Microeconomic Research Unit (MRU)
The aim of MRU is to facilitate communication and corporation between members of the unit and establish common research themes. The main activities of MRU are seminars, workshops, coordination and development of teaching in microeconomics and coordination of applications for external funding
The Microeconomic Research Unit (MRU) was founded autumn 2008 at the Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen.
MRU was established in order to provide a platform for research and teaching in microeconomics.
The research of MRU concentrates primarily on theory building on the microeconomic approach to economics. The members conduct both basic and applied research
Current areas of research include:
- information economics
- game theory
- behavioral economics
- industrial organization
- contract theory
- mechanism design
- political economy
- health economics
- financial markets
Members
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| Altmann, Steffen | Associate Professor | Behavioral Economics, Experimental Economics, Organizational Economics, Labor Economics, Public Policy, Nudges, Default Options |
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| Bjerre-Nielsen, Andreas | Associate Professor | Educational public policy; AI for public policy; Social Networks |
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| Keiding, Hans | Professor Emeritus | Professor emeritus |
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| Kyritsaki, Anna-Maria | PhD Fellow |
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| Lagerlöf, Johan | Associate Professor | Applied Theory; Industrial Organization; Political Economy; Microeconomics |
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| Mahlstedt, Robert | Assistant Professor - Tenure Track | Labor Economics; Behavioral Economics; Public Policy Evaluation; Applied Microeconometrics; Job Search and Unemployment |
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| Munk-Nielsen, Anders | Associate Professor | Empirical Industrial Organization; Structural Microeconometrics; Health Economics; Discrete Choice; Transportation Economics |
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| Nesje, Frikk | Associate Professor | Environmental Economics; Economics of Climate Change; Economics of Natural Resources; Welfare Economics; Game Theory |
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| Salmi, Julia | External Researcher |
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| Starkov, Egor | Assistant Professor - Tenure Track | Applied Theory, Information Economics, Industrial Organization, Behavioral Economics |
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| Strabo, Jacob Richard Bøggild | PhD Fellow | Political Economics; Theoretical Microeconomics; Social Choice Theory; Education & Self-Selection; Social Inequality |
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| Sørensen, Peter Norman | Professor | Asymmetric Information in Finance and Economics; Herding Behavior; Prediction Markets; Microstructure of Financial Markets |
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| Vikander, Nick | Associate Professor | Information Economics; Industrial Organization; Organizational Economics; Behavioral Economics |
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| Voigt, Stefan | Assistant Professor - Tenure Track | Market microstructure; financial econometrics; asset pricing; blockchain technology; big data in financial applications |
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Contact
Peter Norman Sørensen
Department of Economics
Øster Farimagsgade 5, building 26
DK-1353 Copenhagen K
Phone: +45 353 23056
e-mail: peter.sorensen@econ.ku.dk
Administrative assistant/web:
Christel Brink Hansen
Phone: (+45) 35 32 30 17