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Matthew O. Jackson

Eberle Professor of Economics

Matthew Jackson

Contact Info:

jacksonm@stanford.edu
http://www.stanford.edu/~jacksonm/
Page in Stanford Directory

Phone: 650-723 3544

Office: Landau 241

Office hours: By email appointment

Curriculum Vitae

Interests

  • Research: Microeconomics, game theory, social networks, political economy
  • Current Research: The economics of social networks; the design and properties of political institutions; arms races and war; implementation and mechanism design
  • Teaching: Microeconomic theory and political economy
  • Professional Affiliations:

    American Economic Association, Econometric Society (Fellow), Game Theory Society, Society for Social Choice and Welfare

Recent Publications

(1) “On the Weight of Nations: Assigning Voting Power to Heterogeneous Voters” (with Salvador Barbera) Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 114, No.2, pp.317-339, 2006

(2) “Existence of Equilibria in Single and Double Auctions” (with Jeroen Swinkels) Econometrica, Vol. 73, No. 1 pp. 93-139, 2005

(3) “The Effects of Social Networks on Employment and Inequality” (with Antoni Calvo- Armengol) American Economic Review, Vol. 94, No. 3, pp. 426-454, June 2004

(4) “A Strategic Mode of Social and Economic Networks” (with Asher Wolinsky) Journal of Economic Theory, Vol. 71, pp. 44-74, 1996

(5) “Bayesian Implementation,” Econometrica, Vol. 59, pp. 461-477, 1991

List of Stanford Working Papers

Current Courses

Spring

ECON 204 Core Economics - Modules 9 and 10

ECON 291 Social and Economic Networks

Education

Ph.D., (Business) Stanford University, B.A., (Economics) Princeton