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Workshops » Networks Special Three-Day Workshop on "Networks as Determinants of Economic and Political Behavior"
The idea that social relations and networks of such relations have a significant impact on economic and political behavior of individual agents at the micro level and accordingly on aggregate outcomes of individual actions at the macro level has been increasingly recognized at both academic and political levels. Although sociologists much earlier than economists and political scientists initiated the science of social networks, nowadays also economists and political scientists increasingly work on social networks.
Objectives of the workshop
In this regard the workshop aims to bring together interdisciplinary scholars working in the field of social networks as determinants of economic and human behavior at the micro or macro level. This broad idea is further subdivided in the following 3 sections:
- Economics and Networks including the topics ‘Networks and Markets’, ‘Networks and the Firm’ as well as ‘Social Capital’. At the methodological level evolutionary economic and game-theoretical approaches as well as models of economic sociology are included.
- The Emergence and Dynamics of Networks including in particular work on statistical estimation of networks, e.g., Exponential Random Graph Models or Latent Space models as well as new developments in these fields.
- Policy Networks including classical policy network analysis, but also new developments on the impact of social networks on voting behavior, political accountability, and governmental performance.
Target Group
The workshop is designed for leading experts and interdisciplinary scholars in empirical or theoretical research on social networks.
Workshop Participation
Participation is by invitation only. To apply for participation please send a full paper to: uschwarz@ae.uni-kiel.de until 15 July 2009. Final decisions on participation will be communicated by 30 July 2009. Participation includes free workshop materials, full board and lodging as well as travel costs.
Invited Speakers |
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| Matthew O. Jackson |
| Roberto M. Fernandez |
| Thomas Lux |
| Tom A.B. Snijders |
| Michael D. Ward |
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