2nd Washington Area Network Economics Symposium (WANES)

The Washington Area Network Economics Symposium (WANES) is a research conference that highlights academic work from researchers at leading economics institutions in network economics in the Washington DC area.

Saturday, October 11, 2025
9:00 am – 5:00 pm ET

Virginia Tech Innovation Campus (Fifth floor, Room 5150)
3625 Potomac Avenue, Alexandria VA

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9:00 am - 10:30 am: Short Term Funding and Clearing

• "Short-Circuiting Short-Term Funding" Mark Maddrick, Department of the Treasury
• "Rewiring Repo" Jin-Wook Chang, Federal Reserve
• "Clearing Markets and Client Clearing Services" Gadgil Salil,  Department of the Treasury

10:30 pm - 11:00 am: Break

11:00 am - 12:00 pm: War and Political Structure

• "Paradox of Fragmentation Reconsidered: The Role of Asymmetry" Chao Wei, George Washington University
• "Network Topology and the Divergent Fates of States" Hilton L. Root, George Mason University

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm: Lunch

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm: Consumption and Labor

• "Revisiting Consumption-Housing Wealth Relationship: Role of Peer Effects" Koustuv Lahiri, Virginia Tech
• "Cointegrated VARs as Networks: Insights into Gender and Age Disparities in the U.S. Labor Market" Neil. R. Ericson, George Washington University

2:00 pm - 2:30 pm: Break

2:30 pm - 3:30 pm: Firms and Networks 1

• "Environmental Externalities when Firms Lack Commitment" David Arseneau, Federal Reserve
• "Spatial Inequality and Informality in Firm Networks" Verena Wiedemann, International Finance Corporation

3:30 pm - 4:00 pm: Break

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm: Firms and Networks 2

• "Social Networks and Technology Adoption: Evidence from Online Banking" Qi Chen, George Washington University
• "Assessing Aggregate Effects of Firm-Level Shocks with Reconstructed Networks" Davide Samuele Luzzati, Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies