A native of Portugal, Luís Cabral is a graduate of Stanford University (PhD, Economics, 1989). He taught at the London Business School, Berkeley, Yale, NYU and IESE. He is currently the Paganelli-Bull Professor of Economics and International Business at NYU’s Stern School of Business as well as Chair of the Economics Department.  Luís’ research topics include reputation, learning, network effects, sunk costs, innovation, strategic risk choice. In addition to numerous journal articles, he is the author of Introduction to Industrial Organization, a textbook translated and adopted by universities worldwide.

David Byrne is Associate Director of Research at The Centre for Market Design, and a senior economics lecturer at the University of Melbourne. He is an applied econometrician with a focus on industrial economics, with research interests in the areas of cable TV, petrol, pharmaceuticals, and electricity. David completed his PhD at Queen’s University in 2007. He works at the intersection of industrial organisation and econometrics. He develops theory-based structural econometric models to empirically evaluate the design, performance, and structure of markets.

Catherine de Fontenay is an academic economist who has researched and taught across Australia. Prior to joining MBS, Catherine held positions at the University of New South Wales and the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies at ANU. She has  extensive teaching and program directing expertise, and her research interests include development economics, industrial organisation, and organisational economics.

Simona joined the Economics Department at the University of Auckland in August 2016. Prior to this she was a Senior Lecturer in Economics at Massey University (2007-2016). She received her PhD in Economics in 2003 from the Toulouse School of Economics and the University of Bologna. Simona is a co-founder of the Research Network for Applied and Theoretical Economics (ATE) and a member of the Centre for Mathematical Social Science (CMSS).

Jun Xiao is an economics lecturer at the University of Melbourne. Jun received his PhD from the Pennsylvania State University in 2011 before joining the University of Melbourne in 2012. His research interests relate to industrial organisation and game theory. A particular research focus is on models of bargaining and contests, and their applications.

Steffen joined the Economics Department at the University of Auckland in July 2014. Prior to this he taught Economics at the University of Otago, at Massey University, and was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Research Institute of Industrial Economics in Stockholm. He received his PhD in Economics in 2005 from the Toulouse School of Economics and Mannheim University. His research focuses on Industrial Economics, the Economics of Innovation, and the Economics of Social Interaction and Networks. He is a co-founder of the Research Network for Applied and Theoretical Economics (ATE).

Nisvan Erkal is a Professor of Economics at the University of Melbourne. She received her PhD from the University of Maryland, College Park. In 2007 and 2011, she was a Visiting Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley. Nisvan’s research interests are in the areas of industrial organisation (innovation and competition policy) and experimental economics (belief updating, corruption, cultural integration, and charitable giving). She is on the Executive Committee of Intertic, an international Think Tank on Innovation and Competition, and a member of the Asia-Pacific Innovation Network.

Simon Loertscher is the Director of the Centre for Market Design and a Professor of Economics at the University of Melbourne. Simon received his PhD from the University of Bern. Prior to joining the University of Melbourne, he was an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Columbia University in New York City. His research interests relate to industrial organisation. A particular research focus is on models of market micro-structure and market making in environments with two-sided private information.

 Zhijun Chen is a senior lecturer at Monash University. He received his PhD in Economics from Toulouse School of Economics. His research focuses on Industrial Organisation, Competition Policy, and Applied Microeconomics, and his research papers are published in leading economics journals, including the American Economic Review, the Rand Journal of Economics, the Journal of Law and Economics, and the European Economic Review.

Matthew Shum’s research lies at the intersection of industrial organisation, econometrics, and applied microeconomics. He is trying to understand how rational consumer behaviour actually is in the field, whether equilibrium models of rational decision making are appropriate for firms, and how optimal real-life firms behave. Matt was previously on the faculty at Johns Hopkins University from 2000 to 2008. Before that, he was on the faculty at the University of Toronto from 1998 to 2000.

Michelle Sovinsky’s research focuses on using game-theoretic modelling with empirical analysis to examine policy issues in industrial organisation and applied health. Her research covers a wide range of topics including individual-decision making under limited information and the implications for firms’ decisions and market power; and the antitrust implications of research collaboration or advertising expenditures, the analysis of decisions concerning long-term care for the elderly; how individuals make risky decisions concerning their health, drug use, or eating behaviours.

Marcus Asplund received his PhD in Economics from the Stockholm School of Economics in 1996. He has been a Professor of Economics at the Copenhagen Business School since 2012. Follow the link to find out more about Marcus.

John Asker is a Professor of Economics at UCLA. His research covers topics related to antitrust policy, cartel behaviour, vertical restraints, the competitive impact of mergers, auction design, firm-level productivity and the effects of industry subsidies. He is also Co-editor of American Economic Journal: Microeconomics and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.