Alonso, Ricardo

Dr Ricardo Alonso  

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Dr Ricardo Alonso joined the LSE in 2014 as an Associate Professor of Management at the Managerial Economics and Strategy Group. He earned a PhD in Managerial Economics and Strategy from the Kellogg School of Management in 2007, and prior to joining LSE was an Assistant Professor of Finance and Business Economics at the University of Southern California.

Before earning his PhD, Ricardo worked in the Telecommunications industry, serving in management positions at Telefonica in Europe and the United States. After receiving his MS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Universidad Politecnica Madrid, he was initially engaged in the design and planning of telecommunication networks in Spain and Europe for Telefonica. He later transitioned into management positions were he took part in the launch of “greenfield" operators in Central America and e-commerce platforms in the US.

Ricardo studies the economics of organizations, with an emphasis on information and incentives. His research has been published in the American Economic Review, the Review of Economic Studies, AEJ- Microeconomics, Journal of European Economic Association and the RAND Journal of Economics.

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LSE email:

r.alonso@lse.ac.uk

Publications

2016

Alonso, Ricardo and Câmara, Odilon (2016) Persuading voters American Economic Review, 106 (11). 3590-3605. ISSN 0002-8282

Alonso, Ricardo and Câmara, Odilon (2016) Bayesian persuasion with heterogeneous priors Journal of Economic Theory, 165. 672-706. ISSN 1095-7235

2015

Alonso, Ricardo and Dessein, Wouter and Matouschek, Niko (2015) Organizing to adapt and compete American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 7 (2). 158-187. ISSN 1945-7669

2014

Alonso, Ricardo and Brocas, Isabelle and Carrillo, Juan D. (2014) Resource allocation in the brain The Review of Economic Studies, 81 (2). 501-534. ISSN 0034-6527

2011

Alonso, Ricardo and Matouschek, Niko and Dessein, Wouter (2011) Strategic communication: prices versus quantities Journal of the European Economic Association, 8 (2-3). 365-376. ISSN 1542-4766

2008

Alonso, Ricardo and Dessein, Wouter and Matouschek, Niko (2008) When does coordination require centralization? American Economic Review, 98 (1). 145-179. ISSN 0002-8282

Alonso, Ricardo and Matouschek, Niko (2008) Optimal delegation Review of Economic Studies, 75 (1). 259-293. ISSN 0034-6527

Alonso, Ricardo and Dessein, Wouter and Matouschek, Niko (2008) Centralization versus decentralization: an application to price setting by a multi-market firm Journal of the European Economic Association, 6 (2-3). 457-467. ISSN 1542-4766

2007

Alonso, Ricardo and Matouschek, Niko (2007) Relational delegation The RAND Journal of Economics, 38 (4). 1070-1089. ISSN 0741-6261

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