The anticipation of a future bailout of distressed firms worsens ex ante adverse selection, causing a market freeze at present and inviting government intervention ("bailout trap"). When firms of heterogenous qualities raise financing, high-quality firms are willing to bear adverse selection...

The purpose of the conference is to provide an international discussion forum for research in economics and management of networks. Theoretical, conceptual and empirical papers from all areas in ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT OF NETWORKS (franchising, retail and service chains, cooperatives, financial...

Social network analysis is focused on uncovering the patterning of people's interaction. Network analysis is based on the intuitive notion that the patterns of social structure are important features of the lives of the individuals who display them. Network analysts believe that how an...

The purpose of the workshop is to provide a platform for researchers from all backgrounds who seek to enrich, refine, and challenge our understanding of the causes and consequences of risky behavior, and to help design policies that would mitigate the costs associated with these behavior. With...

We invite researchers to submit papers or extended abstracts to the 6th Economics of Media Bias Workshop. Organized by the eponymous research network, the workshop will be a platform to discuss current research, exchange ideas, and explore new collaboration scenarios. As a group of economists...

Technological change is reshaping the structure of economic networks within and across countries. Recent unprecedented and extreme shocks such as the COVID-19 pandemic question the resiliency of modern economic networks. The conference seeks proposals exploring the consequences of...

Like many forms of economic exchange, the process of matching workers to jobs has rapidly migrated online in the last two decades. Thus, understanding how online labor matching mechanisms work; how they affect economic outcomes like employment, wages and inequality; and learning how to take...

Environmental decisions are often complex and multifaceted and involve many different stakeholders with different priorities or objectives. Multicriteria decision analysis (MCDA) tools can be applied to assess value judgments of individual decision makers or multiple stakeholders regarding the...

The conference brings together researchers and practitioners from the social sciences in the broad sense as well as statistics, computer science, data science, physics, economics, humanities, and other areas dealing with social networks.

MATCH-UP 2022 is co-located with MFCS 2022 (47th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science). Matching problems with preferences occur in widespread applications such as the assignment of school-leavers to universities, junior doctors to hospitals, students to campus...