TI Dutch Network Economics Day

On October 17, 2019, the 2nd Dutch Network Economics Day takes place at Tinbergen Institute.

Network Economics is a prominent new research approach towards economic research. Rather than treating markets as anonymous, this approach takes into account who interacts with whom in markets and organizations, leading to new insights on the emergence of economic crises, market inefficiencies and inequality.

Also, in The Netherlands more and more economists have been applying the network approach in their research. For the second time, we bring together Dutch network economists, and give them the opportunity to get acquainted with each other and each other’s work.

Program

10:00 – 11:00 Session 1: Conflict and Cooperation in Networks

Jeroen Bruggeman (University of Amsterdam)
Spontaneous Cooperation for Public Goods

Michael König (VU University Amsterdam)
Networks in Syrian Conflict

Marina Uzunova (VU University Amsterdam)
Regime Change and Stability

11:20 – 12:20 Session 2: Network Fundamentals

René van den Brink (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
Degree Centrality, Utility and Externalities in Networks

Remco van der Hofstad (TU Eindhoven)
Relating Structure and Function of Complex Networks

Bauke Visser (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
The Value of Connections to Power: the Case of Editorial Boards of Economics Journals

13:20 – 14:20 Session 3: Networks and Markets

Maarten Bosker (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
Network Effects in Global Value Chains

Pim Heijnen (University of Groningen)
Price Competition on Graphs

Erik Verhoef (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
Tradable Permits for Managing Congested Networks

14:40 – 15:40 Session 4: Expectations and Behavior in Networks

Tania Treibich (Maastricht University)
Rational heuristics? Expectations and Behaviors in Evolving Economies with Heterogeneous, Interacting Agents

Stephanie Rosenkranz (Utrecht University)
Gender Differences in Networking

Rense Corten (Utrecht University)
Dyadic and Network Learning in Online Drug Marketplaces: Commitment or Market Efficiency?

16:00 – 17:00 Session 5: Network Empirics

Marco van der Leij (University of Amsterdam)
On the Influence of Top Journals

Roger Laeven (University of Amsterdam)
Financial Contagion and Systemic Risk: Mutual Excitation

Frank Takes (Leiden University and University of Amsterdam)
Discovering the Building Blocks of Socio-Economic Networks

View full program here: link to program

The Workshop is organized by fellows Ines Lindner (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), René van den Brink (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), and Marco van der Leij (University of Amsterdam).