Topics in Economic Theory (A1, 2017)

OYAMA Daisuke
oyama@e.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Tuesday, Friday 10:25-12:10
First session September 26
Class room 203

In this course, we read papers on networks.
Paticipants take turns to present papers from the list (free-riding is not allowed). We do not attempt to read many papers, but rather focus on a small number of papers. Presenters should discuss the assigned paper in detail.

Papers

  1. S. Morris (2000). ``Contagion,'' Review of Economic Studies 67, 57-78.
  2. D. Oyama and S. Takahashi (2015). ``Contagion and Uninvadability in Local Interaction Games: The Bilingual Game and General Supermodular Games,'' Journal of Economic Theory 157, 100-127.
  3. C. Ballester, A. Calvo-Armengol and Y. Zenou (2006), ``Who's Who in Networks. Wanted: The Key Player,'' Econometrica 74, 1403-1417. (Matsushita)
  4. D. Acemoglu, V. M. Carvalho, A. Ozdaglar, and A. Tahbaz-Salehi (2012), ``The Network Origins of Aggregate Fluctuations,'' Econometrica 80, 1977-2016. (Komatsu, Kawahara)
  5. D. Acemoglu, A. Ozdaglar, and A. Tahbaz-Salehi (2015), ``Systemic Risk and Stability in Financial Networks,'' American Economic Review 105, 564-608. (Shi)
  6. M. Elliott, B. Golub, and M. O. Jackson (2014), ``Financial Networks and Contagion,'' American Economic Review 104, 3115-3153. (Yu, Katayama)
  7. A. Cabrales, P. Gottardi, and F. Vega-Redondo (2017), ``Risk Sharing and Contagion in Networks,'' Review of Financial Studies 30, 3086-3127. (Sato)
  8. B. Golub and S. Morris (2017), ``Expectations, Networks, and Conventions.'' (Kishishita)

Schedule

Date Paper Presenter
9/26 (Tue) Introduction, Review on nennegative matrices
9/29 (Fri) Review on nennegative matrices
10/3 (Tue) Morris (2000), Oyama and Takahashi (2015)
10/6 (Fri) Ballester et al. (2006) Matsushita
10/10 (Tue) Ballester et al. (2006) Matsushita
10/13 (Fri) (No class)
10/17 (Tue) Acemoglu et al. (2012) Komatsu, Kawahara
10/20 (Fri) Acemoglu et al. (2012) Komatsu, Kawahara
10/24 (Tue) Acemoglu et al. (2015) Shi
10/27 (Fri) Acemoglu et al. (2015)
Elliott et al. (2014)
Shi
Yu, Katayama
10/31 (Tue) Elliott et al. (2014) Yu, Katayama
11/3 (Fri)
Elliott et al. (2014)
Cabrales et al. (2017)
Yu, Katayama
Sato
11/7 (Tue) Golub and Morris (2017) Kishishita
11/10 (Fri) (No class)

Slides

Office hours

Friday 14:00-15:30
Economics Research Building 10th floor, 1012

Class schedule

No class on 10/13, 11/10
Makeup class on 11/3, 10:00- at 第4共同研究室 (10th floor)

Notice

We will continue as an informal stduy group in A2 term.