Econometrics of Networks

Networks play an increasingly dominant role in many social, business, and economic environments. Moreover, network data becomes increasingly relevant and available due to the rise of online social media and digitisation.
The online course consists of three days in which you will practice the material of the lectures in the morning with tutorials in the afternoon using exercises that will be implemented in Matlab.

Course leader

Michael D. König

Target group

The course will be accessible to advanced undergraduate and graduate students as well as practitioners from related fields.

Apart from Bachelor's and Master's students, we also welcome PhD staff to apply to the course.

If you have doubts about your eligibility for the course, please contact us: graduatewinterschool@vu.nl.

Course aim

Upon successful completion of the course, students will:

Become acquainted with different statistical methodologies for analysing networks while learning how to see these different methodologies complementing each other.
Learn to model network problem situations mathematically, and adapt the methods learned to new situations at hand.
Be able to recognise, understand, and analyse societal and business problems in which networks are central.
Learn how networks affect supply and demand in markets, how this leads to market failures, and how government policies can address these.