​miguel Ballester
Associate Professor
Department of Economics
Markets, Organizations and Votes in Economics (MOVE)
Spain
Biography
He an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Oxford. In the main part of his research, he study individual decision-making with a special interest on its psychological foundations. He aim to better understand the relevant behavioral traits affecting individual decisions and their welfare implications. He is also interested in collective decision-making procedures, with a special focus on collective welfare. He have lectured several Microeconomics subjects, both at the undergraduate and graduate level. ​As part of his Oxford professorial life, he is also the Lord Thomson of Fleet Fellow at Balliol College, wherehe is a Tutor in Economics. This post involves preparing Balliol students for the different microeconomic subjects they face in their undergraduate and graduate studies at the University of Oxford.
Research Interest
collective decision-making procedures, Microeconomics
Publications
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Single-Crossing Random Utility Models
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A Measure of Rationality and Welfare
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A characterization of the single-peaked domain