Dr Edoardo Gallo

College positions: Fellow, Director of Studies in Economics

Subject: Economics

Dr Edoardo Gallo is an Official Fellow in Economics at Magdalene.

Dr Edoardo Gallo investigates how the structure of social networks and the psychology of decision-making influence human behaviour, conducting interactive experiments both in the lab and online.

His current research focuses on topics including social distancing, tracing and quarantine policies, financial contagion, cybercrime markets, the emergence of cooperation and trust, the interplay of social media and elections, inequality, and the integration of AI in medical decision-making.

Research Interests

  • Experimental economics
  • Networks
  • Behavioural economics,

Qualifications

  • A.B. Physics and Mathematics, Harvard University
  • M.Phil., Economics, University of Oxford
  • D.Phil., Economics, University of Oxford

KEY PUBLICATIONS

Efficiency and equilibrium in network games: An experiment (with C. Yan). The Review of Economics and Statistics, forthcoming.

Communication networks in markets. European Economic Review, 129, October 2020, 103545.

Whatever it takes to win: Rivalry increases unethical behavior (with G. Kilduff, A. Galinsky, and J. J. Reade). Academy of Management Journal, 59 (5), 1508–1534, 2016.

The effects of reputational and social knowledge on cooperation (with C. Yan). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 112 (12), 3647–3652, 2015.

Social learning by chit-chat. Journal of Economic Theory, 153, 313–343, 2014.

Email
edo@econ.cam.ac.uk