Ph.D., Computer ScienceOn November 3, 2007, at the age of 37, Antoni Calvó-Armengol passed away unexpectedly. He was a friend, a co-author, and a member of my Ph.D. Committee. Our thoughts are with his wife and two young children. His colleagues at the CEPR and UAB have written the following.
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I will be joining the OPIM department at the Wharton School of Business on September 1, 2008 as a postdoctoral research fellow.
I completed my PhD in Computer Science at Harvard University in June 2008. Between January 2006 and June 2008, I worked as Chief Race Strategist for the ING Renault F1 Team Ltd. I also obtained an M.S. degree in Applied Mathematics from Harvard in 2003 and received my undergraduate degree with highest honours from McGill University in 2002.
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Areas of Interest:
Many problems in economics, business, and sociology exhibit complex network structure, as specified by the pattern of interactions between actors in a distributed system such as a co-author network, or a large firm, or even the Internet. The goal of my research is to understand both the impact of incentives on the formation and maintenance of network structures, and the role these structures play in determining and constraining system behavior. To that end, my research centers around the generation of principled models of networked systems and processes, and the development of mechanisms and policies to improve system outcomes. My work in this area has examined the formation of the Internet routing graph, content provisioning in peer-to-peer file-sharing systems, and technological collaboration agreements between firms. I am also interested in how firms solve strategic problems like project resource allocation and R&D portfolio investment, and the effects of competition and managers' risk aversion on strategic behaviour and its optimality. Previous work has involved the development and application of statistical game-theoretic models fitted to empirical data. |
Journal Publications
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