David Pérez-Castrillo

Deputy Director, MSc in the Economics of Science and Innovation; Faculty member, IDEA

David Pérez-Castrillo is Professor of Economics at the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona. He has a PhD in Economics from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, in Paris. His research interests are in Research and Development, Economics of Information, and Game Theory. He is currently involved in research related with mechanism design and technology policy. Among other duties, he has been president of the Social Science Commission for Research Evaluation for the Catalan Government, General Secretary of the South-European Association of Economic Theory, and Officer of the Executive Committee of the European Association of Research in Industrial Economics.

He has published in leading journals such as American Economic Review, Journal of Economic Theory, Games and Economic Behavior, and Research Policy and obtained the Distinció de la Generalitat de Catalunya for young researchers in 2001, and the ICREA Academia Award. He received the Arrow Prize in Theoretical Economics in 2006. He has been a visiting professor at many universities, such as the University of California, San Diego, the University of Copenhagen, and the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.

R&D, economics of information, game theory

- "Licensing of University Inventions: The Role of a Technology Transfer Office", International Journal of Industrial Organization, forthcoming. (with I. Macho-Stadler and R. Veugelers)

- "Sharing the Surplus: A Just and Efficient Proposal for Environemts with Externalities" (joint with I. Macho-Stadler and D. Wettstein), Journal of Economic Theory 135, 339-356, 2007.

- "Licensing of University Inventions: The Role of a Technology Transfer Office" (joint with I. Macho-Stadler and R. Veugelers), International Journal of Industrial Organization 25, 483-510, 2007.