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JOSE A. RODRIGUES-NETO

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BIOGRAPHY

Jose A. Rodrigues-Neto is an academic working at the Research School of Economics (RSE) of the Australian National University (ANU).

Jose loves his family, as well as research and teaching activities.

Jose coordinates some of the most prestigious and successful coursework postgraduate programs in Economics in Australasia, at the RSE/ANU. These selective, high quality programs, including the Masters of Economics, educate hundreds of future leaders in academia, private sector and government, the intellectual elite in Economics.

Research Interests:
Game Theory
Information Structures

Social Status Concerns

Microeconomic Theory

Applied Economic Theory: IO, Law and Economics, Public Economics

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PUBLICATIONS

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Self-Consistency, Consistency and Cycles in Non-Partitional Knowledge Models

Mathematical Social Sciences 87 (2017), 11-21, with Luciana C. Fiorini

Dress to Impress: Brands as Status Symbols

Games and Economic Behavior 82 (2013), 103-131, with Rogério Mazali.

From Posteriors to Priors via Cycles

Journal of Economic Theory 144 (2009), 876-883.

Representing Roommates Preferences' with Symmetric Utilities

Journal of Economic Theory 135 (2007), 545-550.

OTHER REFEREED PUBLICATIONS

Mixed oligopoly, cost-reducing research and development, and privatisation

Gil-Molto, M.J., Poyago-Theotoky, J., Rodrigues-Neto, J. and Zikos V.

European Journal of Operational Research 283-3 (2020), 1094-1106.

Teaching technologies, attendance, learning and the optimal level of access to online materials

Gomis-Porqueras, P. and Rodrigues-Neto, J.

Economic Modelling 73 (2018), 329-343.

Competitive Equilibrium with Restricted Participation: The Case of Circular Trade

Fiorini, L., Maldonado, W. and Rodrigues-Neto, J.
Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 174-3 (2018), 514-547.

Beliefs and Public Good Provision with Anonymous Contributors

Maldonado, W. and Rodrigues-Neto, J.
(Lead Article)
Journal of Public Economic Theory 18-5 (2016), 691-708.

Monotonic Knowledge Models, Cycles, Linear Versions and Auctions with Differential, Finite Information

Rodrigues-Neto, J.
The Economic Record 91, Issue Supplement S1 (2015), 25-37.

Monotonic Models and Cycles

Rodrigues-Neto, J.
International Journal of Game Theory 43, Issue 2 (2014), 403-413.

On Corruption, Bribes and the Exchange of Favors

Rodrigues-Neto, J.
Economic Modelling 38 (2014), 152-162.

Is Policy Too Important to be Left to Empiricists? Lessons of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Economics

Cornes, R. and Rodrigues-Neto, J.
Agenda: A Journal of Policy Analysis and Reform 20-2 (2013), 61-76.

Acyclic Roommates

Rodrigues-Neto, J.
Economics Letters 118, Issue 2 (2013), 304-306.

The Cycles Approach

Rodrigues-Neto, J.
Journal of Mathematical Economics 48 (2012), 207-211.

New Technologies in Higher Education: Lower Attendance and Worse Learning Outcomes?

Gomis-Porqueras, P., Meinecke, J. and Rodrigues-Neto, J.
Agenda: A Journal of Policy Analysis and Reform 18-1 (2011), 69-83.

Climate Change Policy: A Theorist's Plea to Take Heed of Game Theory and Ambiguity Aversion

Rodrigues-Neto, J.
Agenda: A Journal of Policy Analysis and Reform 15-2 (2008), 85-90.

BOOK REVIEWS

The Republic of Beliefs: A New Approach to Law and Economics

Rodrigues-Neto, J.

The Economic Record, The Economic Society of Australia, vol. 95 (2019), Issue 309, 273-274.

Game Theory, An Introduction, by Steven Tadelis
Rodrigues-Neto, J.
The Economic Record, The Economic Society of Australia, vol. 90 (2014), Issue 291, 551-552.

Mathematics for Economists Made Simple, by Viatcheslav V. Vinogradov
Rodrigues-Neto, J.
The Economic Record, The Economic Society of Australia, vol. 87 (2011), Issue 277 (06), 349-350.

WORK IN PROGRESS

- Civil litigation, contest theory (with Ben Chen)
- Attack, defense, and the market for protection (with Simona Fabrizi and Steffen Lippert)
- The role of incomplete information in the Cournot duopoly (with Scott McCracken)
- Status goods (with Rogerio Mazali)
- Information structures (with James Taylor)

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COURSES

MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES FOR ECONOMIC ANALYSIS

The course teaches the mathematical foundations of models in economics, business and finance and its applications. Mathematical topics covered include set theory, functions, series, limits, univariate and multivariate calculus, unconstrained and constrained optimisation, matrix algebra. Applications include effective interest rates, present value, annuities, production functions, average and marginal cost functions, profit maximisation.

MICROECONOMIC ANALYSIS

The course examines how individuals and firms make decisions by weighing up costs and benefits, and how the interaction of their decisions leads to market and social outcomes. The model of market supply and demand is employed to examine the effects of taxes, subsidies, and other government interventions in market activity. The implications of different market structures, including perfect competition and monopoly, are examined. Public goods, externalities and common resources are key examples of cases in which private markets may yield socially sub-optimal outcomes. Such cases are examined and the role of government policy in correcting for these is discussed.

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