Selected Topics on Economic Networks

Lecturer: Ruichi Xiong (熊瑞驰, Assistant Professor, Wuhan University)

Weekday: Tue

Time: 10:40-12:15

Venue: A14-203

Zoom: 518 868 7656

Password: BIMSA

Introduction

This course introduced a few selected topics on economic networks in four lectures, with a focus on production networks.

Syllabus

Tentative Schedule

1. Basic Graph Theory and Production Network Primer

(1) “Social and Economic Networks”, Matthew O. Jackson., 2008, Princeton University Press, Ch. 1,2,3.

(2) “Networks, Crowds, and Markets”, David Easley and Jon Kleinberg., 2010, Cambridge University Press, Ch. 1, 2.

(3) “Production Networks: A Primer”, Carvalho and Tahbaz-Salehi., 2019, Annual Review of Economics.

2. Production Networks and Heterogeneity

(1) “The Origins of Firm Heterogeneity: A Production Network Approach”, 2022, JPE

(2) “The Comparative Advantage of Firms”, 2022, JPE

(3) “Matching and Agglomeration: Theory and Evidence from Japanese Firm-to-Firm Trade”, 2024, Econometrica

(4) “Two-Sided Search in International Markets”, 2025, R&R JPE

3. Production Networks and Labor Markets

(1) “O-ring Production Networks”, 2024, JPE

(2) “Worker Mobility in Production Networks”, 2025, RES

(3) “Job Ladder over Production Networks”, 2025, Working Paper

(4) “Inventor Mobility, Knowledge Diffusion, and Growth”, 2025, Working Paper

4. Innovation and Learning in Production Networks

(1) “Network Structure and the Aggregation of Information: Theory and Evidence from Indonesia”, 2016, AER

(2) “Estimation of Learning, Adoption and Diffusion over a Network”, 2019, Working Paper

(3) “Production Networks and R&D Misallocation”, 2025, Working Paper

(4) “Learning in Firm-to-Firm Trade”, 2025, Working Paper