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Description

The aim of the research group is to analyse the economic and social behaviour of economic and social agents, from an interdisciplinary perspective based on methodologies of economic analysis, game theory, quantitative, experimental and computational methods.

Goals CT
  • Develop theoretical models based mainly on information economics, incomplete contract theory and game theory.
  • Obtain experimental, computational and empirical contrasts of theoretical predictions.
Research lines
  • Industrial economics

    Industrial Economics combines theories with empirical work on the organisation of enterprises, markets and industries.

  • Environment and economic resources

    Analysis of the international cooperation for solving environmental problems (climate change), using methodology from game theory.

  • Cooperation and cultural transmission

    Dynamic analysis of the horizontal and vertical transmission of cultural values. Interaction and cooperation between individuals.

  • Microeconomics and game theory

    Analysis of the individual optimising behaviour and in strategic situations. Analysis of the strategic behaviour under uncertainty. Dynamic analysis of the creation of networks in complex processes of socioeconomic interaction.

  • Transport economics

    Analysis of the pricing systems, the impact of externalities on transport, the competitiveness between means of transport, the effects of changes in the regulator system in the transport market, the study of productivity and efficiency in the transport industry.

  • Behavioural economics

    Analysis through Experimental Economics, using laboratory experiments, of economic and social phenomena that are difficult to observe in a natural way.

  • Applied industrial economics and quantitative methods

    The most recent econometric methods to analise the economic theories of industrial organisation are applied in this area.

Associated structure
Interdisciplinary Research Structure for Economic and Social Behaviour (ERI-CES)
Contact group details
Economic and Social Behavior (CES)

Tarongers Campus

Av. dels Tarongers, s/n

46022 València (Valencia)

+34 963 828 207

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amparo.urbano@uv.es