SITE - The Stanford Institute in Theoretical Economics
I direct
SITE, which is a series of
NSF funded conferences and workshops that are held at Stanford each summer.
The SITE web site is
http://www.stanford.edu/group/SITE/.
A call for papers is posted each year in mid January for the summer series that year, and
the programs for the various segments of the series is posted in May. The conference segments run from mid June through August.
Recent Unpublished and Forthcoming Research
A encapsulated postscript or a pdf file of the
following research
can be downloaded
by clicking the appropriate
highlights below.
Locations of published works appear
with links to the papers below. If you do not have access to a journal and would like
a reprint of a published paper for your own reading, please email me at
jacksonm@stanford.edu
.
A Book on Networks
I have written a book entitled ``Social and Economic Networks,'' which is intended as a guide for researchers in the area and a text for graduate courses
on the subject. It is forthcoming from Princeton University Press and will be available in July of 2008.
You can see the table of contents and the introductory chapter at
netbook.pdf or
netbook.eps.
Here are the Princeton University Press and
Amazon pages for the book.
``Diffusion, Strategic Interaction, and Social Structure,'' with Leeat Yariv, April 2008,
forthcoming in the Handbook of Social Economics (edited by Benhabib, Bisin, Jackson), Elsevier.
Download
diffusionchapter.eps or
diffusionchapter.pdf.
``Social Networks in Economics,'' June 2008,
forthcoming in the Handbook of Social Economics (edited by Benhabib, Bisin, Jackson), Elsevier.
Download
socialnetchapter.eps or
socialnetchapter.pdf.
``Naive Learning in Social Networks: Convergence, Influence and the Wisdom of Crowds,''
with Benjamin Golub, January 2007, revised April 2008.
Download
naivelearning.eps or
naivelearning.pdf.
``Network Games,''
with Andrea Galeotti, Sanjeev Goyal, Fernando Vega-Redondo, and Leeat Yariv, January 2006, revised May 2008.
Download
networkgames.eps or
networkgames.pdf.
``Strategic Militarization, Deterrence and War between Nations,''
with Massimo Morelli, June 2007, revised May 2008.
Download
gunsbutter.eps or
gunsbutter.pdf.
``Vote Buying: Legislatures and Lobbying,''
with Eddie Dekel and Asher Wolinsky, July 2006, revised April 2008.
Download
votebuyII.eps or
votebuyII.pdf.
``Mixed Strategy Equilibrium and Deep Covering in Multidimensional Electoral
Competition,''
with John Duggan, preliminary: January 2004, under revision.
Download
mseuc.eps or
mseuc.pdf.
Mechanism Design, Implementation, Auctions, and Game Theory
``Social Games: Matching and the Play of Finitely Repeated Games,''
with Alison Watts, forthcoming in Games and Economic Behavior.
Download
match.pdf.
``Jump Bidding and Budget Constraints in All-Pay
Auctions and Wars of Attrition,''
with Eddie Dekel and Asher Wolinsky, November 2006.
Download
allpay.eps or
allpay.pdf.
``Nonexistence of Equilibria in Auctions with
both Private and Common Values''
April 1999, revised September 2005.
Download
nonexist.eps or
nonexist.pdf.
``The Role of Responsibility in
Strategic Risk-taking,''
with Gary Charness, forthcoming in The Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization.
Download
netgroup-responsibility.pdf.
``The Economics of Social Networks,''
Chapter 1 in Volume I of Advances in Economics and Econometrics, Theory and Applications: Ninth World Congress of the Econometric Society, edited by
Richard Blundell, Whitney Newey, and Torsten Persson, Cambridge University
Press, 2006.
``Network Formation,''
in The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics and the Law
, MacMillan Press, 2008.
``The Stability
and Efficiency of Economic and Social Networks,''
in Advances in Economic Design, edited by Murat Sertel and Semih
Koray,
Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg
2003;
reprinted in Networks and Groups: Models of Strategic Formation,
edited by
Bhaskar Dutta and Matthew O. Jackson,
Springer--Verlag, Heidelberg 2003.
I wrote some tips on cycling in time trials and triathlons for
some of our students who were doing it for a first time:
``Tips on Cycling in Time Trials and Triathlons''
April 2000, Download
cycling.eps or
cycling.pdf.
Ken Arrow and I organized a conference on social economics, with financial support from SIEPR and the KORET Foundation.
that took place on April 11 and 12, 2008 at Stanford.
``The Economics of Social Networks,''
Chapter 1 in Volume I of: Advances in Economics and Econometrics, Theory and Applications: Ninth World Congress of the Econometric Society, edited by
Richard Blundell, Whitney Newey, and Torsten Persson, Cambridge University
Press, 2006.
``The Economics of Small Worlds,''
with Brian Rogers, The Journal of the European Economic Association
(papers and proceedings), 3(2-3): 617-627, 2005.
``On the Formation of Networks and Groups,'' with Bhaskar
Dutta, in Networks and Groups: Models of Strategic Formation,
edited by
Bhaskar Dutta and Matthew O. Jackson, Springer--Verlag, Heidelberg 2003.
``The Stability
and Efficiency of Economic and Social Networks,''
in Advances in Economic Design, edited by Murat Sertel and Semih
Koray,
Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg
2003;
reprinted in Networks and Groups: Models of Strategic Formation,
edited by
Bhaskar Dutta and Matthew O. Jackson,
Springer--Verlag, Heidelberg 2003.
``Mechanism Theory,'' in Optimization and Operations Research,
edited by
Ulrich Derigs, in the Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems, EOLSS
Publishers:
Oxford UK,[http://www.eolss.net], 2003.
``The Stability and Efficiency of Directed
Communication Networks,''
with Bhaskar Dutta, Review of Economic Design, Vol. 5, No. 3, 2000,
pp
251--272,
reprinted in Networks and Groups: Models of Strategic Formation,
edited by
Dutta and Jackson, Springer--Verlag, Heidelberg 2003.
``Social
Learning in Recurring Games,'' with Ehud Kalai,
Games and Economic Behavior, Vol. 21, No. 1/2, 1997, pp 102-134,
reprinted in Social Organization and Mechanism Design, edited
by C. d'Aspremont, Francqui Foundation, 1998.
``A
Strategic Model of Social
and Economic Networks,'' with Asher Wolinsky,
Journal of Economic Theory, Vol. 71, No. 1, 1996, pp 44--74,
reprinted in Networks and Groups: Models of Strategic Formation,
edited by
Dutta and Jackson, Springer--Verlag, Heidelberg 2003.
``Bayesian
Implementation,''
Econometrica, Vol. 59, No. 2, 1991, pp 461-477, reprinted in
Recent
Developments in Game Theory, edited by Eric Maskin, 1999, Edward Elgar
Publishers.