WORKING GROUP ON FORMATION AND DECAY OF ECONOMIC NETWORKS

Meeting on Social Learning, December 8, 2003
Russell Sage Foundation, New York, NY

Agenda

8:30 am         Continental breakfast

8:55 am         Introductions and Opening Remarks

9:00 am         "Learning About an Old Technology: Experimental Evidence from Fertilizer in Western Kenya"
                      Esther Duflo, Department of Economics, MIT

10:00 am        Discussion

10:30 am        Break

11:00 am        "Learning and Rule Enforcement"
                        Paul Ingram, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto

Noon               Discussion

12:30 pm         Lunch

1:30 pm           "Network Models of Innovation and Diffusion"
                        Peyton Young, Brookings Institution

2:30 pm           Discussion

3:00 pm           Break

3:30 pm           "A Network Model of Public Goods: Experimentation and Social Learning"
                        Yann Bramoullé, LEERNA - IRNA, University of Toulouse
                        Rachel Kranton, Department of Economics, University of Maryland

4:30 pm           Break

5:00 pm           "How Different Are Firms and Markets Really? Career and Network Patterns Before and After the Collapse of the Hollywood Studio System"
                         [See "The Market as Social Structure?  Collaborative Relationships in the Feature Film Industry, 1933-1995", Concluding Meeting]
                         Ezra Zuckerman, Sloan School of Management, MIT

6:00 pm           Break

7:00 pm           Dinner

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