Speaker: Fernando Vega-Redondo, Bocconi University

Title: Networking entrepreneurs

Time: 10: 00 - 11:30, October 28, 2024

About the speaker:

The main research interests of Professor Fernando Vega-Redondo lie in the fields of Game Theory, Evolutionary Theory, Learning, Bounded Rationality Social Networks. His research has been mostly theoretical but has also undertaken substantial empirical work that integrates theory and econometric analysis in the study of phenomena such as riot behavior or shock propagation in large contexts. He received his Ph. D. from the U. of Minnesota in 1984 under Leonid Hurwicz and has taught at the Universities of Alicante, Pompeu Fabra, Essex, Cornell and the EUI (Florence). Professor Fernando Vega-Redondo is the author of the books Complex Economic Networks, Economics and the Theory of Games (both by Cambridge UP), and Evolution, Games, and Economic Behavior (Oxford UP). His multidisciplinary research has led to more than one hundred publications in economics, game theory, biology, and physics. He is currently co-editor of Network Science and associate editor of Games and Economic Behavior.