Ramon Caminal

Ramon Caminal is an Emeritus Affiliated Professor of the Barcelona School of Economics (BSE). He was a member of the Institute for Economics Analysis (IAE-CSIC), one of BSE’s academic units.

Most of Caminal’s research is in the field of Industrial Economics, with a particular focus on dynamic oligopolistic competition, loyalty programs, and dynamic product diversity.

He has also made contributions to the theory of coalitional bargaining, banking taxation and competition, regional transfers, and labor contracts.

More recently, Professor Caminal’s work has expanded to the Economics of Languages, where he has studied the impact of language skills and policies on market performance in cultural and media products, patterns of social interaction, identity, and political preferences.

He has taught at BSE as well as Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Universidad de Oviedo, and the University of Toulouse.

Caminal served as Associate Editor of the Journal of Industrial Economics, Journal of the European Economic Association, European Economic Review, Spanish Economics Review, and Moneda y Crédito.