Antonio Cabrales

Bio

Antonio Cabrales holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, San Diego and a B.A. from Universidad Complutense. He has been a Professor and Head of the department of Economics at University College London, and a Professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. He is also the executive vice president of the European Economic Association and former president of the Spanish Economic Association and honorary fellow at both associations. He is also a fellow of the Econometric Society and the Royal Economic Society. He holds the King Jaume I prize in Economics, 2021, and the Julián Marís prize in Social Science 2024. He works in the economics of networks and mechanism design, learning and evolutionary games, experimental and behavioral economics, and industrial organization. He is associate editor at the Journal of Economic Theory, and formerly an editor of the Berkeley Electronic Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy and Investigaciones Económicas, as well as former associate editor of the Journal of the European Economic Association and SERIEs.

 Main Publications

Antonio Cabrales, Manu García, David Ramos Muñoz, and Angel Sánchez (2025), “The Interactions of Social Norms about Climate Change: Science, Institutions and Economics.” European Economic Review, 178: 105107. 

Ghazala Azmat, Manuel Bagues, Antonio Cabrales and Nagore Iriberri (2019), What you know... Can't hurt you? A natural field experiment on relative performance feedback in higher education. Management Science, 65: 3714-3736.

Antonio Cabrales, Olivier Gossner and Roberto Serrano (2013), Entropy and the value of information for investors. American Economic Review, 103:360-377.

Antonio Cabrales, Raffaele Miniaci, Marco Piovesan and Giovanni Ponti (2010), Social Preferences and Strategic Uncertainty: an Experiment on Markets and Contracts. American Economic Review, 100:2261-2278.

Antonio Cabrales, Antoni Calvó-Armengol and Nicola Pavoni (2008), Social Preferences, Skill Segregation and Wage Dynamics. Review of Economic Studies, 75:65-98.

Antonio Cabrales, Antoni Calvó-Armengol and Matthew O. Jackson (2003), La Crema: A Case Study of Mutual Fire Insurance. Journal of Political Economy, 111:425-458.

Recent Research

Siddhartha Bandyopadhyay, Antonio Cabrales and Kaustav Das (2026), “To catch a thief: Endogenous policing and choice of location by criminals.”

Antonio Cabrales and Esther Hauk (2026), “Optimally designing purpose and meaning at work.”

Pablo Brañas-Garza, Antonio Cabrales, Jaromír Kovářík, and Mónica Vasco (2026), “Friends, enemies, and the risk of bullying in schools.”

Antonio Cabrales and Esther Hauk (2025), “Parental educational styles with externalities.”

Antonio Cabrales, Lorenzo Ductor, Ericka Rascón-Ramírez, and Ismael Rodríguez-Lara (2025), “Gender stereotypes and homophily in team formation.”