Troy Tassier - Fordham University
Research Interests:
Microeconomics, Social Networks, Public Policy, Complex Systems
I help to organize the NYC Computational Economics Workshop. Please join us for a meeting if the website and topic is of interest to you.
Research In Progress:
On the Existence and Stability of Inefficient Boundary Equilibria in the Groves Ledyard Mechanism with Scott E. Page
Referral Hiring and Education Decisions
"An Application of Network Theory to Optimize Influenza Vaccination Among Healthcare Workers'' with Phillip Polgreen
Publications - Journal Articles:
"Referral Hiring and Gender Segregation in the Workplace" Eastern Economic Journal, forthcoming.
"Segregation and Strategic Neighborhood Interaction'" with Jason Barr, Eastern Economic Journal, forthcoming.
"Social Network Structure, Equality, and Segregation in a Labor Market with Referral Hiring" with Filippo Menczer, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 66, 2008, pp. 514-528.
"Why Chains Beget Chains: An Ecological Model of Firm Entry and Exit and the Evolution of Market Similarity" with Scott E. Page, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 31, 2007, pp. 3427-3458.
"Labor Market Implications of Weak Ties" Southern Economic Journal, 72(3), 2006, pp. 704-719.
"A Markov Model of Referral Based Hiring and Workplace Segregation" Journal of Mathematical Sociology, 29(3), 2005, pp. 233-262.
"Equilibrium Selection and Stability for the Groves Ledyard Mechanism" with Scott E. Page, Journal of Public Economic Theory, 6 (2), 2004, pp. 311-335.
"A Model of Fads, Fashions, and Group Formation" Complexity, 9 (5), 2004, pp. 51-61.
"Emerging Small-World Referral Networks in Evolutionary Labor Markets'' with Filippo Menczer IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation (Special Issue on Computational Economics), 5 (5), 2001, pp. 482-492.
Publications - Conference Proceedings:
"Agent-Based Models as a Complement to Economic Theory: A Durable Goods Example" with Mark Everson and Dave Ostrowski, Proceedings of the 2002 Congress on Evolutionary Computation, pp. 729-734.
"Using Cultural Algorithms to Evolve Strategies in Agent Based Models" with Dave Ostrowski, Mark Everson, and Robert Reynolds, Proceedings of the 2002 Congress on Evolutionary Computation, pp. 741-746.
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