Prof Ed Hopkins
Professor of Economics
Address
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Room 2.03
31 Buccleuch Place - City
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Availability
Office Hours:
Thursday 12.00 - 13.00
Background
Ed Hopkins studied at Oxford University, LSE and the European University Institute, in Florence, Italy.
He has been at Edinburgh since 1995, but in that time he has also been a visitor at the EUI, the University of Pittsburgh, the University of California, Santa Barbara, the California Institute of Technology and the University of British Columbia.
Ed’s research is in game theory and more generally microeconomic theory. He has worked on several aspects of behavioural and social economics, including status concerns, tournaments, learning, inequality and marriage matching. He has also worked on experiments to test some predictions of learning theory.
Research summary
Game theory
Social economics
Evolutionary game theory
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Information choice in a social learning experiment
(21 pages)
In:
Games and Economic Behavior, vol. 118, pp. 295-315
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geb.2019.06.008
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Lone wolf or herd animal? Information choice and learning from others
Research output: › Working paper (Published) -
Inequality and risk-taking behaviour
In:
Games and Economic Behavior, vol. 107, pp. 316-328
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geb.2017.11.007
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Marriage as a rat race: Noisy pre-marital investments with assortative matching
In:
Journal of Political Economy, vol. 124, pp. 992-1045
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1086/686748
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Competitive altruism, mentalizing, and signaling
(21 pages)
In:
American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, vol. 6, pp. 272-292
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1257/mic.6.4.272
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published)