Re­search Areas

Net­works are im­por­tant in many as­pects of our lives as they de­ter­mine our choices or be­hav­iors. Most de­ci­sions that peo­ple make are af­fected by the de­ci­sions of their friends: the de­ci­sion to buy a prod­uct, to work hard at school, to use a spe­cific tech­nol­ogy, to com­mit a crime, to be­have in a spe­cific way. The emerg­ing em­pir­i­cal lit­er­a­ture on those is­sues mo­ti­vates the the­o­ret­i­cal study of how net­work struc­tures af­fect in­di­vid­ual de­ci­sions. Dur­ing the last decade, net­work the­ory has been used in dif­fer­ent fields of eco­nom­ics: among oth­ers, ed­u­ca­tion, crime, labor and fi­nan­cial eco­nom­ics. 

Re­search fields of in­ter­est for the CTN Com­mu­nity have been sub­di­vided into 13 Re­search Areas, in order to help users to eas­ily find re­lated pub­li­ca­tions and posts:

• Bar­gain­ing the­ory
• Coali­tion for­ma­tion the­ory
• Co­op­er­a­tive game the­ory
• En­vi­ron­ment
• Ex­per­i­ments
• Game the­ory & graphs
• In­dus­trial Or­gan­i­sa­tion
• Match­ing
• Net­work for­ma­tion
• Net­work games
• Po­lit­i­cal econ­omy
• So­cial choice
• Trade the­ory