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Brian W. Rogers
Brian W Rogers

MANAGERIAL ECONOMICS & DECISION SCIENCES
Assistant Professor of Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences

Print Overview
Professor Rogers joined the MEDS faculty at the Kellogg School of Management in 2006 after earning a PhD in Social Sciences from the California Institute of Technology. His research interests lie broadly within microeconomic theory and game theory. Current projects include the modeling of social networking, an analysis of diffusion processes across a population, an experimental test of group opinion formation, a theory of learning in repeated games, and the development of statistical models of strategic behavior.

Areas of Expertise
Behavioral Economics (Includes: Behavioral Finance)
Economic Theory
Game Theory
  • Recent Media Coverage

    Economist Intelligence Unit: Executive Briefing: Meeting strangers and friends of friends - 9/2/2008

    The Mint (Dow Jones publication in India): It is a small world after all - 8/27/2007

    Globe and Mail (Canada): Social Studies: School and prison - 3/16/2007

    Chicago Tribune: The mathematics of friendship - 3/6/2007

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Print Vita
Education
PhD, 2006, California Institute of Technology
MS, 2003, California Institute of Technology
BA, 2001, Economics, Mathematics, University of Virginia, Highest Distinction

Academic Positions
Assistant Professor of Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, 2006-present

 
Print Research
Research Interests
Microeconomic theory, game theory, network formation, behavioral game theory

Articles
Rogers, Brian W., Thomas R. Palfrey and Colin Camerer. Forthcoming. Heterogeneous Quantal Response Equilibrium and Cognitive Hierarchies. Journal of Economic Theory.
Jackson, Matthew O. and Brian W. Rogers. 2007. Meeting Strangers and Friends of Friends: How Random are Social Networks?. American Economic Review. 97(3): 890-915.
Jackson, Matthew O. and Brian W. Rogers. 2007. Relating Network Structure to Diffusion Properties through Stochastic Dominance. B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics (Advances). 7(1)
Goeree, Jacob K., Thomas R. Palfrey and Brian W. Rogers. 2007. Self-correcting Information Cascades. Review of Economic Studies. 74(3): 733-762.
Goeree, Jacob K., Thomas R. Palfrey and Brian W. Rogers. 2006. Social Learning with Private and Common Values. Economic Theory. 28(2): 245-264.
Jackson, Matthew O. and Brian W. Rogers. 2005. The Economics of Small Worlds. Journal of the European Economic Association. 3(2): 617-627.
Working Papers
Rogers, Brian W. and Andrea Galeotti. 2009. Immunizations in Social Networks.
Bramoulle, Yann and Brian W. Rogers. 2009. Diversity and Popularity in Social Networks.
Rogers, Brian W.. 2006. A Strategic Theory of Network Status.
Hirota, Masayoshi, Ming Hsu, Charles Plott and Brian W. Rogers. 2005. Divergence, Closed Cycles and Convergence in Scarf Environments: Experiments in the Dynamics of General Equilibrium Systems.
Rogers, Brian W.. 2005. The Timing of Social Learning.

 
Print Teaching
Teaching Interests
Microeconomic theory, network formation
Full-Time / Part-Time MBA
Microeconomic Analysis (MECN-430-0)

This course counts toward the following majors: Managerial Economics.

Among the topics this core course addresses are economic analysis and optimal decisions, consumer choice and the demand for products, production functions and cost curves, market structures and strategic interactions, and pricing and non-price concepts. Cases and problems are used to understand economic tools and their potential for solving real-world problems. Prerequisite: DECS-434, or concurrent registration.

Doctoral
Selected Topics in Economic Theory (MECS-468-2)
Selected Topics in Economic Theory