DECRIPTION OF THE PARTICIPANTS OF THE RTN
1. PARIS 1
Participants
Joseph ABDOU
http://cermsem.univ-paris1.fr/abdou
Jean-Marc BONNISSEAU
http://cermsem.univ-paris1.fr/bonnisseau/
Alain CHATEAUNEUF
http://cermsem.univ-paris1.fr/chateauneuf
Alessandro CITANNA
http://cermsem.univ-paris1.fr/citanna
Bernard CORNET
http://cermsem.univ-paris1.fr/cornet
Hervé CRES
http://cermsem.univ-paris1.fr/cres
Bernard DE MEYER
http://cermsem.univ-paris1.fr/demeyer
Monique FLORENZANO
http://cermsem.univ-paris1.fr/florenzano
Gael GIRAUD
http://cermsem.univ-paris1.fr/giraud
Pascal GOURDEL
http://cermsem.univ-paris1.fr/gourdel
Cuong LE VAN
http://cermsem.univ-paris1.fr/levan
2. BARCELONA
Joan Esteban
Joan Esteban
Roberto Burguet
Melvyn Coles
Flip Klin
Albert Marcet
Juan-Enrique Martinez-Legaz
Clara Ponsati
3. BIELEFELD
Participants
Prof. Albers
www.wiwi.uni-bielefeld.de/~imw/Members/WAlbers/
Prof. Böhm, PhD; webpage:
www.wiwi.uni-bielefeld.de/~boehm/
Prof. Dawid,
www.wiwi.uni-bielefeld.de/~dawid/
Prof. Eckwert;
www.wiwi.uni-bielefeld.de/~eckwert/
Prof. Flaschel; webpage:
www.wiwi.uni-bielefeld.de/~flaschel/
Prof. Rosenmüller;
www.wiwi.uni-bielefeld.de/~imw/Members/JR/
Prof. Trockel;
www.wiwi.uni-bielefeld.de/~imw/Members/WTrockel/
Dr. Wenzelburger;
www.wiwi.uni-bielefeld.de/~boehm/
4. COPENHAGEN
5. LISBOA
6. CORE, Université Catholique de Louvain
7. MAASTRICHT
8. VENICE
Presentation of the host institution:
The University of Venice has a long standing tradition in microeconomic research
both theoretical on general equilibrium, information economics and game theory and
applied on individidual behaviour and household behaviour. The Department of
Economics at the University of Venice ranks high amongst the economics
departments in Europe. In the area of general equilibrium and information economics
there are close ties with the Universities of Torino in Italy and various other
European, U.S. and Japanese Universities where various coauthors and collaborators
o members of the reserach unit in Venice are located.
Department of Economics
The Department of Economics provides excellent conditions for research. Such conditions
include: a richness of faculty members (covering from economic theory to econometrics);
lively and frequent seminars with speakers coming from Universities and Institutions
throughout the world (seminars are given in English), a significant number of visiting
academics and scholars also in relationship with VIU (Venice International University); good
facilities (supporting staff, computers, data, offices, library, etc.). A doctoral program is in
place which is part of the Quantitative Economics Doctorate, a Newtork among 6
European Universities collaborating in the exchange of students, staff and other joint
activities.
The Department has shown commitment to research and training of young researchers
as it has been granted for several years Training and Mobility of Researchers TMRfunding and it is currently in a newly awarded RTN-network (on the Economics of
Aging). Furthermore the members of the microeconomic research unit have been
awarded a contract under the Acciones Integradas programme for the exchange of
faculty and doctoral students, post-docs between the Universities of venezia and
Padova in Italy and Universitat Autonoma in Barcelona.
Current activities of the research group in the Department of Economics
The research group includes Piero Gottardi scientist in charge, Sergio Currarini,
Marco LiCalzi, Maria Cristina Molinari, Agar Brugiavini (all located in Venice) as
well as Paolo Ghirardato (located at the University of Torino). These are all scientists
involved in joint research projects on general equilibrium with incomplete markets,
information economics, game theory, which are mainly developed at the Department
of Economics University of Venice. Currently 2 PhD-students, 1 postdoctoral fellow
and 1 visiting Ph.D. student are also associated with the group. Other researchers
rom various international universities who have been collaborating with members of
the group have been visiting the Department in Venice on a regular basis each year to
work on joint projects: Alberto Bisin (New York University), Atsushi Kajii (ISER,
Osaka University), Jean-Marc Tallon (Eurequa, Paris), Douglas Gale (New York
University), Subir Chattopadhyay (Universitat Alicante), Hans Hvide (NHH, Bergen),
Felix Kubler (Stanford University), Ronel Elul (Wharton School.
Participants
Piero Gottardi
http://helios.unive.it/~gottardi/
Marco LiCalzi
http://helios.unive.it/~licalzi/
Sergio Currarini
http://helio.unive.it/~currarin
Agar Brugiavini
http://helios.unive.it/~brugiavi/
Maria Cristina Molinari
http://helios.unive.it/~cmolinar/
9. VIENNA
Description of the Department of Economics at the University of
Vienna
The Department of Economics at the University of Vienna consists currently of about
30 researchers. The core of the research activities is the analysis of the organization of
markets and firms. This topic is investigated from different angles and by using the
most advanced methods of microeconomics, macroeconomics, and econometrics. Our
research is concentrated on the fields of general equilibrium theory, incomplete
markets, imperfect competition, information economics, social choice, public
economics, evolutionary economics, game theory, and econometrics. Some colleagues
also do excellent research in other fields that complement the core of our research
activities.
There exist several studies measuring the research output of economic departments
based on publications in refereed international scientific journals. All these studies
show that our department provides the quantitatively and qualitatively best research
output in economics in Austria. We range among the top three of all economic
departments within the German speaking area – out of about seventy economics
departments – and among the top twenty of all economics departments within Europe
– out of several hundred economics departments. (See “Ranking of Academic
Journals and Institutions in Economics,” P. Kalaitzidakis, T. Mamuneas, and T.
Stengos, Discussion Paper 2001-10, University of Cyprus).
By using modern methods the department aims to provide high quality, internationally
acknowledged economic research. The resulting papers should be published in the
best international journals.
We put a strong emphasis on the connection between research and teaching.
Therefore, our teaching program reflects the orientation towards methodologically
sound and theoretically based economics. Results of research projects are typically
presented in courses for advanced students.
Our department also benefits from close collaboration with the Institute for Advanced
Studies in Vienna mainly through joint courses for PhD. Students and a joint research
seminar.
Participants
Carlos Alos-Ferrer
http://mailbox.univie.ac.at/Carlos.Alos-Ferrer
Ana B. Ania-Martinez
http://mailbox.univie.ac.at/Ana-Begona.Ania-Martinez/
Egbert Dierker
Leo Kaas
http://mailbox.univie.ac.at/~kaasl9/
Manfred Nermuth
http://mailbox.univie.ac.at/Manfred.Nermuth/
Gerhard Orosel
http://mailbox.univie.ac.at/Gerhard.Orosel/
Gerhard Sorger (accepted an offer from Vienna, but is still in England)
http://www.qmw.ac.uk/~ugte183/
Andreas Wagener
http://mailbox.univie.ac.at/andreas.wagener/
10. WARWICK
The Department of Economics at Warwick has an outstanding international reputation for
research in several areas of economics, including microeconomic theory, macroeconomics,
industrial economics, labour economics, public economics, and also applied and theoretical
econometrics and economic history. The department offers a number of undergraduate degree
programmes, and taught Masters programmes in Economics, Economic Analysis and Policy,
and Economics and Finance. It also has a thriving PhD programme with around 50 research
students. It was awarded the maximum possible rating of 24/24 in the recent national QAA
Subject Review (2001) and a rating of 5* (the highest possible) in the last UK Research
Assessment Exercise.
The Department has an established staff of over forty researchers and was recently ranked No.
2 in the UK by The Times Good University Guide. Over the last two decades the department
has achieved the top quality research ranking (grade 5) in every year that the UK government
has assessed departmental quality. Only three other British Economics Departments have
achieved this.
Last year around thirteen hundred people applied to do graduate work in economics at
Warwick. The Department is raising its profile in attracting research funds and is developing
both a Centre for Public Economic Theory and a Centre for Applied Economics. One notable
success is its participation with the Politics Department in the multi-million pound ESRC
Centre for Globalisation and Regionalisation.
The Warwick researchers directly involved with this proposal include experts in public and
political economics, social choice, game theory, and computational general equilibrium. Four
members of the team are Fellows of the Econometric Society. A number of the researchers
also are engaged in empirical projects to study a number of policy issues, including
environmental economics, tax competition, and civil society.
Participants
Charles Blackorby
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/staff/faculty/blackorby/
Jonathan Cave
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/staff/faculty/cave/
Amrita Dhillon
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/staff/faculty/dhillon/
Bhaskar Dutta
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/staff/faculty/dhillon/
Sayantan Ghosal
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/staff/faculty/ghosal/
Matt Haag
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/staff/faculty/haag/
Ben Lockwood
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/staff/faculty/lockwood/
John Whalley
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/staff/faculty/whalley/
Myrna Wooders
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/staff/faculty/wooders/