Prof. Miguel Costa-Gomes
Head of School, Professor of Economics
Contact details
- Tel: +44(0)1316504515
- Email: miguel.costa-gomes@ed.ac.uk
Address
- Street
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Room 1.01
30/31 Buccleuch Place - City
- Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH8 9JT
Availability
Office Hours:
Wednesday 12.00 - 13.00
Background
Miguel A. Costa-Gomes studied at Universidade Católica Portuguesa (Católica Lisbon School of Business and Economics), Universidade Nova de Lisboa (NOVA SBE) and at the University of California, San Diego. He held posts at Harvard University (Harvard Business School), IBM T.J. Watson Research Center and at the Universities of York, Aberdeen, and St. Andrews before coming to Edinburgh in 2022.
He has held visiting academic positions at the California Institute of Technology and the Institute of Social and Economic Research at Osaka University.
Prior to joining the University of Edinburgh as Head of the School of Economics and Professor in Economics, he was Professor and Deputy Head of the School of Economics and Finance at the University in St. Andrews.
He is a past member of the editorial board of the American Economic Review, and also a past advisory editor of Games and Economic Behavior.
He was a member of the "Individuals, Markets and Organisations (SH1)" (i.e., Economics, Finance and Management) European Research Council Starting Grants panel in 2021, 2023 and 2025.
Open to PhD supervision enquiries?
Yes
Areas of interest for supervision
Before joining Edinburgh I supervised PhD students as their main supervisor at the Universities of York, Aberdeen and St. Andrews. I am open to supervision in the areas of Experimental Economics, Behavioural Economics and Game theory as part Empirical Economics.
Research summary
Game theory as part of empirical economics, behavioural economics and experimental economics.