Matthew O. Jackson

William D. Eberle Professor of Economics

• Office Address:

   Department of Economics, 579 Serra Mall 
  Stanford University, Stanford California 94305-6072, USA
   

• Office: 241 Landau
• Phone: (650) 723 3544
• Fax: (650) 725 5702
• E-mail: jacksonm@stanford.edu

Vita

Click vita.pdf to download a pdf version (or vita.eps for an encapsulated postscript version).

Books and Papers:

A Book on Networks

I have written a book entitled ``Social and Economic Networks,'' which synthesizes the literatures on the subject and is a resource for researchers in the area and a text for graduate courses. It is available Princeton University Press.
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.
Here are links to some reviews of the book: a review by David Krackhardt that appeared in Science Magazine in October 2009, a review by Joan de Marti that appeared in Regional Science and Urban Economics in September 2009, a review by Haris Aziz in the ACM SIGecom Exchanges in July 2009, a review by John Curran in the Mathematical Association of American Online in March 2009, and a review by Karoly Takacs in JASSS in March 2009.
If you are teaching a course using the book and would like access to solutions to some of the exercises, please email me (instructors only please).
A list of typos and clarifications is available at netbook-updates.pdf





• Working Papers and Forthcoming Research

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• Published Research

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  Click Here to Access Published Papers in Reverse Chronological Order
  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 .
  

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. The programs are available via the SITE web site http://www.stanford.edu/group/SITE/.

The NSF-CEME Decentralization Conference Series

I coordinate the NSF-CEME Decentralization Conference Series. The spring 2010 conference will be held from April 8 through 10 and is being organized by Jim Bergin of the University College Dublin and Tom Gresik of the University of Notre Dame, and will be jointly sponsored by these universities and the NSF-CEME. The conference will include milestone birthday celebrations of John Ledyard and Mark Satterthwaite, two long-term and prominent contributors to the series. The conference website is http://www.nd.edu/~tgresik/Decentralization.html. More information on the Decentralization series can be found on the web site http://www.stanford.edu/~jacksonm/Decentralization.html.

Syllabi

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Odds, Ends, and Relics

A Prize and Special Issue in Memory of Toni Calvo-Armengol:

• The Calvó-Armengol Prize has been set-up by the Government of Andorra, the "Fundació Credit Andorrá" and the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) to honor Toni's memory. Background and a call for nominations is at http://www.stanford.edu/~jacksonm/toni-prizeannouncement.pdf The inaugural prize has been awarded to Esther Duflo - Congratulations Esther! A press release is available here.
• Xavier Vives and I are co-editing a symposium of the Journal of the European Economic Association in memory of Toni. The submission deadline was June 30, 2008, and more information can be found at http://www.stanford.edu/~jacksonm/toni-specialissueannouncement.pdf The introduction can be found at http://www.stanford.edu/~jacksonm/toni-calvo-special-issue-introduction.pdf
• For a short overview of some of Toni's research contributions, here is a brief statement that I wrote for the Journal of Economic Theory: http://www.stanford.edu/~jacksonm/toni-research.pdf

Here are some press clippings and interviews:

• An interview by Romesh Vaitalingam of Vox about networks from January 09: http://www.voxeu.eu/index.php?q=node/3250
• An article ``Genes and the Friends You Make'' in the Wall Street Journal, January 27, 09: including some commentary about research by Fowler, Dawes and Christakis about genetic influences on social networks http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123302040874118079.html
• An Article in the Chicago Tribune from March 6, 2007: ``Mathematics of Friendships'' about co-authored work with Brian Rogers on friendship networks.

Congratulations to Leo Hurwicz, Eric Maskin and Roger Myerson for the 2007 Nobel Prize in Economics for their foundational work in the theories of mechanism design and implementation! Here is a short description of some of their contributions. (A much more extensive description written by the Prize Committee can be found at http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/2007/ecoadv07.pdf.)

• ``The Nobel Prize in Economics 2007'' Download nobelbackground-2007.pdf or nobelbackground-2007.eps.
  

Here is a paper about the workings of the NSF and writing NSF proposals that I wrote with Laura Razzolini.

• ``Postcards from the NSF'' June 2002, revised June 2003. Download nsfpost.eps or nsfpost.pdf.
  

I wrote some notes for our Ph.D. students regarding presenting research papers and seminars:

• ``Notes on Presenting a Paper'' Fall 1998, Download present.eps or present.pdf.
  

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.
  

I chaired the program committee for the Third World Congress of the Game Theory Society - GAMES 2008. The congress took place at Northwestern University from July 13 to 17, 2008.

• The final conference program is available at http://www.stanford.edu/~jacksonm/Games08-program.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 program can be found at http://www.stanford.edu/~jacksonm/socialeconconferenceprogram.pdf.

The Sixth International Meeting of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare was held at Caltech from July 11 to 14, 2002.

• Information about the meetings is available at the meeting web site http://www.stanford.edu/~jacksonm/SCW.html.
  

A Few Links

• The Santa Fe Institute - web site
  
• SITE - Stanford Institute in Theoretical Economics - web site
  
• The SISL - Social and Information Sciences Laboratory - web site
  
• The Lee Center for Advanced Networking
  
• ``Theoretical Economics'' web site
  
• The ``Not A Journal of Economics'' web site
  
• Economics working paper service of Washington University in St. Louis
  
• Home page papers in economics
  
• Jerry Kelly's social choice bibliography
  
• Leigh Tesfatsion's page on the Formation of Social and Economic Networks
  
• Rod Garratt and Guillaume Haeringer's page on Coalition Formation
  
• ESSET - European Summer Symposium on Economic Theory
  
• The Society for Social Choice and Welfare
  
• The Econometric Society
  
• The Game Theory Society
  

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