Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Summer School at the University of Cambridge
The Sloan-Cambridge Mesoeconomics Programme will bring together young researchers to access frontier leading work from world experts, with the intention that they utilise the tools and collaborations to propel this emerging field of economics.
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation – Minor Research Grants in Mesoeconomics
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Summer School at the University of Cambridge will award 3-5 small research grants:
- up to the value of £5,000
- to support the development of research in supply chains, production networks and, more broadly, the aggregate consequences of networked interactions.
- to support developing research via, among other things, acquiring and accessing data, accessing online survey platforms, and computing services.
To apply, please email a pdf file of no more than one page, with details of how these funds could support your research to:
Closing date: July 27, 2024
Awards confirmed: early August 2024
International Conference
Summer school students are invited to stay on to attend the Alfred P. Sloan and Janeway Institute International Conference on the same topics immediately after the summer school.
Find a link to the programme here
July 1st 2024
10.10 – 10.15 Welcome & coffee
10.15 – 11.00 Prof. Alireza Tahbaz- Salehi
11.00 – 11.45 Prof. Ernest Liu, ‘The Bullwhip Effect: Demand Shocks in Supply Chains’
11.45 – 12.15 Break
12.15 – 13.00 Prof. V. Carvalho, ‘Network Bottlenecks and Market Power’ co-authored w/ M. Elliott & J. Spray
13.00 – 14.00 Lunch
14.15 – 15.00 Prof. Matt Jackson, ‘Supply Chain Disruptions, the Structure of Production Networks, and the Impact of Globalization’ co-authored with Matt Elliott. Read the paper
15.00 – 15.45 Prof. Ebehi Iyoha
15.45 – 16.15 Break
16.15 – 17.00 Prof. Keith Head, ‘Industrial policies for multi-stage production: The battle for battery-powered vehicles’ co-authored with Thierry Mayer (Sciences Po), Marc Melitz (Harvard), Chenying Yang (SMU)
17.00 – 17.45 Prof. Pol Antras, ‘Exporting, Global Sourcing, and Multinational Activity: Theory and Evidence from the United States’ co-authored with Evgenii Fadeev, Teresa Fort and Felix Tintelnot
July 2, 2024
9.15 – 09.30 Welcome & coffee
9.30 – 10.15 Prof. Sanjeev Goyal, ‘Experimental evidence on the relation between network centrality affects individual choice’. Read the paper
10.15 – 11.00 Prof. Fernando Vega-Redondo
11.00 – 11.30 Break
11.30 – 12.15 Prof. Adam Szeidl
12.15 – 13.00 Prof. Maryam Farboodi, ‘Price Discrimination: Who Benefits from the Data?’ co-authored with A. Shourideh and N. Haghpanah
13.00 – Lunch
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The Summer School
The summer school aims to develop an international community of mesoeconomics researchers and foster connections across relevant disciplines among established and new researchers.
Mesoeconomics is a new approach to answering questions about the economy and economic policy that necessitates a focus on the connections between microeconomic units.
Read about the grant awarded by the Sloan Foundation to Faculty of Economics co-principal investigators Professor Vasco Carvalho and Professor Matthew Elliott here.
Teachers
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Teaching Programme
Areas addressed will include micro and macro baseline models of production networks with applications to the network origins of business cycles, market power and antitrust in networked markets, inflation, mark-ups and pricing pass-through in production networks, networked international trade and global economic stability, and systemic risk in financial networks.
The summer school aims to blend cross-field approaches to these areas, drawing material from both microeconomic and macroeconomic theory while also emphasizing their empirical content.
For enquiries, contact Eliza Preece: mesoeconomics@econ.cam.ac.uk
