Networks in Economic Models - Nov 15th

Chairs

Jeanne Hagenbach is Director of Research at the CNRS and Professor of Economics at Sciences Po’s Department of Economics. Her research focuses on game theory and behavioural and experimental economics. In 2016, she was awarded the CNRS Bronze Medal for her work on strategic communication. In 2019, she received an ERC Starting grant for her project ‘Motivated Reading of Evidence - MOREV’. She is on the editorial board of the Review of Economic Studies and associate editor of the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organizations.
 

Margherita Comola is a Professor of Economics at the University Paris-Saclay, which she also directed from 2017 to 2021, and an Affiliate Professor at the Paris School of Economics (PSE)
.Her area of research lies at the crossroads of network economics and econometrics: she is interested in the empirical analysis of social networks and their economic impact, drawing on theoretical network models from game theory. In 2021 she was appointed Junior Member of the Institut Universitaire de France (IUF) and awarded a Fundamental Chair in Network Economics for five years. Her research programme aims to study the determinants of the formation of social ties from a behavioural point of view. She was awarded the same year a ANR grant for her project ‘How do you choose your partners? Experimental evidence on digital link formation – LinkLab’.

Guest speakers

Jean-Marc Robin is a Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics of Sciences Po, Paris. He was previously a professor of economics at the University of Paris 1-PSE and at the University College London. His research interests are microeconometrics, labour microeconomics, and search and matching. With Fabien Postel-Vinay, he was awarded the 2006 Frisch Medal for their article "Equilibrium Wage Dispersion with Worker and Employer Heterogeneity", Econometrica, 70(6), November 2002, 2295-2350. He is a fellow of the Econometric Society and a former co-editor of Econometrica. Professor Robin obtained two ERC Advanced Grants (projects WASP and MARNET) and is a Fellow of the Institut Universitaire de France. In 2024, he was elected Second Vice-President of the Econometric Society.
 

Emeric Henry is a Professor and Head of Sciences Po's Department of Economics. A renowned microeconomist, he uses economic theory, experimental and empirical methods to conduct his research. His areas of research include the economics of innovation, the digital economy and political economy. In 2009, he was awarded the "Chaire d'Excellence Junior" (Junior Excellence Chair) by the French National Research Agency (ANR) and several other ANR grants. Emeric Henry was awarded the Deutsche Bahn Prize jointly with Yann Algan, also a researcher at the Department, currently on leave. In 2021 he was awarded a grant by the Project Liberty's Institute (formerly McCourt Institute) for his project Slowing disinformation on social media: digital literacy, fact checking and digital governance. 
 

Matthew O. Jackson is the William D. Eberle Professor of Economics at Stanford University and an external faculty member of the Santa Fe Institute. He was at Northwestern University and Caltech before joining Stanford, and received his BA from Princeton University in 1984 and PhD from Stanford in 1988. Jackson's research interests include game theory, microeconomic theory, and the study of social and economic networks, on which he has published many articles and the books The Human Network and Social and Economic Networks. Jackson is a Member of the National Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Econometric Society, the Game Theory Society, and an Economic Theory Fellow. His other honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Social Choice and Welfare Prize, the von Neumann Award from Rajk Laszlo College, an honorary doctorate from Aix-Marseille University, the Jean-Jacques Laffont Prize from the Toulouse School of Economics, and the BBVA Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Economics, Finance, and Management. 
 

Julien Grenet is a Chaired Professor at the Paris School of Economics, a Director of Research at the CNRS, and the Deputy Director of the Institut des Politiques Publiques (IPP). A specialist in the economics of education, he has published a number of studies on school choice policies and the impact of financial aid on student success in higher education and has been awarded a number of consequential grants, notably two recent ANR grants that look at the impact of admissions procedures and criteria on school choice (projects APB and Admission_Criteria). He is particularly interested in public policies aimed at reducing inequalities, both at school and in higher education.

10 - 10.15 am CET / 4 - 4.15 am EST
Conference opening 

10.15 - 11.15 am CET / 4.15 - 5.15 am EST
Chair: Jeanne Hagenbach
Jean-Marc Robin, Ridge Estimation of Two-Way Fixed Effect Regression (with Junnan He)

11.15 - 11.30 am CET / 5.15 - 5.30 am EST
Break

11.30 am - 12.30 pm CET / 5.30 - 6.30 am EST
Chair: Jeanne Hagenbach
Emeric Henry, Curtailing False News, Amplifying Truth (with Sergei Guriev, Théo Marquis, Ekaterina Zhuravskaya)

12.30 - 2 pm CET / 6.30 - 8 am EST
Lunch

2 - 3 pm CET / 8 - 9 am EST
Chair: Margherita Comola
Matthew Jackson, Social Influences on Neighborhood Choices and Intergenerational Mobility (with Raj Chetty)

3 - 3.15 pm CET / 9 - 9.15 am EST
Break

3.15 - 4.15 pm CET / 9.15 - 10.15 am EST
Chair: Margherita Comola
Julien Grenet, Friendship Networks and Social Diversity at School: Evidence from a Desegregation Program (with Ghazala Azmat, Yann Bramoullé, Elise Huillery, Aristide Houndetoungan, and Youssef Souidi)