"Sound knowledge of rigorous probability and statistics methods is essential to pursue graduate studies in economics. These sorts of tools are largely required to conduct research in modern fields of economics such as economic theory, empirical economics, experimental economics, or data science...

We study friendship networks under the assumption that agents are constrained in their efforts to build up links. Using a fairly general model, we investigate the relation between the prevailing (exogenous) assortative interests and the (endogenous) homophilic degrees of friendship patterns, and...

We study friendship networks under the assumption that people are constrained to build the qualities of their relations. We investigate the connection between (exogenous) assor- tative interests and (endogenous) homophilic patterns, and its welfare implications. Un- der a simple link formation...

This paper considers a population of agents that are engaged in a listening network. The agents wish to match their actions to the true value of some uncertain (exogenous) parameter and to the actions of the other agents. Each agent begins with some initial information about the parameter and,...

This paper considers a population of agents that are engaged in a listening network. The agents wish to match their actions to the true value of some uncertain (exogenous) parameter and to the actions of the other agents. Each agent begins with some initial information about the parameter and,...