Rodolphe Dos Santos Ferreira is professor emeritus at the University of
Strasbourg (Faculty of Economics and Management) and senior member of the
Bureau d’Economie Théorique et Appliquée (BETA, UMR 7522 of CNRS). After
studying law in the Classical University of Lisbon and economics in the University
of Strasbourg, he obtained a PhD degree at the University Louis Pasteur in 1974
and, through the national recruitment contest (Agrégation), he became in the
next year professor at the same University, until retirement in 2006. He was
active senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France in the period 19962006, president of the French Economic Association in 2001-2002, and received
the silver medal of the CNRS for his scientific contributions. He has published 40
papers in refereed journals, 15 chapters in books and conference proceedings,
and has edited or co-edited 3 special issues of refereed journals. He has mainly
worked on oligopolistic competition, contributing in the 80’s to the early literature
involving static macroeconomic models with imperfectly competitive markets
(OEP 1989, QJE 1990), and later to the macrodynamic theory of endogenous
business cycles ascribable to oligopolistic features, a topic on which he continues
to work (JEDC 2005 and 2008, JME 2006). However, his work on oligopolistic
competition also concerned industrial organization (AER 1991, IJIO 1996, IJET
2007) and general equilibrium theory (AER 1996, JET 1997). His recent
microeconomic work has addressed the integration of the main static oligopoly
models into a single theory involving firms with varying degrees of competitive
toughness (IER 2007, GEB 2009 and 2010). This work purports to supply better
and more general game theoretical foundations to the so-called conduct
parameters used in the empirical industrial organization literature. He has also
recently applied a similar approach to the analysis of household behavior, adding
semi-cooperative decisions to a literature heretofore confined to either a fully
cooperative or a fully non-cooperative decision process. Finally, a significant part
of his research has been and is still devoted to different topics in the history of
economic analysis (EJHET 2002, 2012 and 2013, HOPE 2011), not all directly
linked to his main theoretical research.
March 2013