Matthew O. Jackson

William D. Eberle Professor of Economics

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Recent Working Papers 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 .

Networks and Social Economics

• ``Identifying the Roles of Choice and Chance in Network Formation: Racial Biases in High School Friendships,'' with Sergio Currarini and Paolo Pin. September 2009. To be posted soon.
  

• ``An Overview of Social Networks and Economic Applications,'' July 2009, forthcoming in the The Handbook of Social Economics, edited by J. Benhabib, A. Bisin, and M.O. Jackson, Elsevier Press.
  

• ``Social Structure, Segregation, and Economic Behavior,'' presented as the Nancy Schwartz Memorial Lecture 2007 Download schwartzlecture.pdf or schwartzlecture.eps
  

• ``How Homophily affects Diffusion and Learning in Networks'' with Benjamin Golub, November 2008, revised August 2009. Download homophily.pdf or for the original arxiv version: http://arxiv.org/abs/0811.4013 [physics.soc-ph].
  

• ``Average Distance, Diameter, and Clustering in Social Networks with Homophily,'' arXiv:0810.2603v1 [physics.soc-ph], in the Proceedings of the Workshop in Internet and Network Economics (WINE 2008), Lecture Notes in Computer Science edited by C. Papadimitriou and S. Zhang, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, 2008. Download http://arxiv.org/abs/0810.2603 or largeworlds-arxiv-0810.2603v1.pdf.
  

• ``Peer Pressure,'' with Antoni Calvo-Armengol, forthcoming in the Journal of the European Economic Association Download peerpressure.eps or peerpressure.pdf.
  

• ``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.
  

• ``Naive Learning in Social Networks: Convergence, Influence and the Wisdom of Crowds,'' with Benjamin Golub, forthcoming in American Economic Journal: Microecnomics. Download naivelearning.eps or naivelearning.pdf.
  

• ``Network Games,'' with Andrea Galeotti, Sanjeev Goyal, Fernando Vega-Redondo, and Leeat Yariv, forthcoming in the Review of Economic Studies Download http://www.restud.com/uploads/papers/MS%2012213-2%20manuscript.pdf.
  

Voting/Social Choice/Political Economy

• ``The Role of a Status Quo and Compromise in Dynamic Voting,'' with Salvador Barbera, coming soon.
  

• ``Disclosure of Information, Deliberation, and Voting,'' coming soon.
  

• ``The Reasons for Wars - an Updated Survey,'' with Massimo Morelli, forthcoming in the Handbook on the Political Economy of War edited by Chris Coyne, Elgar Publishing.
  

• ``Strategic Militarization, Deterrence and War between Nations,'' with Massimo Morelli, forthcoming in the Quarterly Journal of Political Science Download gunsbutter.eps or gunsbutter.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 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geb.2008.02.004
  

• ``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.
  

Various Surveys

• ``An Overview of Social Networks and Economic Applications,'' July 2009, forthcoming in the The Handbook of Social Economics, edited by J. Benhabib, A. Bisin, and M.O. Jackson, Elsevier Press.
  

• ``The Reasons for Wars - an Updated Survey,'' with Massimo Morelli, forthcoming in the Handbook on the Political Economy of War edited by Chris Coyne, Elgar Publishing.
  

• ``Social Structure, Segregation, and Economic Behavior,'' presented as the Nancy Schwartz Memorial Lecture 2007 Download schwartzlecture.pdf or schwartzlecture.eps
  

• ``Diffusion, Strategic Interaction, and Social Structure,'' with Leeat Yariv, April 2008, forthcoming in the Handbook of Social Economics (edited by Benhabib, Bisin, Jackson), Elsevier.
  

• ``Networks and Economic Behavior,'' in the The Annual Review of Economics, Vol. 1, pages 489-513, January 2009.
  

• ``The Study of Social Networks In Economics,'' in The Missing Links: Formation and Decay of Economic Networks, edited by James E. Rauch; Russell Sage Foundation, 2007.
  

• ``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.
  

• ``A Survey of Models of Network Formation: Stability and Efficiency,'' Chapter 1 in Group Formation in Economics; Networks, Clubs and Coalitions , edited by Gabrielle Demange and Myrna Wooders, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge U.K., 2004.
  

• ``Mechanism Theory, In the Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems, edited by Ulrich Derigs, in the, EOLSS Publishers: Oxford UK, 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.
  

• ``A Crash Course in Implementation Theory,'' Social Choice and Welfare, Vol. 18, No. 4, 2001, pp 655-708.