Eduard
Talamàs

Assistant Professor of Economics

• Ph.D. in Economics, Harvard University
• MSc. in Economics, Barcelona Graduate School of Economics
• B.A. in Economics, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Eduard Talamàs joined IESE Business School as an Assistant Professor of Economics in 2019. He obtained his Ph.D. in economics at Harvard University under the supervision of Benjamin Golub. Before joining IESE, he was a Warren Center postdoctoral fellow at the University of Pennsylvania, hosted by Rakesh Vohra. In the Autumn of 2020, Eduard was a Research Associate in The Cambridge Institute of New Economic Thinking, hosted by Matthew Elliott.

Eduard studies strategic interactions in matching markets and economic networks, with a focus on investment, bargaining and organizational structure. His research has been published in Games and Economic Behavior and Cambridge University Press, and it has been funded by Fundación Ramón Areces, “La Caixa” Foundation, The Foundations of Human Behavior Initiative and The Rockefeller Foundation.

Eduard teaches economics in IESE’s doctoral, MBA and Executive MBA programs. Eduard is a Research Affiliate at the Centre for Economic Policy Research, and Chief Strategy Officer at PLAY Activewear.

Areas of interest

* Economics
* Social and economic networks
* Investment and bargaining in markets

Publications

Journal Articles (refereed)

TALAMÀS VILARDAGA, E., VOHRA, R. (2020). Free and perfectly safe but only partially effective vaccines can harm everyone. Games and Economic Behavior, 122, 277 - 289. doi:10.1016/j.geb.2020.05.001.
TALAMÀS VILARDAGA, E. (2019). Price Dispersion In Stationary Networked Markets. Games and Economic Behavior, 115 (1), 247 - 264. doi:10.1016/j.geb.2019.03.005.
TALAMÀS VILARDAGA, E. (2018). Fair Stable Sets of Simple Games. Games and Economic Behavior, 108 (1), 574 - 584. doi:10.1016/j.geb.2017.08.004.

Articles in other publications

TALAMAS, E. (2020). ¿Qué podemos perder? Compensación de riesgos en una pandemia. IESEconomics.
TALAMAS, E. (2020). What do we have to lose? Risk compensation during a pandemic. IESEconomics.

Cases

IDE, E., TALAMÀS, E. (2022). The Chilean Fiscal Rule. IESE, ECON-430-E.
TALAMÀS, E., DREBES SANTOS, H., FRALETTI, A. (2022). La montaña rusa macroeconómica de Brasil. Del boom de Lula al fiasco de Rousseff. IESE, ECON-429.
TALAMÀS, E., DREBES SANTOS, H., FRALETTI, A. (2022). Brazil's Macroeconomic Rollercoaster. From Lula's Boom to Rousseff's Bust. IESE, ECON-429-E.
TALAMÀS VILARDAGA, E., RIFAI, J., SAADE, J. (2021). Líbano: la reconstrucción económica de la posguerra. IESE, ECON-427.
TALAMÀS VILARDAGA, E., RIFAI, J., SAADE, J. (2021). Lebanon's Post-War Economic Reconstruction. IESE, ECON-427-E.