Esteban, Joan
Research Professor, CSIC
Ph.D. in Economics, Oxford University, 1988 and Doctor, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 1973.
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joan.esteban@iae.csic.es
Ph.D. in Economics, Oxford University, 1988 and Doctor, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 1973.
Webpage not available.
joan.esteban@iae.csic.es
Joan Esteban has been member of the Institute since its beginning in 1985. He has been its director from 1989 to 1991 and from 2001 to 2006. He has the coordinator of the EU funded research project "Polarization and Conflict", 2004-2008, www.polarizationandconflict.org <http://www.polarizationandconflict.org> , and now holds an Axa Research Fund grant. He is member of the executive council of the International Economic Association and Rey Jaime I laureate in Economics (2007). His research has been publised in the American Economic Review, American Political Science Review, Econometrica, Economics of Governance, Economics Letters, European Economic Review, International Economic Review, Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organization, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Economic Inequality, Journal of Peace Research, Regional Science and Urban Economics, Social Choice and Welfare, and Theory and Decision.
His main field of interest is the study of conflict and polarization. This topic covers many aspects ranging from individual and group behaviour to the role of political mechanisms in preventing open conflict, as well as the emergence of social agreements in the shadow of conflict. He also works on the polarization of distributions as an indicator of potential conflict. Other topics of interest are public finance, inequality, OLG models, behaviour under uncertainty, and regional economics.
