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Massimo Egidi graduated in Physics and Mathematics from the University of Turin in 1964. From 1970 to 1986 he taught first at the Politecnico of Turin and then at the University of Turin. In 1987, he became Professor of Economics at the University of Trento, where he founded the Computation and Experimental Economics Laboratory. For the last four years he has been the University's Rector. His major research interests are in Experimental Economics, focusing in particular on organizational learning, on expectations formation, on procedural rationality, and on production and innovation theory.
Dan Friedman's 1977 dissertation on market dynamics (supervised by Stephen Smale) earned him a Mathematics PhD from University of California, Santa Cruz. He learned something about real-world finance and economics from two years at Bank of America, and then began his academic career at UCLA. He joined the UCSC Economics Department in 1985. Best known for his work in evolutionary game theory and laboratory markets, Dan is currently investigating e-commerce market institutions and the evolutionary foundations of behavioral economics.
Peter Howitt is Professor of Economics at Brown University. After receiving a PhD at Northwestern University under Bob Clower's supervision, he went to the University of Western Ontario where he taught from 1972 to 1994. He has written extensively on monetary economics, growth theory, Keynesian economics and the theory of unemployment. He and Clower are currently writing a book on money, markets and firms. From 1995 to 2000 he taught at the Ohio State University and from 2000 he is Professor at Brown University, Rhode Island
Steffen Huck's research is split between theory and experiments. His work on endogenous preferences and learning combines both. Topics he is currently working on range from mergers in Cournot markets to the role of trust in contractual relationships. He has also been recently working on limited memory and imperfect recall. He obtained his PhD from Humboldt University in 1996. Before joining Royal Holloway in 2000, he spent two years travelling, visiting Queen Mary, UCL, Texas A&M and Harvard
Axel Stig Bengt Leijonhufvud was born in Sweden. He came to the United States in 1960 to do graduate work and obtained his Ph.D. from Northwestern University. He taught at the University of California at Los Angeles from 1964 to 1994 and served repeatedly as Chairman of the Economics Department. In 1991, he started the Center for Computable Economics at UCLA and remained its Director until 1997. In 1995 he was appointed Professor of Monetary Theory and Policy at the University of Trento, Italy. His research has particularly dealt with the limits to an economy's ability to coordinate activities as revealed by great depressions, high inflations and (recently) transitions from socialist towards market economies.
Luigi Mittone graduated in Economics and Social Sciences from the University L. Bocconi of Milan, obtainend his Master of Social Sciences from the University of Birmingham, and his Doctor of Philosophy (Economics) from the University of Bristol. He is Associate Professor of Public Economics at the Department of Economics of the University of Trento and Vice President of TECS at the University of Trento. His major research interests are in "Public and Health Economics", in "Experimental economics", fiscal evasion theory, consumer behaviour; double auctions markets; mental modelling of uncertain events, and in "Computational economics", fiscal system dynamic with heterogeneous agents.
Rosemarie Nagel's 1994 dissertation is in the area of experimental economics on reasoning and learning in games supervised by Reinhard Selten, University of Bonn. She was a postdoc of Al Roth in Pittsburgh before she joined the faculty of economics of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona in 1995. Her work on the beauty contest game has received attention not only in academic circles but also in several newspapers where readers were asked to participate in the game. Currently, Rosemarie works on economic behavior in games and auctions.
Reinhard Selten graduated in Mathematics from the University of Frankfurt in 1957, obtained his Ph.D. in Mathematics in 1961 and his Habilitation in Economics in 1968. From 1969 to 1996, he taught at the universities of Berlin, Bielefeld and Bonn. Professor Selten's major research interests are in Game Theory, Oligopoly Theory and Experimental Economics. In 1994, he was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics for his pioneering work in non-cooperative game theory.
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