WORKING GROUP ON FORMATION AND DECAY OF ECONOMIC NETWORKS
Inaugural meeting, February 4-5, 2002
Russell Sage Foundation,
Agenda
Monday, February 4
9:00 am
Continental breakfast
9:25 am
Introductions and Opening Remarks
9:30 am "Incentive-Compatible Network Formation"
Rachel Kranton, Department of Economics, University of
Maryland
10:30 am Break
11:00 am "Decay
of Economic Networks"
Ron
Burt, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago
Noon
Break
12:30 pm Lunch
1:30 pm "Learning, Motivation, and Friendship
in Industry Peer Networks"
Stoyan Sgourev, Stanford University
Ezra
Zuckerman, Sloan School of Management, MIT
2:30 pm Break
3:00 pm "Entrepreneurial Network Formation"
Jim Rauch, Department of
Economics, UC San Diego and NBER
4:00 pm Break
4:30 pm "Network Formation and Geography"
Toby Stuart,
Columbia Business School, Columbia University
5:30 pm Break
7:00 pm Dinner
Tuesday, February 5
9:00 am Continental
breakfast
9:30 am "Identification of Network Effects"
Kaivan Munshi, Department of
Economics, University of Pennsylvania
Plus a brief presentation by Jim Rauch of "Learning About Technology:
Pineapple in Ghana"
by Tim Conley,
Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago
Chris Udry,
Department of Economics, Yale University
11:00 am Break
11:30 am
"Formation and Decay of Economic Networks: Where do we stand?"
Group Discussion
12:30 pm Lunch and
Discussion of future group activities
2:00 pm
Adjourn
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