Fernando Vega-Redondo

Professor of Economics

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Email: fernando.vega@eui.eu 
Tel. [+39] 055 4685 951
Fax [+39] 055 4685 902
Secretary: marcia.gastaldo@eui.eu 

Postal address:

Department of Economics
European University Institute
Villa San Paolo
Via della Piazzuola 43
50133 Firenze - Italy

Short Biographical Sketch

Prof. Vega-Redondo joined the Institute from the Universities of Alicante and Essex in September 2007.  He has been a visiting professor at several institutions including the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Cornell University, the Indian Statistical Institute, and the Institute for Advanced Studies of the Hebrew University.

His recent research has focused on social networks, evolution, and learning, both approached from a classical methodological viewpoint (e.g. game theory) as well as from an interdisciplinary perspective (e.g. complex system analysis).

He has written extensively on these topics, including books published by Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press and a recent Econometric Society monograph. His articles have appeared in journals such as Econometrica, Review of Economic Studies, Journal of Economic Theory, Games and Economic Behavior, International Economic Review, Journal of Theoretical Biology, Physical Review Letters,  the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, and Science.

Fields of Research

• Game Theory 
• Evolutionary Theory 
• Learning and bounded rationality 
• Social networks

Languages

• Spanish
• English
• Italian

Selected Publications

• "Network games," with Andrea Galeotti, Sanjeev Goyal, Matthew Jackson, and Leeat Yariv, Review of Economic Studies, 2010: 77.
• "Peer effects and peer avoidance: the diffusion of behavior in coevolving networks", with Constanza Fosco and Matteo Marsili).Journal of the European Economic Association, 2010: 8.
• "Economic networks: the new challenges," with Frank Schweitzer, Giorgio Fagiolo, Didier Sornette, Alessandro Vespignani, and Douglas R. White) Science, 2009: 325.
• "Optimal information transmission in organizations: search and congestion," with Alex Arenas, Antonio Cabrales, Abert Díaz-Guilera, and Roger Guimerà), Review of Economic Design, 2009: 13.
• "Economic Networks: What do we know and what do we need to know?" with Frank Schweitzer, Giorgio Fagiolo, Didier Sornette, and Douglas R. White), Advances of Complex Systems, 2009: 12.
• "Homophily, Conformity, and Noise in the (Co-)Evolution of Complex Social Networks” with George Ehrhard and Matteo Marsili)  in A. Reggiani and P. Nijkamp (eds.), Complexity and Spatial Networks, Advances in Spatial Science, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2009.
• "Emergence and resilience of social networks: a general theoretical framework," with George Ehrhard and Matteo Marsili, Annales d'Economie et Statistique, 2008: 86.
• "Structural holes in social networks," (joint with Sanjeev Goyal), Journal of Economic Theory, 2007: 137.  
• "Diffusion and growth in an evolving network," with George Ehrhard and Matteo Marsili), International Journal of Game Theory, 2006: 34.
• "Building up social capital in a changing world," Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2006: 30.
• "Phenomenological models of socioeconomic network dynamics," with George Ehrhard and Matteo Marsili, Physical Review E, 2006: 74.
• "Clustering, Cooperation, and Search in Social Networks," with Matteo Marsili and Frantisek Slanina) Journal of the European Economic Association, 2005: 3.
• "Learning, network formation, and coordination," with Sanjeev Goyal, Games and Economic Behavior, 2005: 50.
• "On the Non-Trivial Dynamics of Complex Networks," with Ginestra Bianconi and Matteo Marsili, Physica A, 2005: 346.
• "On the rise and fall of networked societies," with George Ehrhard and Matteo Marsili, American Institute of Physics Conference Proceedings, 2005: 779.   
• "Self-organized-critical network dynamics," with Ginestra Bianconi and Matteo Marsili, American Institute of Physics Conference Proceedings, 2005: 776.