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Marco van der Leij

Welcome to my homepage. I am a University Lecturer at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Cambridge during the course year 2009/2010. I am also an Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics of the University of Alicante (currently on leave). My primary interest, both theoretically and empirically, is in the field of Network Economics.

I organized a Conference on the Empirical Analysis of Networks, which took place at the University of Alicante on 26th and 27th of May, 2008. Co-organizers were Sanjeev Goyal and Fernando Vega-Redondo. You can still have a look at the program, papers and slides on the conference webpage.

Personal Data

Full name:	Marco J. van der Leij
Titles:	Dr.
Affiliation:	Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge
Address:	Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge CB3 9DD, United Kingdom
Room:	Austin Robinson Building, Room 44
Phone:	+44 1223 335207
Fax:	+44 1223 335475
Email:	mjv25@cam.ac.uk (Cambridge) and vanderleij@merlin.fae.ua.es (Alicante)
C.V.	My CV can be downloaded here

Research

Publications

Network Economics

· Fafchamps, M., S. Goyal & M.J. van der Leij (2010), 'Matching and Network Effects', Journal of the European Economic Association, forthcoming. [Final Version][Working Paper]

· Goyal, S., M.J. van der Leij & J.L. Moraga-Gonzalez (2006), 'Economics: An Emerging Small World', Journal of Political Economy, 114(2), 403-412. [Article][Long Version][Working Paper]

Financial Econometrics

· Franses, Ph.H., M.J. van der Leij & R. Paap (2008), 'A Simple Test for GARCH Against a Stochastic Volatility Model', Journal of Financial Econometrics, 6(3), 291-306. [Article]

· Franses, Ph.H., M.J. van der Leij & R. Paap (2002), 'Modelling and forecasting level shifts in absolute returns', Journal of Applied Econometrics, 17(5), 601-616. [Article] [Working Paper] [Programs]

Work in Progress

Network Economics

· Risk Aversion and Networks: Microfoundations for Network Formation (with Jaromir Kovarik) [Last version (October 2009)]

· Strong Ties in a Small World (with Sanjeev Goyal) [Last version (December 2009)]

· A Social Network Analysis of Occupational Segregation (with Sebi Buhai) [Last version (Mar 2008)]

· Preferential Attachment and Individual Heterogeneity (with Marcel Fafchamps and Sanjeev Goyal)

· Bounded Rationality vs. Incomplete Information in Network Games (with Coralio Ballester and Giovanni Ponti)

· Social Networks and the Ethnic Wage Gap (with Ott Toomet and Meredith Rolfe)

Network Industries

· Competing Transport Networks [Last version (Feb 2003)]

Teaching

2009-2010

Undergraduates Part IIA Economics, University of Cambridge

· Paper 1 Microeconomics: General Equilibrium & Welfare Economics

Diploma in Economics, University of Cambridge

· Paper 1 Microeconomics

2008-2009

Ph.D. Program Economics, University of Alicante

· Microeconomics II

· Social Networks

2007-2008

Ph.D. Program Economics, University of Alicante

· Social Networks

2006-2007

Ph.D. Program Economics, University of Alicante

· Microeconomics II

Links

Here are links to the homepages of some scientific researchers working on networks or segregation.

Adam Szeidl Adrien Vigier Alan Kirman Albert-Laszlo Barabási Ana Babus Andrea Galeotti Anne van den Nouweland Antonio Cabrales Bhaskar Dutta Brian Rogers Debraj Ray Duncan Watts Eleonora Patacchini Fernando Vega-Redondo Francis Bloch Giorgio Topa Glenn Ellison Iwan Barankay Jacob Goeree James Montgomery Joan de Marti Joel Sobel Jon Kleinberg Jordi Blanes-i-Vidal Jose Luis Moraga Jose Scheinkman Jukka-Pekka Onnela Kaivan Munshi Lada Adamic LungFei Lee Marcel Fafchamps Mark Newman Mark Handcock Markus Mobius Matthew Jackson Michael Macy Nicholas Christakis Nicholas Economides Nick Vriend Paolo Pin Rachel Kranton Robin Cowan Roman Chuhay Samuel Bowles Sanjeev Goyal Steven Durlauf Sumit Joshi Ted Mouw Timothy Conley Tom Snijders Willemien Kets Yann Bramoullé Yannis Ioannides Yves Zenou