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Sanjeev Goyal
Goyal in March 2007
Alma mater	Delhi University IIM Ahmedabad Cornell University
Known for	Economic theory Networks
Awards	National Talent Scholar Gold Medal, Delhi Univ. A.D White Fellow, Cornell
Scientific career
Fields	Microeconomics
Institutions	Erasmus University Cambridge University
Doctoral advisor	David Easley Lawrence E. Blume Tapan Mitra Karl Shell

Sanjeev Goyal 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).

• 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.

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