The Economics of Networks Research Unit at Centre for Economic and Regional Studies of Hungarian Academy of Sciences is pleased to announce the workshop on “Networks, Complexity, and Economic Development”.
Networks are one of the central challenges of today’s science and the analysis of large-scale social networks integrates scholars from a wide variety of sciences in understanding complex social and economic phenomena. The workshop aims to establish a platform for interdisciplinary discussions focusing on economic development.
Invited talks
Cesar A. Hidalgo, MIT
“Why Information Grows: The Evolution of Order, from Atoms to Economies”
“The shapes of the city: new computational methods to understand urban perception, gentrification, and economic agglomerations at the neighborhood scale” (with Edward Glaeser)
Ádám Szeidl, CEU and CEPR
“Interfirm Relationships and Business Performance” (with Jing Cai)
Balázs Vedres, CEU
“Fragility in European economic integration: Lessons from the network of inter-industries flow data”
Call
We invite PhD students, and early career researchers from economics, sociology, geography, computational social science, and network science to present a paper and discuss future research. Interested fellows from other fields might submit an abstract as well. Papers that address the following topics are particularly (but not exclusively) welcome:
- Economics of social networks
- Dynamics of large scale economic networks
- Innovation and spreading
- Human mobility and networks
- Networks of international trade
- Proximity and economic development
- Social networks and performance
The workshop is open to the public; however, due to place limitations, registration is required.
Dates
- Abstract submission: 19 October 2015
- Notification of acceptance: 26 October 2015
- Registration: 16 November 2015
- Workshop: 30 November – 1 December 2015