Showing posts with label networks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label networks. Show all posts
Sunday, September 24, 2023

Nobel Symposium on Social Networks Lund, Sweden, August, 2023

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A Nobel Symposium on Social Networks was held in Lund last month.The papers don't appear to be online, but it ended with a round table d...
Sunday, September 4, 2022

Crowd control of misinformation, by limiting fast forwarding, by Jackson, Malladi and McAdams in PNAS

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  Here's a paper in PNAS about limiting the spread of misinformation by changing the network of information flows: Learning through the ...
Thursday, March 3, 2022

Matt Jackson wins the BBVA Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Economics

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  The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Economics, Finance and Management has gone in this fourteenth edition to Matthew O. Ja...
Friday, June 26, 2020

Pandemic policies work differently in different places

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Here's a recent largely empirical paper by many authors, looking at the actual and counterfactual impact of different pandemic response...
Tuesday, May 5, 2020

Contact tracing as a component of ending corona pandemic lock-downs

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One important idea behind 'flattening the curve' of covid-19 cases is that, if lockdowns reduce the case rate sufficiently, the eco...
Thursday, August 11, 2016

Matt Jackson, profiled in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Matt Jackson in the PNAS:  Profile of Matthew O. Jackson Here's the 'Extract' (the full article seems to be gated but this ...
Thursday, December 1, 2011

What does the NSF do? What should it do? Reports from and about the Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences, and Dec 1 Webinar

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What should the National Science Foundation division of Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences be doing? They asked and we answered , and...
Thursday, July 29, 2010

Peer to peer overnight accommodations

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The NY Times reviews sites of "social network bed and breakfasts" on which you can reserve rooms for overnight stays in cities aro...
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Friday, April 23, 2010

More on kidney donation and social networking

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It continues to look like social networking may become big for kidney donation . Here's a recent story from New England: Conn. mayor don...
Saturday, April 10, 2010

Networks in markets that unravel, and those that don't: Itay Fainmesser

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Itay Fainmesser defended his dissertation yesterday. One of the papers in his dissertation concerns job markets that have “unraveled” so t...
Thursday, October 1, 2009

Michael Kearns heads up a new market design program at Penn

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The University of Pennsylvania today issued a press release announcing a new undergrad program: Penn Launches Undergraduate Program in Marke...
Thursday, September 24, 2009

Entrepreneurial Market Design

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In the coming weeks, I'll be making a series of posts on a subject I term Entrepreneurial Market Design , the study of creating for-prof...
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Thursday, March 5, 2009

Trust and trustworthiness: promoting and maintaining it

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Trust is essential for all sorts of transactions, and how to set up institutions to promote trust and trustworthiness in the marketplace is ...
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Thursday, February 19, 2009

Online job search

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The WSJ has two articles about congestion on online job search sites. The first reports that, not only is it hard for employers to sort thro...
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Monday, February 9, 2009

Market for electric cars

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Before there's a very big market for all-electric cars, there would have to be a way to take long trips in them. For gas-powered cars, t...
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Friday, February 6, 2009

Networks and high school athletes

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While the NCAA regulates the communication between high school and college coaches, it has more trouble regulating third-party networkers, t...
Thursday, February 5, 2009

Networks and labor markets: Internships

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The British government is promoting internships as one entryway into the labor market, and as a way to increase social mobility. But the Tim...