INET Financial and Economic Networks Conference – August 14-15, 2013

August  14, Wednesday

9:30 – 10:00 am	Gathering & refreshments
10:00 – 10:15 am	Opening Remarks
10:15 – 11:15 am	Seth Richards-Shubik (Carnegie Mellon University) “Sovereign Debt Crises and International Financial Contagion: Estimating Effects in an Endogenous Network” (Slides), coauthored with Brent Glover
11:15 am – 12:15 pm	Michael Gofman (UW- Madison) “Efficiency and Stability of a Financial Architecture with Too Interconnected to Fail Institutions”
12:15 – 1:15 pm	Lunch
1:15 – 2:15 pm	Matt Elliott (Caltech University) “Financial Networks and Contagion”, coauthored with Benjamin Golub and Matthew O. Jackson
2:15 – 3:15 pm	Daniele Condorelli (University of Essex) “Selling Through Referrals”, coauthored with Andrea Galeotti and  Vasiliki Skreta
3:15 – 3:30 pm	Break
3:30 – 4:30 pm	Maryam Farboodi (University of Chicago) “On the Formation of Financial Networks”
4:30 – 5:30 pm	Steven Durlauf (UW-Madison) “Linear Social Interactions Models”, coauthored with Lawrence Blume, William Brock, and Raji Jayaraman
6:00pm	Dinner
August 15, Thursday
8:30 – 9:00 am	Breakfast (Grainger Hall 3070)
9:00 – 10:00 am	Christian Opp (Wharton) “Adverse Selection and Intermediation Chains”, coauthored with Vincent Glode
10:00 – 10:15 am	Break
10:15 – 11:15 am	Marzena Rostek (UW-Madison) “Decentralized Exchange”, coauthored with Semyon Malamud
11:15 am – 12:15 pm	Ana Babus (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago) “Trading and Information Diffusion in Over-the-Counter Markets”, coauthored with Peter Kondor
12:15 – 1:30 pm	Lunch (Executive Dining Room)
1:30 – 2:30 pm	Syngjoo Choi (University College London) “Trading in Networks: Theory and Experiment”, coauthored with Andrea Galeotti and Sanjeev Goyal
2:30 – 3:30 pm	C. Matthew Leister (Berkeley) “Trading Networks and Equilibrium Intermediation”, coauthored with Maciej H. Kotowski.
3:30– 3:40 pm	Closing remarks

Conference location:  Wisconsin School of Business, Grainger Hall 3070, 975 University Ave.,

Madison, WI 53706

Organizers: Michael Gofman

Sponsors: Institute for New Economic Thinking, Wisconsin School of Business