Microeconomic Theory and Applications researchers at CATÓLICA-LISBON are at the forefront of research in the field of microeconomics, and create influential and specific research on the multidisciplinary areas they each devote themselves to. Made up of seven integrated members, the group relies on over twenty years of postdoctoral experience for its most senior members.
Members of this research group have focused in publishing their research in top journals and presenting it in international conferences. Throughout their careers, members of this research area have seen their work published in some of the top journals in the field of economics, including American Economic Review, Economic Theory, Economics Letters, and Games and Economic Behavior.
Microeconomics at CATÓLICA-LISBON not only relies on senior faculty who have dedicated decades to their research work, but also has been a research group focused on attracting recent PhD holding researchers from international business schools.
Research by this group’s members has had strong and observable policy and societal impacts. Several research members in Microeconomic Theory and Practice at CATÓLICA-LISBON have high public profiles in Portuguese media and policy making, having even held high offices at the national regulator of telecommunications, ANACOM, at the scientific council of the Gulbenkian Foundation Program on Innovation in Healthcare, or on the Board of Trustees of the Portuguese Agency for Assessment and Accreditation of Higher Education - A3ES, in charge of ensuring the quality of higher education.