Network Econometrics at Dinner

At a seminar dinner at Duke last week, I asked the leading young econometrician at the table for his forecast of the Next Big Thing, now that the partial-identification set-estimation literature has matured. The speed and forcefulness of his answer -- network econometrics -- raised my eyebrows, and I agree with it. (Obviously I've been working on network econometrics, so maybe he was just stroking me, but I don't think so.) Related, the Acemoglu-Jackson 2014 NBER Methods Lectures, "Theory and Application of Network Models," are now online (both videos and slides). Great stuff!