This page is a list of sub-pages of ongoing research projects and fields: All posted working papers and outputs can be downloaded as PDF files.
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New page on network formation
I have added a new page on my research on network formation. Two papers are currently posted there. First, a paper with Sudipta Sarangi on the modeling of trust in network formation. Second, an unpublished working paper from 2000 on evolutionary formation of interaction if players play a simple game in a spatial setting.
Professional profile
Positions held 2008 – present Professor of Theoretical EconomicsManagement SchoolThe Queen’s University of Belfast, UK. 2019 – 2023 Head of Economics DepartmentManagement SchoolThe Queen’s University of Belfast, UK. 2011 – 2014 Head of School (Dean)Management SchoolThe Queen’s University of Belfast, UK. 2005 – 2009 ProfessorDepartment of EconomicsVirginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA. Spring 2006 Visiting ProfessorDepartment of…
Analysis of Networks & Games
This page contains recent working papers on game theoretic models of network formation, the analysis of network games, the allocation of collectively generated wealth in a social network, and game theoretic social network analysis. Game theoretic foundations of the Gately power measure for directed networks by Robert P. Gilles and Lina Mallozzi August 2023 We…
Trust in networks
Recently there has been a small surge in the economics literature addressing the role of trust in the economy. Experiments have shown that trust is extremely important for understanding economic processes. Trust does not fit very well with the traditional concept of “homo economicus”: Rational behavior is not trusting. The building and confirmation of trust…
Limitations of behavioral economics
Over the past months during the current economic recession and financial crisis, there has developed a published opinion as if so-called behavioral economics could explain the crisis. Behavioral economics emanates from observations in economic and game theoretic experiments that human subjects do not behave rationally, but are clearly bounded in their reasoning about decisions. Subjects…