CTN - HISTORY
The
Coalition Theory Network (CTN,
http://www.feem-web.it/ctn/index.php) is an association
of eight prominent scientific institutions, whose aim is the
advancement and the diffusion of research in the area of coalition
and network formation. The current members are:
- Center for Operation Research and Econometrics CORE,
Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
- Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne CES-
Université Paris 1, France
-
Department
of Economics - Universiteit Maastricht, The Netherlands
- Department
of Economics - University of Warwick, UK
- Department
of Economics - Vanderbilt University, USA
- Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM),
Italy
- Groupement de Recherche en Economie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille
(GREQAM)
- Université de Marseille, France
- Markets, Organizations and Votes in Economics (MOVE,
former CODE) - Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona,
Spain.
The
history of the CTN began in 1995, when FEEM joined the CORE
in the organization of a workshop on the theory of coalition
formation. The success of the workshop pushed CORE and FEEM
to organize a second workshop in 1997 (Louvain), and then a
third one in 1998 (Venice). At this third workshop, a Coalition
Theory Network (CTN) was formally created with the initial membership
of CORE, FEEM, GREQAM and the Johnson Centre at Southern Methodist
University in Dallas (SMU). These yearly meetings continued
annually, hosted in turn by the partner institutions.
The CTN activity has three main objectives:
- the dissemination and discussion of new results by established
scholars, to scientists from within and outside the network
and to policy makers. This objective is prosecuted mainly through
a yearly Scientific Conference and the publication of an on-line
journal on the topic.
- the promotion of scientific collaboration among young and
senior researchers. This objective is prosecuted mainly through
the funding of visit periods in the centres members of the network.
- the training of young scholars, mainly through workshops,
on-topic schools and mutual exchanges between the members of
the network.