Cambridge Economics Alumni Webinar Series: Gender and Economics
In this webinar, Professor Sanjeev Goyal FBA discussed how he has applied his ground-breaking research on the economics of networks to examine how women’s and men’s research productivity in academia are shaped by gender-based differences in their collaboration networks. Dr Noriko Amano-Patiño followed with a presentation outlining her work on the lifecycle evolution of the gender pay gap. Read More>>
Event Date - Thursday 19th November 2020
Tags:Election Shock: Social Networks and Confirmation Bias
The prominent role of social media in elections exacerbates the tendency of voters to disregard information contrary to their beliefs, according to two University of Cambridge researchers. Dr Edoardo Gallo and Alastair Langtry in the new working paper 'Social networks, Confirmation Bias and Shock Elections' suggest this behaviour risks shock election outcomes, and pushes fringe media organisations to take even more extreme standpoints.
Published on - Monday 2nd November 2020
Tags:Production Network Analysis and COVID-19 Policy
Professor Vasco Carvalho and Professor Andrea Galeotti (London Business School) have published an article for Economics Observatory on "How Can Production Network Analysis Inform Policy on COVID-19?". This article looks at how production network analysis can provide insights into the effects of imposing and lifting lockdowns, which in turn can lead to policies to support recovery.
Published on - Tuesday 25th August 2020
Tags:Adam Smith Prize Winners 2020
The Faculty is proud to announce the winners of the Adam Smith Prize for 2020. The prize for best overall performance was shared by Liam Grant (St John’s College), David Lee (Christ’s College) and Neal Patel (Homerton College). The prize for the best dissertation was awarded to Andrew Koh (Hughes Hall) and Michael Bennett (St John’s College).
Published on - Monday 27th July 2020
Tags:Large Scale Experiments Webinar Series - Edoardo Gallo
Cambridge-INET, Prof. Sanjeev Goyal and Dr. Frederic Moisan are hosting a series of webinars on "Large Scale Experiments". The seventh webinar of this series will be given by Edoardo Gallo (University of Cambridge) on "Fines and Progressive Ideology Trump Informational Campaigns in Promoting Social Distancing" and will take place on Thursday 30th July 2020, at 2.00pm. Read More>>
Event Date - Thursday 30th July 2020
Tags:Large Scale Experiments Webinar Series - Sinan Aral
Cambridge-INET, Prof. Sanjeev Goyal and Dr. Frederic Moisan are hosting a series of webinars on "Large Scale Experiments". The sixth webinar of this series will be given by Sinan Aral (MIT) on the 23rd July 2020 at 2.00pm. Read More>>
Event Date - Thursday 23rd July 2020
Tags:Large Scale Experiments Webinar Series - Marina Agranov
Cambridge-INET, Prof. Sanjeev Goyal and Dr. Frederic Moisan are hosting a series of webinars on "Large Scale Experiments". The fifth webinar of this series will be given by Marina Agranov (Caltech) on her paper "Information Aggregation on Networks: an Experimental Study", joint with Ben Gillen (Claremont McKenna College) and Dotan Persitz (Tel Aviv University). The webinar will take place on Thursday 16th July 2020, at 4.00pm. Read More>>
Event Date - Thursday 16th July 2020
Tags:Large Scale Experiments Webinar Series - Damon Centola
Cambridge-INET, Prof. Sanjeev Goyal and Dr. Frederic Moisan are hosting a series of webinars on "Large Scale Experiments". The fourth webinar of this series will be given by Damon Centola (University of Pennsylvania) on “Large Scale Network Experiments on Tipping Points in Social Norms” and will take place on Thursday 9th July 2020, at 2.00pm Read More>>
Event Date - Thursday 9th July 2020
Tags:Large Scale Experiments Webinar Series - Syngjoo Choi
Cambridge-INET, Prof. Sanjeev Goyal and Dr. Frederic Moisan are hosting a series of webinars on "Large Scale Experiments". The third webinar of this series will be given by Syngjoo Choi (Seoul National University) on "Large Scale Experiments on Networks: A New Platform with Applications" (joint paper with Sanjeev Goyal and Frederic Moisan) and will take place on Thursday 2nd July 2020, at 2.00pm. Read More>>
Event Date - Thursday 2nd July 2020
Tags:Large Scale Experiments Webinar Series - Ryan Oprea
Cambridge-INET, Prof. Sanjeev Goyal and Dr. Frederic Moisan are hosting a series of webinars on "Large Scale Experiments". The second of these webinars will be given by Ryan Oprea (UC Santa Barbara) on "Naturally Occurring Preferences and General Equilibrium" and will take place on Thursday 25th June 2020, at 4.00pm.
Event Date - Thursday 25th June 2020
Tags:Large Scale Experiments Webinar Series - Roberto Weber
Cambridge-INET, Prof. Sanjeev Goyal and Dr. Frederic Moisan are hosting a series of webinars on "Large Scale Experiments". The first of these webinars will be given by Roberto Weber (University of Zurich) on "Public Discourse and Socially Responsible Market Behavior" (joint paper with Björn Bartling, Vanessa Valero and Lan Yao) and will take place on Thursday 18th June 2020, at 2.00pm.
Event Date - Thursday 18th June 2020
Tags:Monetary Networks - Project
Dr Edoardo Gallo has been awarded a grant by the International Foundation for Research in Experimental Economics (IFREE) for a project on "Monetary networks". The project is led by Dr. Gallo as principal investigator (PI) in collaboration with Professor Maria Bigoni (University of Bologna) and Professor Gabriele Camera (Chapman University).
Published on - Sunday 24th May 2020
Tags:Faculty Articles Recommended for Undergraduate Teaching
Professor Vasco M. Carvalho, Professor Sheilagh Ogilvie and Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta have all had papers submitted to the Journal of Economic Perspectives, by fellow Professor's, as articles that have found useful to support teaching.
Published on - Tuesday 24th September 2019
Tags:Cambridge Networks Day (CNDay)
CNDay is a one day, interdisciplinary meeting on complex networks and their applications organised by the Cambridge Networks Network. The event will be held on the 29th August 2019, from 9.30am-5.30pm, in Sainsbury Laboratory, Bateman Street, Cambridge and is supported by The Alan Turing Institute, Cambridge Big Data and King's College Cambridge.
Event Date - Thursday 29th August 2019
Tags:Dr. Matt Elliott joins Cambridge-INET as a Coordinator
Cambridge-INET is delighted to announce that Dr. Matt Elliott will be joining as a Coordinator for the Networks, Crowds and Markets research theme, on the 1st August 2019. Read More>>
Published on - Thursday 18th July 2019
Tags:Production Networks in Macroeconomics
Professor Vasco Carvalho was asked to give a keynote address at the 2019 ESCoE Conference on Economic Measurement. The series of ESCoE Conferences on Economic Measurement aim to promote research on economic measurement and increase dialogue between academic economists, national statisticians and statistics users to improve economic measurement. Read More>>
Published on - Wednesday 10th July 2019
Tags:Seventh European Conference on Networks
Cambridge-INET and the European Research Council (ERC) are holding the Seventh European Conference on Networks at Jesus College, Cambridge, on 10th-11th June 2019.
Event Date - Monday 10th June 2019 - Tuesday 11th June 2019
Tags:J M Keynes Fellowship Fund Lectures
Professor Vasco Carvalho will give a talk on "Networked Perspectives on the Macroeconomy" as part of the J M Keynes Fellowship Fund's evening of special lectures. The event will take place on Thursday 21 February 2019, between 17.30-19.30pm, in the McCrum Lecture Theatre, Cambridge and will featuring five of the Fund's distinguished Fellows speaking about their innovative research in the field of financial economics.
Event Date - Thursday 21st February 2019
Tags:Conflict in Networks: The Rise and Fall of Empires
Professor Sanjeev Goyal will give the MIT Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS) Distinguished Seminar on Tuesday 1st May 2018, Cambridge, MA. See poster for details.
Published on - Thursday 26th April 2018
Tags:Prof. Goyal to give Keynote Lecture in Spain
Professor Sanjeev Goyal will deliver a Keynote Lecture at The Conference on Complexity, Networks, and Collective Behaviour in Zaragoza, Spain.
Published on - Tuesday 6th February 2018
Tags:Workshop on Networks
Workshop on Networks will take place on April 21st 2017 in the Faculty of Economics, Keynes Room from 2.30pm to 5.30pm. Please register your interest in this event.
Event Date - Friday 21st April 2017 - Saturday 22nd April 2017
Tags:Prof. Sanjeev Goyal Publishes Two New Papers
Professor Sanjeev Goyal and Julien Gagnon's paper "Networks, Markets, and Inequality" is the lead article in the latest American Economic Review and his joint paper with Marcin Dziubinski "How to defend a network?" has also been published in the Theoretical Economics journal.
Published on - Tuesday 7th March 2017
Tags:J M Keynes Fellowship Fund Lectures
Professors, Giancarlo Corsetti, Sanjeev Goyal and Hamid Sabourian will be speaking at the J M Keynes Fellowship Fund Lecture, on Tuesday 21 February 2017, 17.30-19.30, in The McGrath Centre, St Catharine's College
Event Date - Tuesday 21st February 2017
Tags:Networks, Markets, and Inequality
Professor Sanjeev Goyal and Julien Gagnon's paper on "Networks, Markets, and Inequality" has been published as the lead article in the American Economic Review. Read More>>
Published on - Thursday 5th January 2017
Tags:Understanding the Economics of Networks
Professor Sanjeev Goyal was interviewed by INET (New York) on "Understanding the Economics of Networks". In this video interview Prof. Goyal explains his general theory of network formation based on individual incentives, and their economic implications.
Published on - Friday 9th September 2016
Tags:Networks in Trade and Macroeconomics
The Cambridge-INET and the Centre for History and Economics will hold a 'Networks in Trade and Macroeconomics' event on June 13th-14th 2016, in Magdalene College, Cambridge.
Event Date - Monday 13th June 2016 - Tuesday 14th June 2016
Tags:Behavioural Economics and Networks
Sanjeev Goyal and Julien Gagnon are holding a Behavioural Economics and Networks event in the Keynes Room, Faculty of Economics on 10th June 2016, from 02:30 PM to 05:30 PM.
Event Date - Friday 10th June 2016
Tags:Networks and Search Workshop
Cambridge-INET are hosting a Networks and Search Workshop on Tuesday 23rd February 2016, from .2.00pm-5.45pm, in the Saltmarsh Rooms, King's College, Cambridge.
Event Date - Tuesday 23rd February 2016
Tags:Third European Meeting on Networks
The Meeting aims to offer a forum for the presentation and dissemination of frontier research on Networks.
Event Date - Thursday 18th June 2015 - Friday 19th June 2015
Tags:Econometrics of Networks Workshop
The Econometrics of Networks Workshop is a joint workshop between Cambridge-INET and The Econometrics Journal. It will be held on 17th June 2015, from 09:00 AM to 05:00 PM at the Cambridge City Hotel, Cambridge.
Event Date - Wednesday 17th June 2015
Tags:Symposium on Contagion
This symposium brings together researchers working on different aspects of contagion from different perspectives, in order to explore common features and foster cross-pollination. Speakers will present work drawn from economics and finance, biology, computer science, network science and public health.
Event Date - Friday 24th April 2015
Tags:Workshop on Networks, Institutions, and Economic History
Workshop on Networks, Institutions, and Economic History, 29 June - 1 July at Madingley Hall.
Event Date - Tuesday 1st July 2014
Tags:Dr. Vasco Carvalho Awarded ERC Grant for MACRONETS Research
Dr Vasco Carvalho, a Cambridge-INET Research-Theme Co-ordinator, has been awarded an ERC Starting Grant for his research 'Production networks in Macroeconomics (MACRONETS)'. Read More>>
Published on - Thursday 24th October 2013
Tags:Workshop on Networks
Cambridge-INET will host a Workshop on Networks on 26th March 2013, 14:30 - 18:30, in the Keynes Room, Faculty of Economics, The University of Cambridge.
Event Date - Tuesday 26th March 2013
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