For fun

Publications and working papers:

• Relating Network Structures to Diffusion Properties through Stochastic Dominance, with Matthew Jackson (The B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics, 7(1) (Advances), Article 6). (Recipient of the 2007 BE Press Arrow Prize for Senior Economists)

• Meeting Strangers and Friends of Friends: How Random are Social Networks?, with Matthew Jackson (The American Economic Review, 97(3), June 2007). Chicago Tribune Writeup: March 6, 2007.

• Heterogeneous Quantal Response Equilibrium and Cognitive Hierarchies, with Colin Camerer and Tom Palfrey (First draft: June 2005, current draft: May 2008; under review).

• Divergence, Closed Cycles and Convergence in Scarf Environments: Experiments in the Dynamics of General Equilibrium Systems, with Ming Hsu, Masayoshi Hirota and Charlie Plott (October, 2005; Social Science Working Paper No. 1239; under review).

• A Strategic Theory of Network Status (under revision).

• The Timing of Social Learning (First draft: May 2003; This draft: September, 2005; under revision).

• The Economics of Small Worlds, with Matthew Jackson (Journal of the European Economic Association, 3(2-3), April 2005: 617-627).

• Self-Correcting Information Cascades, with Jacob Goeree, Tom Palfrey, and Richard McKelvey (The Review of Economic Studies, 74(3), July 2007). Experimental instructions: slides only, or slides with voice-over (zipped, 30Mb)

• Social Learning With Private and Common Values, with Jacob Goeree and Tom Palfrey (Economic Theory, 28(2), June 2006: 245-264).

• Here are slides from a tutorial I gave with Florian Herold at ACM EC08 titled "Economic Aspects of Social Networks". They borrow in places from Matt Jackson's textbook on the topic.

My CV contains a list of work in progress.