Conviviality and networking
(aka: coordination, herding, information cascades, network effects, fashion goods)
3 Feb:
The first day, when nothing happens.
10 Feb:
Information cascades
¤ Banerjee, 92: "A simple model of herd behavior",
Jstor,
notes by Viplav Saini
¤ Bikhchandani, Hirshleifer, Welch, 92: "A Theory of Fads, Fashion, Custom, and Cultural Change as
Informational Cascades",
Jstor,
notes by Kevin Thom
17 Feb:
Network effects
¤ Choi, 1997: "Herd Behavior, the 'Penguin Effect,' and the Suppression of Informational Diffusion: An Analysis of
Informational Externalities and Payoff Interdependency"
Jstor,
notes by Dan Britton
24 Feb:
Jury theorems
¤ Feddersen & Pesendorfer 1998: Convicting the Innocent Jstor, notes by Viplav Saini
¤ Duggan & Martinelli 1998: "A Bayesian model of voting in juries", GEB
PDF, notes by Kevin Thom
¤ A short lit review of jury papers by Dan Britton
¤ optional bonus paper: Austen-Smith and Banks, 1996: "Information Aggregation, Rationality, and the Condorcet Jury Theorem",
Jstor
3 March:
U(t,k) models
¤ Brock & Durlauf 2001: "Discrete Choice with Social Interactions"
Jstor,
notes by Steffen Reinhold
¤ Me, 2003, "Preferences with a social component", PDF
(Perhaps a digression on leptokurtosis)
10 March:
The GSS model.
¤ Glaeser, Sacerdote, Scheinkman, 1996: "Crime and social interactions",
Jstor
(Spring break)
¤ optional Spring paper: Pesendorfer, 1995: "Design Innovation and Fashion Cycles",
Jstor
24 March:
Politics
¤ Schuessler 2000
¤ Callander, 2004: Bandwagons and Momentum in Sequential Voting, PDF,
notes by Viplav Saini
29 March:
The transition week
¤ H Peyton Young, 1999: "Diffusion in Social Networks",
PDF
¤ Young and Burke, 2001: "Competition and Custom in Economic Contracts",
Jstor
7 April:
A week off.
14 April:
Networks
¤ Duncan Watts, 2003: Small Worlds. Notation sheet, a sort of overview
21 April:
¤ Matthew O Jackson, forthcoming: "A Survey of Models of Network Formation: Stability and Efficiency,"
netsurv.pdf
28 April:
Computer fun! The slides; the fun
5 May:
More computer fun! Or for more, check out some courses at George Mason