
REVIEW OF FINANCIAL STUDIES
1989; 2 (3): 275-296
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MAXIMIN, LEXIMIN, AND THE PROTECTIVE CRITERION - CHARACTERIZATIONS AND COMPARISONS
JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC THEORY
1988; 46 (1): 34-44
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MAXIMIN, LEXIMIN, AND THE PROTECTIVE CRITERION - CHARACTERIZATIONS AND COMPARISONS
JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC THEORY
1988; 46 (1): 34-44
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INTEGRATION OF DEMAND AND CONTINUOUS UTILITY-FUNCTIONS
JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC THEORY
1986; 38 (2): 298-312
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INTEGRATION OF DEMAND AND CONTINUOUS UTILITY-FUNCTIONS
JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC THEORY
1986; 38 (2): 298-312
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CONTINUOUS UTILITY-FUNCTIONS IN CONSUMER THEORY - A SET OF DUALITY THEOREMS
JOURNAL OF MATHEMATICAL ECONOMICS
1986; 15 (1): 63-77
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CONTINUOUS UTILITY-FUNCTIONS IN CONSUMER THEORY - A SET OF DUALITY THEOREMS
JOURNAL OF MATHEMATICAL ECONOMICS
1986; 15 (1): 63-77
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