Oihane Gallo

Oihane Gallo is a Tenured Scientist at the Institute for Economic Analysis (IAE-CSIC) and an Affiliated Professor at the Barcelona School of Economics (BSE).

Professor Gallo is a microeconomic theorist whose research interests lie in Game Theory and Social Choice. Her work focuses on coalition formation, aiming to understand how groups form in societies where monetary resources must be divided among agents, and how the structure of these groups can provide insights into social issues such as conflicts or segregation.

Her main contributions include axiomatic characterizations of sharing rules that guarantee stability—a key concept in coalition formation—as well as the design of mechanisms that lead to stable group outcomes.

Professor Gallo also works on preference aggregation, studying mechanisms that satisfy desirable properties such as strategy-proofness and efficiency. Her models and results, which are closely related to voting settings, connect her research in Social Choice Theory with the Political Economy literature.

Her work has been published in international journals such as Theoretical Economics and Games and Economic Behavior.

Before joining IAE-CSIC and BSE, Professor Gallo was an Assistant Professor (Lector Serra Húnter) at the University of Barcelona and a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Lausanne. 

She earned her PhD in Economics from the University of the Basque Country.