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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
9:15 am - 9:30 am
Opening remarks
9:30 am - 10:00 am
A Model of Online Misinformation; Naive and Bayesian Learning with Misinformation Policies
10:00 am - 10:30 am
In Platforms We Trust: Misinformation on Social Networks In the Presence of Social Mistrust
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:30 am
Subscription, Verification, and Disclosure in News Subscription Services
11:30 am - 12:00 pm
False Information from Near and Far
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch Break
1:30 pm - 2:00 pm
Organizing Modular Production
2:00 pm - 2:30 pm
An Equilibrium Model of Learning on Networks
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Coffee Break
3:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Learning in Networks with Idiosyncratic Agents
3:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Optimal Inspection of Rumors in Networks
4:00 pm
Conference Adjourns
Saturday, March 19, 2022
9:00 am - 10:20 am

Session: Networked Markets

Session: Network Games 1

10:20 am - 10:40 am
Break
10:40 am - 12:00 pm

Session: Social Networks 1

Session: Network Games 2

12:00 pm - 1:20 pm
Lunch
1:20 pm - 2:20 pm

Session: Social Networks 2

Session: Learning and Information in Networks 1

2:20 pm - 2:40 pm
Break
2:40 pm - 3:40 pm

Session: Contagion in Networked Systems

Session: Learning and Information in Networks 2

3:40 pm - 4:00 pm
Break
4:00 pm - 5:40 pm

Session: Production Networks

Session: Social Networks 3

 

4:30 pm - 4:45 pm
Break
5:40 pm - 6:30 pm
Reception
6:30 pm
Conference Dinner

Registration

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