Colloquia Series
Wednesday & Friday, 5 & 7 April 2006
Monday, 10 April 2006
Wednesday, 31 May 2006
Tuesday, 27 June 2006
Wednesday & Friday, 5 & 7 April 2006
Test connection and Kick-off Videoconference
Participating institutions: Netherlands: Universiteit van Amsterdam, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; USA: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, World Bank Headquarters in Washington, DC; China:, World Bank Country Office in Beijing, Tsinghua Univeristy, Peking University
- Photo Impression
Monday, 10 April 2006
Cambridge Colloquium on Complexity and Social Networks (CCCSN)
Participating institutions: USA: Harvard University; Netherlands: Universiteit van Amsterdam, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Universiteit Twente
The abstract and videoconference are based on a draft chapter for the forthcoming book, The Missing Links: Formation and Decay of Economic Networks, by James Rauch
Abstract: In our model workers leave their former employers to become entrepreneurs, and found new firms by partnering with former colleagues or with workers who left a different employer. The first types of partnerships create clusters and the second types create bridges. Formation of bridge partnerships requires greater effort, and in equilibrium bridge partnerships yield greater profits on average than cluster partnerships. This pattern of network formation is shown to create community border effects in trade. It is also shown that less than the socially optimal amount of effort is devoted to formation of bridge partnerships. Policies to improve this situation are analyzed, including enforcement of restrictive employment contracts that affect the incentive to form cluster partnerships. Extensions of the model to two rounds of partnership formation and to two rounds of production generate additional effects of intra- and inter-firm networks on profits of individual entrepreneurs and on inter-community trade.
James Rauch is a professor economics at the University of California, San Diego. His areas of research include International Trade, Economic Growth and Development, Urban Economics and Labor. His most recent book is Leading Issues in Economic Development, 8th edition (with Gerald M. Meier), New York:Oxford University Press, 2005. He received his BA from Princeton University May and his Ph.D. in Economics from Yale University. More information can be found at his website: http://weber.ucsd.edu/~jrauch/
Prof. James Rauch University of California at San Diego |
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Clusters and Bridges in Networks of Entrepreneurs |
Audio Lecture | Slide Presentation, Fig.1, Fig.2, Fig.3 |
Wednesday, 31 May 2006
Global Development Learning Network Dialogue
Participating institutions: Netherlands: Universiteit van Amsterdam; USA: World Bank Headquarters in Washington, DC; Finland: Univeristy of Turku; Other locations in Europe
Dr. Pieter Terhorst Universiteit van Amsterdam |
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Dutch National Urban Economic Growth Strategy |
Video impression | Slide Presentation, Background Paper |
Tuesday, 27 June 2006
Project Meeting
Participating institutions: Netherlands: University of Amsterdam, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Universiteit Twente; Finland: University of Turku; China: Peking University
- Discussion Document
