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Economics and Finance
Australia
2026

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Economics and Finance

D-Index
74
Citations
21235
World Ranking
373
National Ranking
8

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Australia Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Australia Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Australia Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Australia Leader Award
  • 2016 - Fellows of the Econometric Society
  • 2012 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Yves Zenou is affiliated with Monash University in Australia and has a research profile focused primarily in the social sciences. Their work spans a range of subfields including sociology and political science, education, economics and econometrics, safety research, and statistical and nonlinear physics.

The scientist's research addresses a variety of topics, with notable emphasis on:

  • School Choice and Performance
  • Parental Involvement in Education
  • Game Theory and Applications
  • Higher Education Research Studies
  • Social Capital and Networks
  • Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
  • Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare

Recent publications from this researcher include the following papers:

  • Who is the Key Player? A Network Analysis of Juvenile Delinquency (2020) - Journal of Business and Economic Statistics
  • Social Connectedness and Local Contagion (2021) - The Review of Economic Studies
  • Toward a General Theory of Peer Effects (2024) - Econometrica
  • Ethnic Mixing in Early Childhood: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment and a Structural Model (2021) - SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Peer Effects in the Workplace: A Network Approach (2022) - SSRN Electronic Journal

Yves Zenou frequently collaborates with a core group of co-authors, including:

  • Michael Vlassopoulos
  • Asad Islam
  • Abu Siddique
  • Junjie Zhou
  • Corrado Giulietti

Publication venues where Zenou has a significant body of work include:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • AEA Randomized Controlled Trials
  • European Economic Review
  • Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
  • Journal of Economic Theory

The scientist has been recognized by peers with membership in notable societies such as the Fellows of the Econometric Society since 2016 and the Academia Europaea since 2012.

Best Publications

  • Who's who in networks. Wanted: the key player

    Coralio Ballester;Antoni Calvó-Armengol;Yves Zenou

  • Peer Effects and Social Networks in Education

    Antoni Calvó-Armengol;Eleonora Patacchini;Yves Zenou

  • Why is central Paris rich and downtown Detroit poor?: An amenity-based theory

    Jan K. Brueckner;Jacques François Thisse;Jacques François Thisse;Yves Zenou;Yves Zenou

  • The mechanisms of spatial mismatch

    Laurent Gobillon;Harris Selod;Yves Zenou

  • Games on networks

    Matthew O. Jackson;Matthew O. Jackson;Matthew O. Jackson;Yves Zenou;Yves Zenou

  • The Economic Consequences of Social-Network Structure

    Matthew O. Jackson;Brian W. Rogers;Yves Zenou

  • Job matching, social network and word-of-mouth communication

    Antoni Calvó-Armengol;Yves Zenou

  • SOCIAL NETWORKS AND CRIME DECISIONS: THE ROLE OF SOCIAL STRUCTURE IN FACILITATING DELINQUENT BEHAVIOR*

    Antoni Calvó-Armengol;Yves Zenou

  • Density, Social Networks and Job Search Methods: Theory and Application to Egypt

    Jackline Wahba;Yves Zenou

  • Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Migration, Entrepreneurship and Social Capital

    Jackline Wahba;Yves Zenou;Yves Zenou

  • Juvenile Delinquency and Conformism

    Eleonora Patacchini;Yves Zenou

  • Let’s not Throw the Baby Out with the Bath Water: The Role of Urban Villages in Housing Rural Migrants in China

    Yan Song;Yves Zenou;Chengri Ding

  • Formation and persistence of oppositional identities

    Alberto Bisin;Eleonora Patacchini;Eleonora Patacchini;Eleonora Patacchini;Thierry A Verdier;Yves Zenou

  • Ethnic Networks and Employment Outcomes

    Eleonora Patacchini;Yves Zenou

  • Ethnic identity and labour market outcomes of immigrants in Europe

    Alberto Bisin;Eleonora Patacchini;Thierry Verdier;Yves Zenou

  • Urban Labor Economics

    Yves Zenou

  • Nestedness in networks: A theoretical model and some applications

    Michael D. König;Claudio J. Tessone;Yves Zenou

  • Property tax and urban sprawl theory and implications for US cities

    Yan Song;Yves Zenou;Yves Zenou

  • How important is access to jobs? Old question—improved answer

    Olof Åslund;John Östh;Yves Zenou

  • Space and Unemployment: The Labor‐Market Effects of Spatial Mismatch

    Jan K. Brueckner;Yves Zenou

  • Bend It Like Beckham: Ethnic Identity and Integration

    Alberto Bisin;Eleonora Patacchini;Eleonora Patacchini;Eleonora Patacchini;Thierry Verdier;Thierry Verdier;Yves Zenou;Yves Zenou

Frequent Co-Authors

Eleonora Patacchini
Eleonora Patacchini Cornell University
Thierry Verdier
Thierry Verdier Paris School of Economics
Jacques-François Thisse
Jacques-François Thisse Université Catholique de Louvain
Alberto Bisin
Alberto Bisin New York University
Matthew O. Jackson
Matthew O. Jackson Stanford University
John A. List
John A. List University of Chicago
Jan K. Brueckner
Jan K. Brueckner University of California, Irvine
Yan Song
Yan Song University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Stephen L. Ross
Stephen L. Ross University of Connecticut
Maurice Kugler
Maurice Kugler George Mason University

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