{{short description|Indian-British economist}} {{EngvarB|date=February 2019}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2019}} {{more footnotes|date=December 2018}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Sanjeev Goyal | image = Sanjeev Goyal.jpg | image_size = 180px | caption = Goyal in March 2007 | birth_date = | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | citizenship = | nationality = | ethnicity = | field = [[Microeconomics]] | work_institutions = [[Erasmus University]] <br/> [[Cambridge University]] | alma_mater = [[Delhi University]]<br>[[IIM Ahmedabad]]<br>[[Cornell University]] | doctoral_advisor = [[David Easley]]<br>[[Lawrence E. Blume]]<br>[[Tapan Mitra]]<br/> [[Karl Shell]] | doctoral_students = | known_for = Economic theory <br/> Networks | author_abbrev_bot = | author_abbrev_zoo = | influences = | influenced = | prizes = National Talent Scholar <br /> Gold Medal, Delhi Univ.<br /> A.D White Fellow, Cornell | religion = | footnotes = }}
'''Sanjeev Goyal''' [[Fellow of the British Academy|FBA]] is an Indian-British economist, best known for his pioneering research on networks.
He is currently Arthur C. Pigou Professor of Economics at the [[University of Cambridge]] and a Fellow of [[Christ's College, Cambridge]]. His book, ''Connections: an introduction to the [[economics of networks]]'', was published by Princeton University Press in 2007; his second book, ''Networks: An Economics Approach'', was published by MIT Press in 2023.
Sanjeev Goyal is a [[Fellow of the British Academy]] and [[Fellow of the Econometric Society]]. He was the founding Director of the Cambridge-INET Institute (2012–2014) and Chair of the Cambridge Economics Faculty (2014–2018).
==References== * V. Bala and S. Goyal (1998), Learning From Neighbors, ''Review of Economic Studies.'' * V. Bala and S. Goyal (2000), A Non-Cooperative Model of Network Formation, ''Econometrica.'' * S. Goyal and J.L. Moraga (2001), R&D Networks, ''RAND Journal.'' * S. Goyal and S. Joshi (2003), Networks of Collaboration in Oligopoly, ''Games and Econ Beh.'' * S. Goyal and F. Vega-Redondo (2005), Network formation and social coordination, ''Games and Econ Beh..'' * S.Goyal, M. vd Leij and J-L Moraga (2006), Economics: An Emerging Small World, ''Journal of Political Economy.'' * S. Goyal and F. Vega-Redondo (2007), Structural Holes in Social networks, ''Journal of Economic Theory.'' * A. Galeotti and S. Goyal (2009), Influencing and influencers: a theory of strategic diffusion, ''RAND Journal.'' * A. Galeotti, S. Goyal, M. Jackson, F. Vega-Redondo, L. Yariv (2010), Network Games, ''Review of Economic Studies.'' * A. Galeotti and S. Goyal (2010), The Law of the Few, ''American Economic Review.'' * S. Goyal and M. Kearns (2012), Competitive Contagion in Networks, ''Symposium on the Theory of Computing.'' * L. Ductor, M.Fafchamps, S. Goyal and M. v.d.Leij (2014), Social Networks & Research Output, ''Rev of Econ and Stats.'' * S. Goyal and A. Vigier (2014), Attack, defence and contagion in networks, ''Review of Economic Studies.'' * M. Dziubinski and S. Goyal (2016), How do you defend a network?, ''Theoretical Economics.'' * J. Gagnon and S. Goyal (2017), Networks, markets and inequality, ''American Economic Review'' * P. Dasgupta and S. Goyal (2019), Narrow Identities, ''Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics.'' * A. Galeotti, B. Golub and S. Goyal (2020), Targeting Interventions in Networks, ''Econometrica.'' * L. Ductor, S. Goyal and A. Prummer (2023), Gender and Collaboration, ''Review of Econ. and Stats.'' <references />
== External links == * [https://www.econ.cam.ac.uk/people/academic/sanjeev-goyal=Goyal's official page]; {{authority control}}
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