Teaching

I am currently teaching the following courses:

Undergraduate program (B.Sc. Economics)

• Intermediate Microeconomics: Information Economics  (jointly with Mery Ferando.) 

Graduate program (Center Graduate School – Research Master Economics) 

• Competition and Regulation 
• Micro-Economics 3: Part 1: Information Economics 
• Co-organizer reading group in Applied Economic Theory
• Co-organizer reading group Auction Theory

Thesis Supervision 

• Each year I supervise about 5 Bachelor or Master theses.
  Below you find some general information about how to find information in the field.
• Finding a policy questions ? 
  • Euraktiv / Politco  (EU news – views of Commission and  stakeholders)
  • EUI Florence School of Regulation 
  • CERRE Centre on Regulation in Europe (market regulation, cross-sectoral aspects)
  • Bruegel (industrial policy / macro-aspects)
• Finding literature I: Next to the main economics journals, the following journals focus on energy economics in particular
  • Energy Economics, Energy Journal 
  • Energy Policy, Economics of Energy & Environmental Policy  (focus on policy) 
  • Journal of Environmental Economics and Management,  Resource and Energy Economics (focus on environmental / resource economics)
• Finding literature II: I recommend students to check some of the abstracts of recent conferences: 
  • Mannheim Energy Conference (energy economics, including some legal / managerial aspects )
  • Toulouse Energy Conference (energy – environmental economics)
  • UCEI Berkeley Energy Conference (empirics – focus on US/Californian markets ) 
• I advise students to contact me with 1 or 2 one-page proposals containing motivation, research question and a proposed methodology.

• Possible topics include
  • Competition policy (vertical restraints, collusion, bundling)
  • Modeling investments (real options, flexibility in technologies)
  • Design of electricity and gas markets (market clearing rules, risk sharing) 
  • Policy evaluation – Cost benefit analysis 
  • Law and Economics (Economic discussion of a particular decision by ECJ, or new regulations)