Department of Economics

Dr. Emerson Melo is joining the department as an Assistant Professor as of the fall 2015. He is currently a Postdoc Associate at the Cornell Theory of Computation Group and the Center for the Interface of Networks, Computing, and Economics (CINCE). In 2013 he received a PhD in Social Sciences from the California Institute of Technology and holds a Bachelor and a Master degree from the University of Chile. His research interests include Microeconomic Theory, Game Theory and Applied Microeconometric Methods. Prior to joining the Caltech graduate program, Emerson spent three years at the Central Bank of Chile working as a junior researcher.