Recent Ph. D. Thesis

Microeconomics and Industrial Economics Research Group
Recent Ph. D. Thesis
Juan Becutti: “Essays on Microeconomics". Advisor: Angel Hernando (2014) Placement:
University of Bern.
Joseph Flavian Gomes: "Essays on Political Economy and Development”. Advisor: Klaus
Desmet (2014) Placement: University of Essex.
Nikolaos Tsakas: "On the Role of Imitation in Social Networks". Advisor: Antonio Cabrales
(2014) Placement: Singapore University of Technology and Design.
Anil Yildizparlak: “Essays on Contests and Conflicts”. Advisor: Luis Corchón (2014) Placement:
Durham Univeristy Business School.
Xiaojun Song: "Essays on nonparametric econometrics”. Advisor: Miguel Delgado (2014)
Placement: Peking University.
Arantxa Crespo: "Essays in Trade, Innovation and Productivity". Advisor: Klaus Desmet (2013)
Placement: European University Institute, Florence.
Maria Martín Rodríguez: “Essays on the role of information”. Advisor: Antonio Cabrales (2013)
Placement: School of Economics, Nagoya University, Japan.
Yavuz Selim Hacihasanoglu: “Essays on investment climate in developing countries”. Advisor:
Alvaro Escribano (2013) Placement: Central Bank of Turkey.
Alfredo Salgado: “Essays on two-sided matching and mechanism design". Advisor: Antonio
Romero (2013) Placement: Economista Senior en BBVA Research.
Ana Belén Lemus: "Essays on Price Regulation”. Advisor: Diego Moreno (2013) Placement:
Banco de España.
Ana Millan: “The choice to become self-employed and the decision to hire employees”.
Advisor: Belén Jerez (2013) Placement: Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona.
Zeynep Ozkok: “Essays on International Finance and Macroeconomics". Advisor: Klaus Desmet
(2013) Placement: St. Francis Xavier University, Canada.
Daniel García: “Essays on the Economic Theory of Organizations”. Advisor: Antonio Cabrales
(2012) Placement: Universidad de Viena.
Sevinc Cukurova: "Essays on information transmission in Financial Markets". Advisor: Antonio
Cabrales y María Gutierrez (2012) Placement: University of Helsinki.
Jesper Rudiger: “Essays in Information Transmission”. Advisor: Antonio Cabrales (2012)
Placement: European University Institute in Florence.
Ming Jin: “Essays on Asymmetric Information and Small Firms’ Finance”. Advisor: Belén Jerez
(2012) Placement: Post-doc, Department of Finance, University of Vienna.
Cecilia Avramovich: “Essays on Cartel Behavior and Deterrence Policy”. Advisor: Natalia Fabra
(2012) Placement: Teacher/Researcher en Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Argentina.
Roberts Waddle: “Strategic profit sharing between firms”. Advisor: José Luis Ferreira García
(2011) Placement: Embajada de Canadá. Haití.
María Dolores de la Mata: “Essays in Applied Health Economics”. Advisor: Matilde Machado
(2011) Placement: Universidad del Rosario. Bogotá.
Carlos J. Pérez González: “Bubbles, currency speculation and technology adoption”. Advisor:
Francisco Marhuenda (2011) Placement: Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Chile.
Galina Zudenkova: “Essays on Political Economy and Industrial Organization”. Advisor: Luis
Corchón e Ignacio Otuño (2010) Placement: Universitat Rovira i Virgili.
Antonio Miguel Osorio: “Essays in the theory of repeated games”. Advisor: Juan Pablo Rincón
Zapatero (2010) Placement: Universitat Rovira i Virgili.
Cristian Marius Litan: “Tres ensayos sobre teoría económica”. Advisor: Francisco Marhuenda
(2009) Placement: UBBFSEGA Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj Napoca.