About my research
I work on the incorporation of jointly intentional behaviour into evolutionary game theory. That is, my work lies at the intersection of evolution and cooperative game theory. Along the way, I have used evolutionary game theory to tackle problems in bargaining theory, matching theory, the evolution of preferences, contagion in networks and the study of conventions. I also have a particular interest in the evolution of collaboration — the emergence of the ability to make decisions together with others, an attribute that is fundamental to human behaviour. My work has been published in journals such as the Review of Economic Studies, Econometrica, the Journal of Economic Theory, Theoretical Economics and Games & Economic Behavior.
Selected publications
Deep and shallow thinking in the long run, Theoretical Economics (2022). Coauthored with Heinrich Nax. LINK
Stochastic dynamics and Edmonds’ algorithm, Journal of Dynamics and Games (2022). Coauthored with William Sandholm. LINK
Geographic diversity in economic publishing, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (2021). LINK
Conventions under heterogeneous behavioral rules, Review of Economic Studies (2021). LINK
Corrigendum to Maximality in the farsighted stable set, Econometrica (2021). PDF
Evolution and Rawlsian social choice in matching, Games & Economic Behavior (2020). Coauthored with Ennio Bilancini, Leonardo Boncinelli. LINK
When does ambiguity fade away?, Economics Letters (2020). Coauthored with Filippo Massari. LINK
Collaboration leads to cooperation on sparse networks, PLOS –Computational Biology (2020). Coauthored with Simon Angus. LINK
Agency, potential and contagion, Games & Economic Behavior (2020). Coauthored with Damian Sercombe. LINK
Watercooler chat, organizational structure and corporate culture, Games & Economic Behavior (2019). Coauthored with Andrew Wait, Simon Angus. LINK
Risk attitudes and risk dominance in the long run, Games & Economic Behavior (2019). Coauthored with Heinrich Nax. LINK
Agency Equilibrium, Games (2019). LINK
Evolutionary game theory: a renaissance, Games (2018). LINK
Conventional contracts, intentional behavior and logit choice: equality without symmetry, Games & Economic Behavior (2018). Coauthored with Sung-Ha Hwang, Wooyoung Lim, Philip Neary. LINK
Heterogeneity in preferences and behavior in threshold models, Journal of Mechanism and Institution Design (2017). Coauthored with Philip Neary. PDF
Shared intentions: the evolution of collaboration, Games & Economic Behavior (2017). LINK
The preferences of Homo Moralis are unstable under evolving assortativity, International Journal of Game Theory (2017). LINK
Payoff dependent dynamics and coordination games, Economic Theory (2017). Coauthored with Sung-Ha Hwang. LINK
Stochastic stability in assignment problems, Journal of Mathematical Economics (2016). Coauthored with Bettina Klaus. LINK
Emergence of shared intentionality is coupled to the advance of cumulative culture, PLOS – Computational Biology (2015). Coauthored with Simon Angus. LINK
Stochastic stability on general state spaces, Journal of Mathematical Economics (2015). LINK
Is it a norm to favour your own group?, Experimental Economics (2015). Coauthored with Donna Harris, Benedikt Herrmann, Andreas Kontoleon. LINK
Coalitions, tipping points and the speed of evolution, Journal of Economic Theory (2015). Coauthored with Simon Angus. LINK
A one-shot deviation principle for stability in matching problems, Journal of Economic Theory (2015). Coauthored with Ryoji Sawa. LINK
Cheap talk and editorial control, BE Journal of Theoretical Economics (2014). LINK
Recontracting and stochastic stability in cooperative games, Journal of Economic Theory (2012). LINK
Coalitional Stochastic Stability, Games & Economic Behavior (2012). LINK