Staff Details

Email: m.costagomes@abdn.ac.uk
Tel: 01224 272178
Fax: 01224 272181
Room: EW S69

SIRE Professor of Economics

B.A. (PCU), M.A. (University of California, San Diego), Ph.D. (University of California, San Diego).

Miguel Costa-Gomes joined the School in January 2008. Prior to joining Aberdeen he held positions at the California Institute of Technology, Harvard Business School (Harvard University), IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, the ISER - Osaka University, and the University of York.

Miguel's research interests lie in game theory as part of empirical economics.
Mostly, he uses experimental methods to study strategic thinking in non-cooperative games.

• (Costa-Gomes, M.A., Crawford, V.P. and Iriberri, N.), Comparing Models of Strategic Thinking in Van Huyck, Battalio, and Beil’s Coordination Games, Journal of the European Economic Association, vol. 7, pp 365-376, 2009
• (Costa-Gomes, M.A. and Weizsäcker, G.), Stated Beliefs and Play in Normal-Form Games, Review of Economic Studies, vol. 75, pp. 729-762, 2008

• (Costa-Gomes, M.A., and Crawford, Vincent P.), Cognition and Behavior in Two-Person Guessing Games: An Experimental Study, American Economic Review, Vol. 96, pp 1737-1768, 2006
• (Costa-Gomes, M.A., and Zauner, Klaus G.), Learning, Non-equilibrium Beliefs, and Non-pecuniary Payoff Uncertainty in an Experimental Game, Economic Theory, Vol 22, pp. 263-288, 2003
• (Costa-Gomes, M.A., ), A Suggested Interpretation of some Experimental Results on Preplay Communication, Journal of Economic Theory, Vol 104, pp 104-136, 2002
• (Costa-Gomes, M.A., Crawford, Vincent and Broseta, Bruno), Cognition and Behavior in Normal-Form Games: An Experimental Study, Econometrica, Vol 69, pp 1193 - 1235, 2001
• (Costa-Gomes, M.A., and Zauner, Klaus G.), Ultimatum Bargaining Behavior in Israel, Japan, Slovenia and the United States: A Social Utility Analysis, Games and Economic Behavior, Vol 34, pp 238-269, 2001

• EC 4023

• BU 5933

• EC 4023

• BU 5933