Sanjeev Goyal

Sanjeev Goyal
Residence	Cambridge
Fields	Microeconomics
Alma mater	Delhi University IIM, Ahmedabad Cornell University
Doctoral advisor	David Easley
Doctoral students	Eric de Laat Klaas Staal Andrea Galeotti Marco van der Leij Willemien Kets Ana Babus Alessio D'Ignazio J. Roberto Parra-Segura Adrien Vigier Bryony Reich Oliver Baetz James Rutt Diego Cerdeiro
Known for	Learning and Diffusion Network Formation Networks and Markets Economics of Conflict
Notable awards	National Talent Scholar Gold Medal, Delhi Univ. Industrial Scholar IIMA A.D White Fellow, Cornell Fellow of British Academy

Sanjeev Goyal is Professor of Economics at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge. He is a pioneer and leading international scholar in the economic study of networks. In 2007, Princeton University Press published his book Connections: an introduction to the economics of networks. A Chinese translation appeared in 2010.

Sanjeev Goyal is a Fellow of the British Academy and was the founding Director of the Cambridge-INET Institute.

References

• Bala, V. and S. Goyal (1998), Learning From Neighbors, Review of Economic Studies.
• Bala, V. and S. Goyal (2000), A Non-Cooperative Model of Network Formation, Econometrica.
• Goyal, S. and J.L. Moraga (2001), R&D Networks, Rand Journal.
• Goyal, S. and S. Joshi (2003), Networks of Collaboration in Oligopoly, Games and Econ Beh.
• Goyal, S.and F. Vega-Redondo (2005), Network formation and social coordination, Games and Econ Beh..
• Galeotti, A., S. Goyal, J. Kamphorst (2006), Network formation with heterogeneous players, Games and Econ. Beh.
• Goyal, S., J.L. Moraga and M. v.d. Leij (2006), Economics: an emerging small world?, Journal of Political Economy.
• Goyal, S. and F. Vega-Redondo (2007), Structural Holes in Social networks, Journal of Economic Theory.
• Galeotti, A. and S. Goyal (2009), Influencing and influencers: a theory of strategic diffusion, Rand Journal.
• Galeotti, A., S. Goyal, M. Jackson, F. Vega-Redondo, L. Yariv (2010), Network Games, Review of Economic Studies.
• Galeotti, A. and S. Goyal (2010), The Law of the Few, American Economic Review.
• Goyal, S and M. Kearns (2012), Competitive Contagion in Networks, Symposium on the Theory of Computing.
• Ductor, L, M.Fafchamps, S. Goyal and M. v.d.Leij (2014), Social Networks & Research Output, Rev of Econ and Stats.
• Goyal, S. and A. Vigier (2014), Attack, defence and contagion in networks, Review of Economic Studies.
• Dziubinski, M. and S. Goyal (2016), How do you defend a network?, Theoretical Economics.

External links

• Goyal's official page;
• Presentation at the Inaugural Conference of the Institute for New Economic Thinking.