Economic and social networks
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Course Syllabus, Fall 2014
Department of Economics, Central European University
Tuesday 3:30-5:30pm, usually 509 FT
2 Credits
www.personal.ceu.hu/staff/AdamSzeidl/networkscourse/networkscourse.htm
Instructor: Professor Adam Szeidl
szeidla@ceu.hu
Office hours: Thurs 4-5pm, 414 Nador 11., sign up online
Social networks a ect many economic transactions. They transmit information about
job opportunities, a ect the trade of goods and services, in
uence how diseases spread,
which products we buy, how we vote, whether we become criminals, which technologies we adopt. They also create trust and provide access to nancial and other resources. This
course reviews some current research on social networks in economics. We will explore both theoretical models and their applications to development and labor economics. The course begins with an overview of basic facts and tools. We will then cover network formation, peer effects and the social multiplier, social capital and trust, information aggregation in networks, social learning, trade in networks, technology di usion, job search, and other topics. One goal of the course is to identify new research questions for students.
Requirements.
Student presentations, homeworks and a final exam. Small groups of
students will be assigned a topic, and several lectures will consist entirely of student presentations. There will also be regular homework assignments. These will not be graded,
but we will provide solutions.
Your course grade will be determined as follows:
Student presentation 50%
Final exam 50%
Prerequisites.
This course is intended for second-year MA and for PhD students, and
knowledge of MA level microeconomics and econometrics is assumed.
Learning outcomes. By the end of this course, students will have: (1) Knowledge and
understanding of the current research on the economics of social networks. (2) The ability
to read research papers in this eld. (3) The ability to present and critically discuss research
1 papers in this eld. (4) Sucient understanding of open issues to formulate a new research
question in this eld.
Texts.
The textbook for the course is
Matthew O. Jackson (2008) Social and Economic Networks, Princeton University Press,
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