Research Interests

Microeconomics, Game Theory, Evolutionary Game Theory, Behavioral Economics, Social Networks, Industrial Organization;

CURRENT WORK

• “Co-existing Platforms in Multi-Layer Network Formation​”, with Zhiwei Cui, 2024.
• “On the benefits of robo-advice in financial markets”, with Marco Lambrecht and Jörg Oechssler, 2023.
• “A Model of Multiple Selves”, with Zeyu Liu and Dan Friedman, 2023.
• “Motives for Delegating Financial Decisions”, with Mikhail Freer and Dan Friedman, 2023.

PUBLICATIONS

• “Running the Risk: Immunity and Mobility in Response to a Pandemic”, with Claudio Deiana, Andrea Geraci and Giovanni Mastrobuoni, European Economic Review, 2025, 105057. 
• “Cooperation through collective punishment and participation”, with Dominik Duell, Friederike Mengel and Erik Mohlin,  Political Science Research and Methods,  2024, 12, 494–520
• “Contagion in Decentralized Lending Protocols: A Case Study of Compound” with Natkamon Tovanich, Myriam Kassoul and Julien Prat, Proceedings of the 2023 Workshop on Decentralized Finance and Security, 2023, 55-63. 
• "Emergence of specialized third-party enforcement” with Erik Mohlin and Alexandros Rigos, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120 (24) e2207029120, 2023.
• “Match length realizations and cooperation in indefinitely repeated games” with Friederike Mengel and Ludovica Orlandi, Journal of Economic Theory, Volume 200, 2022, 105416.
•  “Lock-in through passive connections”, with Zhiwei Cui, Journal of Economic Theory, 192, 2021, 105187.
• “Copy Trading”, with Jose Apesteguia and Jörg Oechssler, Management Science, 66(12), 2020, 5608-5622, see also column on voxeu.
• “Imitation of Peers in Children and Adults”, with Jose Apesteguia, Steffen Huck, Jörg Oechssler, and Elke Weidenholzer, Games, 9(1), 2018.
• “Local Interactions with Switching Costs”, with Ge Jiang, Economic Theory, 64, 2017, 571-588.
• “Constrained Mobility and the Evolution of Efficient Outcomes” with Paolo Pin and Elke Weidenholzer, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 82, 2017, 165-175.
• “From Imitation to Collusion: Long-run Learning in a Low-Information Environment” joint with Dan Friedman, Steffen Huck, and Ryan Oprea, Journal of Economic Theory, 155, 2015, 185-205.
•  “Imitation and the Role of Information in Overcoming Coordination Failures”, joint with Carlos Alós-Ferrer, Games and Economic Behavior, 87, 2014, 397-411.
•  “Constrained Interactions and Social Coordination”, with Mathias Staudigl, Journal of Economic Theory, 152, 2014, 41-63.
• “The Informational Divide”, with Manfred Nermuth, Giacomo Pasini, and Paolo Pin, Games and Economic Behavior, 78, 2013, 21-30.
• “Long run equilibria, dominated strategies, and local interactions”, Games and Economic Behavior, 75(2), 2012, 1014-1024.
•  “Oligopolistic Markets with Sequential Search and Production Cost Uncertainty” with Maarten Janssen and Paul Pichler, RAND Journal of Economics, 42(3), 2011, 444-470.
• “Coordination Games and Local Interactions: A Survey of the Game Theoretic Literature”, Games, 1(4), 2010, 551-585.
• “Imitation and the Evolution of Walrasian Behavior: Theoretically Fragile but Experimentally Robust”, with Jose Apesteguia, Steffen Huck, and Jörg Oechssler, Journal of Economic Theory, 143 (1), 2010, 1603 - 1617.
• “Contagion and Efficiency”, with Carlos Alós-Ferrer, Journal of Economic Theory, 145 (5), 2008, 251 - 274.
• “Partial Bandwagon Effects and Local Interactions”, with Carlos Alós-Ferrer, Games and Economic Behavior, 61 (2), 2007, 179 - 197.
• “Imitation, Local Interactions, and Efficiency”, with Carlos Alós-Ferrer ,  Economics Letters, 93 (2), 2006, 163 - 168.