Calendar

The reading group meetings will be every Thursday, from 12:30 to 13:30, in Meeting Room 1, Department of Economics, San Giobbe.
A compact verison of the calendar is available here.


October 2018

  • Thursday 11th
    Paper: Mele (2017) - "A Structural Model of Dense Network Formation"
    Subject: introduction and model (Sections 1 and 2)
    Discussant: Matteo Iacopini
  • Thursday 18th
    Paper: Mele (2017) - "A Structural Model of Dense Network Formation"
    Subject: model (Section 2 + Appendix A)
    (side paper): Tamer (2003) - "Incomplete Simultaneous Discrete Response Model with Multiple Equilibria"
    Discussant: Carlo Santagiustina
  • Thursday 25th
    Paper: Mele (2017) - "A Structural Model of Dense Network Formation"
    Subject: asymptotic results (Section 3)
    Discussant: Ovielt Baltodano and Stefano Tonellato

November 2018

  • Thursday 8th
    Paper: Mele (2017) - "A Structural Model of Dense Network Formation"
    Subject: simulation and inference (Section 4)
    Discussant: Giulia Carallo
  • Thursday 15th
    Paper: Golub & Jackson (2012) - "How Homophily Affects the Speed of Learning and Best-Response Dynamics"
    Subject: introduction, general setup
    Discussant: Luo Chenghong
  • Thursday 22nd
    Paper: Golub & Jackson (2012) - "How Homophily Affects the Speed of Learning and Best-Response Dynamics"
    Subject: updating process
    Discussant: whole group
  • Thursday 29th
    Paper: Golub & Jackson (2012) - "How Homophily Affects the Speed of Learning and Best-Response Dynamics"
    Subject: sections 3-4
    Discussant: Pietro Dindo

December 2018

  • no meetings

January 2019

  • Thursday 10th
    Paper: Schennach (2018) - "Long Memory via Networking"
    Subject: VAR and Long memory (Sections 2-3)
    Discussant: Roberto Casarin