Walter Beckert
PhD, University of California at Berkeley
Reader / Associate Professor of Economics
Department of Economics, Mathematics and Statistics
Birkbeck, University of London
Other affiliations:
Research Associate - Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS, London)
Member of the Academic Panel - Competition and Markets Authority (CMA, London)
Associate, Oxera Consulting LLP
Member - Oxera Economic Council
Research fields: Theoretical and Applied Econometrics, Empirical Industrial Organization, Health Economics
Demand analysis. Choice analysis with endogenous choice sets.
Models of industry behavior in oligopoly product markets, and their econometric estimation, with application to competition policy issues. Differentiated products, spatial competition, vertical relations.
Co-Investigator, ESRC grant ES/M007421/1: "Empirical Analysis of Vertical Contracting in Intermediate Goods Markets" (2015-2018), joint with Howard Smith, Oxford University.
Co-organizer (with Howard Smith) of the ESRC funded conference on the Empirical Analysis of Vertical Contracting and Bargaining (15 June 2018)
Principal Investigator, ESRC grant RES-000-22-1608: "Firms' Strategic Choices Under Demand Uncertainty" (2006-2007).
Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship (2002-2003).
Co-Editor of The Manchester School.
“One of the world’s leading competition economists”, Who is Who Legal: Consulting Experts (since 2016).
ORCID 0000-0001-8705-9547