Biography:Benjamin Golub
Benjamin Golub | |
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| Institution | Northwestern University |
| Field | Microeconomics, economics of networks |
| Alma mater | California Institute of Technology Stanford University |
| Doctoral advisor | Matthew O. Jackson[1] Andrzej Skrzypacz[1] Robert B. Wilson[1] |
| Contributions | Research on social learning, financial networks |
| Awards | Calvó-Armengol International Prize, 2020[2] |
| Information at IDEAS / RePEc | |
Benjamin Golub (also known as Ben Golub) is an American economist who is a professor of economics and computer science at Northwestern University. His research focuses on the economics of networks. He was named the winner of the 2020 biannual Calvó-Armengol International Prize, which recognizes a “top researcher in [e]conomics or social sciences younger than 40 years old for contributions to the theory and comprehension of the mechanisms of social interaction.”[3]
Career
Golub received a bachelor's degree in mathematics from the California Institute of Technology in 2007. He received his PhD in economics from the Stanford Graduate School of Business in 2012.[4] From 2013 to 2015, he was a Junior Fellow at Harvard Society of Fellows,[5] and then a faculty member at the Harvard University Department of Economics, as an assistant professor from 2015 to 2019, and then as an associate professor. He is now a professor in the departments of Economics and Computer Science at Northwestern University, where he has been since 2021.[4][6]
Golub received the Calvó-Armengol International Prize in a ceremony in Andorra in November 2021.[7][8]
In 2025, Golub cofounded Refine Technologies, Inc., a company that develops AI tools for providing structural feedback on academic research papers, with Yann Calvó López; he serves as its Chief Scientist.[9][10]
Research
Golub's research focuses on social and economic networks. He has been recognized for his contributions to the study of social learning,[2][11] particularly the DeGroot model. Golub's studies highlight the importance of network structure for the quality of learning,[12] and how homophily in social networks causes polarization of opinions.[13] He has also done research on contagion of failure in financial networks.[14]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Golub, Benjamin (2011). Essays on economic networks (PDF) (PhD). Stanford. Retrieved 11 November 2021.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "6th Calvó-Armengol Prize to be awarded to Benjamin Golub". 4 November 2019. https://bse.eu/news/6th-calvo-armengol-prize-be-awarded-ben-golub-harvard.
- ↑ "Calvó-Armengol International Prize in Economics". 5 July 2015. https://bse.eu/research/calvo-armengol-prize.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Benjamin Golub". http://bengolub.net/golub-cv-2021-6-6/.
- ↑ "Current & Former Junior Fellows: Listed by Term" (in en). https://socfell.fas.harvard.edu/listed-term-0.
- ↑ "New Faculty Members: Department of Economics - Northwestern University" (in en). https://economics.northwestern.edu/about/newsletter/2021-summer-newsletter/new-faculty.html.
- ↑ "Benjamin Golub rep el premi Calvó Armengol". Diari d'Andorra. 8 November 2021. https://www.diariandorra.ad/noticies/nacional/2021/11/08/benjamin_golub_rep_premi_calvo_armengol_189907_1125.html.
- ↑ "El guanyador del Calvó-Armengol demana més capacitat d'anticipació davant dels problemes d'abastiment provocats per la pandèmia". ANA Economia. 8 November 2021. http://www.anaeconomia.ad/ca/noticia/156835-el-guanyador-del-calvo-armengol-demana-mes-capacitat-d%E2%80%99anticipacio-davant-dels-problemes-d%E2%80%99abastiment-provocats-per-la-pandemia.
- ↑ "Team". Refine. https://www.refine.ink/team.
- ↑ Cochrane, John H. (24 February 2026). "Refine". https://www.grumpy-economist.com/p/refine.
- ↑ "El doctor en Economia Benjamin Golub rep el 6è Premi Internacional Calvó Armengol". Govern d'Andorra. 8 November 2021. https://www.govern.ad/educacio-i-ensenyament-superior/item/13509-el-doctor-en-economia-benjamin-golub-rep-el-6e-premi-internacional-calvo-armengol.
- ↑ Golub, Benjamin & Matthew O. Jackson 2010. "Naïve Learning in Social Networks and the Wisdom of Crowds," American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, American Economic Association, vol. 2(1), pages 112-49, February.
- ↑ Golub, Benjamin; Jackson, Matthew O. (2012-07-26). "How Homophily Affects the Speed of Learning and Best-Response Dynamics". The Quarterly Journal of Economics (Oxford University Press (OUP)) 127 (3): 1287–1338. doi:10.1093/qje/qjs021. ISSN 0033-5533.
- ↑ Elliott, Golub, and Jackson (2014). "Financial Networks and Contagion". American Economic Review 104 (10): 3115–53. doi:10.1257/aer.104.10.3115. http://bengolub.net/papers/financial_networks.pdf.
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