Summer course: Networks in Micro- and Macroeconomics

Networks play an increasingly dominant role in many social, business, and economic environments. Moreover, network data becomes increasingly important and available due to the rise of online digital data sources. This course offers a concise introduction into the most recent economic models and econometric methods developed for processing, visualizing and learning from network data. We provide a comprehensive approach for analyzing networks, both, from microeconomic as well as macroeconomic perspectives. This will provide course participants with a generic network analysis toolbox that can then be applied to particular environments and applications, depending on idiosyncratic needs and interests. To further aid the understanding of network concepts and methods the course will combine lectures with hands-on empirical and programming exercises.