----------------- HES POSTING ----------------- 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 For regular updates, please join our mailing list: send an e-mail with your name and address to [log in to unmask] ------------ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ------------ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]