Microeconomics and Industrial Organization
- Grupos de investigación
- Economics
- Microeconomics and Industrial Organization
- Group head:
- Antonio Cabrales Goitia
- Email:
- acabrale@eco.uc3m.es
- Group web:
- Microeconomics and Industrial Organization
Lines of research
- Competition regulations and policies in deregulated sectors (Energy, Telecommunications, Transport): market organization , investment in capacity, reliability, interaction between the retail and wholesale markets, market power, vertical integration and futures markets
- Auctions: budget restrictions and auto-financing, public and secret reserve prices
- Competitive markets: transaction costs, trade flows, imperfect information
- Social networks: strategic models for forming networks, effects and economic applications of the social networks.
- Experimental economy: auctions, futures markets, imperfect competition, restrictions on capacity in organized markets, experimental design of markets
- Theory of the behavior of economic agents: limited rationality, learning and social evolution, altruistic preferences, cognitive paths, psychology and economics, behavior and design of institutions
- Contracts and incentives: multilateral contracts, design of contracts in the face of externalities
- Corporate governance: mechanisms for the internal control of companies, the role of leadership in the theory of incentives in organizations
- Environmental economy: agrarian markets and PAC, agrarian productivity, land use, desertification, georeferenced spacial models, efficiency and adaptation to the business environment
Contact email: research@uc3m.es