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VI Summer School on Economics and Philosophy 
 
THE ROLE OF SOCIAL INTERACTIONS AND NETWORKS IN ECONOMICS 
 
Urrutia-Elejalde Foundation & University of the Basque Country 
 
San Sebastian (Spain) | 21st July - 24th July, 2003 
 
Directors: Matthew O. Jackson (Caltech) & Antoni Calvó-Armengol (UAB) 
 
Coordination: Alfonso Dubois (UPV/EHU) 
 
http://escuela.urrutiaelejalde.org/network_theory.html 
 
Many interactions involve network relationships. For this reason, social and 
economic networks often determine the economic success of individuals and, 
thereby, play a prominent role in explaining a wide range of economic phenomena. During
the last decade, a flowering literature has undertaken a
systematic theoretical and empirical scrutiny of the role played by networks 
in economics. In an attempt to understand how the shape of the network frames agents
decisions, an important part of the literature relates the specifics of the network
structure to predicted behaviour in a variety of contexts. The endogenous creation of
social networks is also a recurrent theme of analysis. On the empirical side, efforts have
concentrated on the detection and measurement of network effects in the data, and the
identification of the network relationships underlying observed patterns of behaviour.
 
 
SPEAKERS: Francis Bloch (GREQAM); Antoni Calvó-Armengol (Universitat Autònoma de
Barcelona); Baskhar Dutta (University of Warwick); Matthew O. Jackson (California
Institute of Technology); Rachel Kranton (University of Maryland); Joel Sobel (University
of California San Diego); Giorgio Topa (New York University); Fernando Vega-Redondo
(Universidad de Alicante)
 
CONTRIBUTED PAPERS: Contributed papers: The organizers will consider short 
presentation proposals for a 30mn talk (20mn talk + 10mn questions) on any 
of the topics to be discussed at the Summer School. Please, submit an extended abstract to
Antoni Calvó-Armengol [[log in to unmask]] before May
31st. 
 
The organization also offers a number of GRANTS to cover registration fees or
accomodation.
 
FURTHER INFORMATION: 
 
Any question concerning the VI Summer School may be addressed to its coordinator, Alfonso
Dubois [[log in to unmask]]. See also:
 
http://www.sc.ehu.es/scrwwwsu/Ingles/cv.htm 
 
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