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Conference on Network Science and Economics 2022

The conference was held in-person at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business on March 18-19, 2022.

The first day, Friday, March 18, 2022 was a single-track special theme session on (Mis)information in networks. The organizers especially encouraged submissions within this theme. The remaining days ran with parallel sessions on all topics in the series’ broader theme of networks in economics, which included:

  • learning in networks
  • selling information
  • interfirm networks
  • diffusion
  • strategic marketing and influence maximization
  • peer effects
  • homophily
  • network centrality
  • networks in international trade
  • networks of alliances and conflict
  • financial networks
  • models of network formation
  • games on networks
  • exchange and intermediation
  • econometrics and statistics of networks

The fully detailed agenda including session locations can be found here.

The conference was sponsored by the National Science Foundation, with additional support from the Booth School of Business and the Becker Friedman Institute, and was part of an NSF-sponsored series, Network Science in Economics. It aimed to foster the development and dissemination of cutting edge research in network theory.

Agenda

Friday, March 18, 2022
09:15:00–09:30:00

Opening remarks

09:30:00–10:00:00

A Model of Online Misinformation; Naive and Bayesian Learning with Misinformation Policies

10:00:00–10:30:00

In Platforms We Trust: Misinformation on Social Networks In the Presence of Social Mistrust

10:30:00–11:00:00

Coffee Break

11:00:00–11:30:00

Subscription, Verification, and Disclosure in News Subscription Services

11:30:00–12:00:00

False Information from Near and Far

12:00:00–13:30:00

Lunch Break

13:30:00–14:00:00

Organizing Modular Production

14:00:00–14:30:00

An Equilibrium Model of Learning on Networks

14:30:00–15:00:00

Coffee Break

15:00:00–15:30:00

Learning in Networks with Idiosyncratic Agents

15:30:00–16:00:00

Optimal Inspection of Rumors in Networks

16:00:00

Conference Adjourns

Saturday, March 19, 2022
09:00:00–10:20:00

Session: Networked Markets

Session: Network Games 1

10:20:00–10:40:00

Break

10:40:00–12:00:00

Session: Social Networks 1

Session: Network Games 2

12:00:00–13:20:00

Lunch

13:20:00–14:20:00

Session: Social Networks 2

Session: Learning and Information in Networks 1

14:20:00–14:40:00

Break

14:40:00–15:40:00

Session: Contagion in Networked Systems

Session: Learning and Information in Networks 2

15:40:00–16:00:00

Break

16:00:00–17:40:00

Session: Production Networks

Session: Social Networks 3

 

16:30:00–16:45:00

Break

17:40:00–18:30:00

Reception

18:30:00

Conference Dinner