David Pérez-Castrillo is an Emeritus Research Professor of the Barcelona School of Economics (BSE) and a retired professor from Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), where he was a member of the UAB Economics and Economic History Department’s Unit for Economics Analysis, one of BSE’s academic units. He is also Research Fellow of CESifo in Germany.

He is a member of the BSE Academic Council and was the Director of the BSE Master’s Program in the Economics of Science and Innovation MESI from 2007-2012.

His research interests are in Economics of Science and Innovation, Economics of Information, and Game Theory. He is currently involved in research related with the analysis of public programs to support academic research, the financing of startups, and mechanism design.

Professor Pérez-Castrillo has published in leading journals such as American Economic Review, Journal of Economic Theory, Management Science, and Games and Economic Behavior. He is the author of the textbook An Introduction to the Economics of Information: Incentives and Contracts (joint with Inés Macho-Stadler), published by Oxford University Press. He is an associate editor of the Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, Economics Letters and Journal of Public Economic Theory.

Among other duties, he has been President of the Spanish Economic Association, President of the Social Science Commission for Research Evaluation for the Catalan Government, President and General Secretary of the South-European Association of Economic Theory, and Officer of the Executive Committee of the European Association of Research in Industrial Economics.

He has been a visiting professor at many universities, such as the University of California-San Diego, the University of Copenhagen, and the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.

David Pérez-Castrillo holds a PhD in Economics from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in France.