Faculty

My academic journey began at the University of Minnesota, where I had the privilege of completing my Ph.D. in 1984 under the mentorship of Nobel Laureate Leonid Hurwicz. After that, I was a research fellow at the Institute of Economic Analysis of Barcelona and at the Institute for Advanced Studies of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, becoming a full professor at the University of Alicante in 1990. In 2007 I joined the European University Institute in Florence and in 2013 Bocconi University in Milan. From the Fall of 2025 I am a professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. My research has largely focused on the theory of games and its socio-economic applications, with a special emphasis on how strategic behavior is affected by the interplay of social networks, learning, and evolution. This work has led to the publication of four books and over a hundred articles in leading journals in the fields of economics, game theory, biology, and physics, as well as in Science, Nature Human Behavior, and PNAS. I have supervised 27 Ph. D. students and have been elected as fellow of the Econometric Society, Game Theory Society, and the Society for the Advance of Economic Theory.