Sanjeev Goyal FBA is an Indian-British economist, best known for his pioneering research on networks. He is currently Arthur C. Pigou Professor of Economics at the

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and a Fellow of

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. He received a BA (Honours, 1983) from

Delhi University Delhi University (DU), formally the University of Delhi, is a collegiate central university located in New Delhi, India. It was founded in 1922 by an Act of the Central Legislative Assembly and is recognized as an Institute of Eminence (IoE) ...

and an MA (1989) and PhD (1990) from

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, all in economics. His book, ''Connections: an introduction to the economics of networks'', was published by Princeton University Press in 2007; his second book, ''Networks: An Economics Approach'', was published by MIT Press in 2023. Sanjeev Goyal is a

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and Fellow of the Econometric Society. He was the founding Director of the Cambridge-INET Institute (2012–2014) and Chair of the Cambridge Economics Faculty (2014–2018).

References

* V. Bala and S. Goyal (1998), Learning From Neighbors, ''Review of Economic Studies.'' * V. Bala and S. Goyal (2000), A Non-Cooperative Model of Network Formation, ''Econometrica.'' * S. Goyal and J.L. Moraga (2001), R&D Networks, ''RAND Journal.'' * S. Goyal and S. Joshi (2003), Networks of Collaboration in Oligopoly, ''Games and Econ Beh.'' * S. Goyal and F. Vega-Redondo (2005), Network formation and social coordination, ''Games and Econ Beh..'' * S.Goyal, M. vd Leij and J-L Moraga (2006), Economics: An Emerging Small World, ''Journal of Political Economy.'' * S. Goyal and F. Vega-Redondo (2007), Structural Holes in Social networks, ''Journal of Economic Theory.'' * A. Galeotti and S. Goyal (2009), Influencing and influencers: a theory of strategic diffusion, ''RAND Journal.'' * A. Galeotti, S. Goyal, M. Jackson, F. Vega-Redondo, L. Yariv (2010), Network Games, ''Review of Economic Studies.'' * A. Galeotti and S. Goyal (2010), The Law of the Few, ''American Economic Review.'' * S. Goyal and M. Kearns (2012), Competitive Contagion in Networks, ''Symposium on the Theory of Computing.'' * L. Ductor, M.Fafchamps, S. Goyal and M. v.d.Leij (2014), Social Networks & Research Output, ''Rev of Econ and Stats.'' * S. Goyal and A. Vigier (2014), Attack, defence and contagion in networks, ''Review of Economic Studies.'' * M. Dziubinski and S. Goyal (2016), How do you defend a network?, ''Theoretical Economics.'' * J. Gagnon and S. Goyal (2017), Networks, markets and inequality, ''American Economic Review'' * P. Dasgupta and S. Goyal (2019), Narrow Identities, ''Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics.'' * A. Galeotti, B. Golub and S. Goyal (2020), Targeting Interventions in Networks, ''Econometrica.'' * L. Ductor, S. Goyal and A. Prummer (2023), Gender and Collaboration, ''Review of Econ. and Stats.''

External links

Goyal's official page
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