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How to Disrupt a Market
Edoardo Gallo, Rebecca Heath, Jonathan Lusthaus +1
Market design research in economics naturally focusses on how to improve market efficiency. Our objective here is exactly the opposite - how to design interventions that make a mar…
Cooperation and Cognition in Social Networks
Edoardo Gallo, Joseph Lee, Yohanes Eko Riyanto +1
Social networks can sustain cooperation by amplifying the consequences of a single defection through a cascade of relationship losses. Building on Jackson et al. (2012), we introdu…
The economic and health impacts of contact tracing and quarantine programs
Darija Barak, Edoardo Gallo, Alastair Langtry
Contact tracing and quarantine programs have been one of the leading Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions against COVID-19. Some governments have relied on mandatory programs, whereas…
Experience of the COVID-19 pandemic in Wuhan leads to a lasting increase in social distancing
Darija Barak, Edoardo Gallo, Ke Rong +2
On 11th Jan 2020, the first COVID-19 related death was confirmed in Wuhan, Hubei. The Chinese government responded to the outbreak with a lockdown that impacted most residents of H…
Cooperation and punishment mechanisms in uncertain and dynamic networks
Edoardo Gallo, Yohanes E. Riyanto, Nilanjan Roy +1
This paper examines experimentally how reputational uncertainty and the rate of change of the social environment determine cooperation. Reputational uncertainty significantly decre…
Social distancing in networks: A web-based interactive experiment
Edoardo Gallo, Darija Barak, Alastair Langtry
Governments have used social distancing to stem the spread of COVID-19, but lack evidence on the most effective policy to ensure compliance. We examine the effectiveness of fines a…
Social networks, confirmation bias and shock elections
Edoardo Gallo, Alastair Langtry
This paper links the increasing prominence of social networks in politics to recent shock election outcomes. In our setup, agents learning on a network suffer from confirmation bia…