Workshops on Network Economics

网络对于理解经济结果至关重要。多个关键经济问题需要网络分析。一个人是否购买某种商品可能取决于他向谁寻求有关价格和产品质量的建议。在医院中给予患者的护理以及护理费用取决于医院和医生的网络连接。了解网络是如何形成的，它们是如何被使用的，以及它们在不同情况下的结构对社会科学的几乎所有方面都很重要。为了理解网络化社会和经济的基本属性，这些属性可能适用于不同的情况，从多个角度深入理解网络理论至关重要。该奖项资助了一系列会议，将推动这一领域的研究。讲习班还将传播正在进行的工作，使有前途的研究能够找到关键的受众和宝贵的反馈，并将为该领域的新研究人员和研究生提供接触一些关于网络的尖端、新的和开创性研究的来源。系列会议中的每一次会议都将有一个主题，但提交的与系列会议总体重点有关的所有文件都将得到审议。感兴趣的关键经济问题包括网络化的市场，传染和扩散，同质性，隔离和歧视，网络在经济发展和不平等。合作和非合作博弈论方法以及决策理论方法将是相关的。也有相关的理论和计量经济学的问题，开发新的模型和统计技术，估计网络的相互作用，这也可能会被处理。在网络模型的背景下，将介绍经济学中各种应用领域的研究。组织者将邀请来自其他学科的相关研究的演讲者，包括计算机科学，社会学和统计物理学，以鼓励跨学科的工作。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Networks are crucial in understanding economic outcomes. Multiple key economic questions require a network analysis. Whether an individual purchases one commodity or another may depend on from whom he seeks advice about prices and product qualities. The care given to a patient in a hospital and how much it costs can depend on the network connections of the hospital and of the physician. Understanding how networks form, how they are used and their structure in diverse situations is important to almost all aspects of the social sciences. To understand the fundamental properties of networked societies and economies, those that may hold in diverse situations, it is crucial to develop a deeper understanding of network theory from multiple perspectives. This award funds a series of conferences that will advance research in this area. The workshops will also disseminate work in progress, enable promising research to find a critical audience and valuable feedback, and will provide new researchers to the area and graduate students a source of exposure to some of the cutting-edge, new and path-breaking research on networks. Each conference in the series will have a theme but all papers submitted relevant to the general focus of the conference series will be considered. Key economic issues of interest include networked markets, contagion and diffusion, homophily, segregation and discrimination, networks in economic development, and inequality. Cooperative and non-cooperative game theoretic approaches as well as decision-theoretic approaches will be relevant. There are also related theoretical and econometric issues of developing new models and statistical techniques for estimating networked interactions, which may also be treated. Within the context of networked models there will be presentations of research a wide variety of applied fields in economics. Organizers will invite speakers doing related research from other disciplines, including computer science, sociology, and statistical physics in order to encourage interdisciplinary work.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.