Short biography
Born in Les Escaldes-Engordany, Andorra, in 1970. B.A. (Ingénieur) at the École Polytechnique, 1992, and the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, 1994. Ph.D. at the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, and the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, 2000. Young Economist Award of the European Economic Association, 1999. Assistant Professor at the Universidad Carlos III in Madrid (2000-2002), Associate Professor and Ramón y Cajal Researcher at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (2002-2005), Part-time Full Professor at the Université de Tolulouse Sciences Sociales (2004-2006), Research Affiliate CEPR, London (2004-2007). Research Associate CERAS, 2000-2004. Associate Editor: Review of Economic Studies, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of the European Economic Association. More than 20 publications in international journals on Economics and Game Theory. Four Ph.D. students supervised.
Antoni Calvó passed away on November 3, 2007, at the age of 37.
Research interests
Antoni made important contributions on several subjects, and in a short time had become one of the leading theorists of his generation. Some of the highlights include his work on social networks in labor markets. He showed how patterns of employment and wages that were not well-understood with existing models could be explained when one takes into account the sharing of job information through networks. He also developed a simple but elegant network model of criminal behavior and other interactions that involve local network complementarities. The model provides an elegant connection between behavior and the centrality of players in the network, showing how the influence of players on equilibrium play can be accounted for with existing measures of how central a player is. In one paper, he showed how a mutual fire insurance scheme, called ``La Crema,'' used in the rural farm communities of Andorra could be understood as an efficient mechanism for sharing risk.
(Excerpt from the Journal of Economic Theory obituary).
Key words
Networks