Investigador
Roberto Serrano is the Harrison S. Kravis University Professor of Economics at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, USA, and Research Professor at IMDEA Social Sciences in Madrid, Spain. He has held visiting appointments at the Center for Rationality of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, and CEMFI. His fields of interest are micro-economics and game theory. He has made contributions to implementation theory and mechanism design, bargaining and auction theory, the economics of uncertainty and information, and the theory of general economic equilibrium. Dr Serrano received his PhD in Economics from Harvard University in 1992. He also holds an MA in Economics from Harvard University and a BA in Economics from Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain. Prof. Serrano has published one book and over forty articles in leading economics, game theory and applied mathematics journals, including Econometrica, Review of Economic Studies, Journal of Economic Theory, Games and Economic Behavior, International Journal of Game Theory, and SIAM Review. He is currently or has been an Associate Editor of three economics journals: Economic Theory, Mathematical Social Sciences, and Research in Economics. He has also served as referee for many prestigious international journals, publishers and institutions. Prof. Serrano has given numerous invited lectures at the best economic and game theory seminars and international conferences. He also was the Chair of the Program Committee for the 2004 North American Summer Meeting of the Econometric Society. Dr Serrano is a Member of the Council of the Game Theory Society since 2005 and was one of its founding Charter Members in 1999. He has received a number of awards and prizes for his research, including the Fundación Banco Herrero Prize to the best Spanish economist under 40 in 2004, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship in 1998, the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Merit Fellowship in 1991, and Prizes from Spain's National Organization for the Blind in 1993 and 1988. His research has been supported by grants from several institutions, including the US National Science Foundation, the US-Israel Binational Science Foundation, the Fulbright Foundation, the Fundación Ramón Areces, the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science, and the Spanish Dirección General de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. He has taught Microeconomics, Game Theory, bargaining and auction theory, economics of uncertainty and information, industrial organization, the theory of contracts and Mathematical Economics at both graduate and undergraduate levels at Brown University, Universidad Carlos III, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Harvard University and Universidad Complutense. He has also supervised a dozen doctoral dissertations in these fields. Prof. Serrano received the William McLaughlin Award for Teaching Excellence in the Social Sciences at Brown University in 1999, and the Omicron-Delta-Epsilon Economics Professor of the Year Award in 2006. He lives in Barrington, Rhode Island, USA, with his wife Amy and their daughters Sofia and Elena.