The Microeconomic Theory group publishes in internationally leading journals and has expertise in a wide array of areas including game theory, mechanism design, decision theory and political economy. We regularly organise workshops and conferences including a recent Contract Theory Workshop with Nobel Prize winner Oliver Hart, the Bristol Junior Economic Theory Workshop, and we co-organize the Virtual Seminars in Economic Theory.

Our research covers the following areas:

• Auction design
• Contract theory
• Decision Theory
• Experimental Economics
• Game theory
• Information economics
• Market design
• Mechanism design
• Political economy
• Organisational economics