Dr Inés Moreno de Barreda

I am an Official Fellow and Tutor in Economics at St Peter’s College and an Associate Professor at the Department of Economics. I joined St Peter’s in September 2014 after being a postdoctoral research fellow at Nuffield College for three years. Before coming to Oxford, I completed my PhD In Economics at the London School of Economics.

Teaching

At St Peter’s, I tutor second-year Microeconomics to students in: Economics and Management; PPE; and History and Economics. Microeconomics is one of the core subjects in Economics and it is required to undertake many of the third-year options. I also give tutorials in some third-year optional courses such as Microeconomic Analysis and Game Theory.

At the Department of Economics, I give undergraduate lectures to second and third-year students, as well as to graduate students in the MPhil programme.

Research

My research focuses on problems related with asymmetric information in economic interactions. Asymmetric information -the fact that different agents hold different pieces of relevant information- usually creates distortions and inefficiencies in interactions. I study the consequences of such asymmetry of information, together with agents’ incentives to reveal information; I also look into the design of institutions and interactions such that full revelation of information is achieved. This work can be applied to study interactions in Political Economy, Management and Competition policies among others.

Selected recent publications

Cheap Talk with Two-Sided Private Information, Games and Economic Behaviour 148, 97-118. (2024)

Persuasion with Correlation Neglect: A Full Manipulation Result (with Gilat Levy and Ronny Razin), American Economic Review: Insights 4 (1), 123-138. (2022)

Polarized extremes and the confused centre: Campaign targeting of voters with correlation neglect (with Gilat Levy and Ronny Razin),  Quarterly Journal of Political Science 16 (2), 139-155. (2021)