Dr Helmuts Azacis

Qualifications

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona: Ph.D. in Economics (2006)
Central European University: MA in Economics (2000)
University of Latvia: Bachelor in Business Administration (1998)

Teaching profile

Game Theory (Second Year PhD);
Microeconomics: Economics of Uncertainty (MSc);
Microeconomic Analysis (Third Year BSc)

Research interests

Auction Theory, Implementation Theory

Selected publications

Helmuts Azacis, Double Implementation in a Market for Indivisible Goods with a Price Constraint, Games and Economic Behavior, vol. 62(1), January 2008, pp. 140-154.
Also available as UFAE and IAE WP 623.04, and Cardiff Economics WP 2005/10

Helmuts Azacis and Roberto Burguet, Incumbency and Entry in License Auctions: The Anglo-Dutch Auction Meets Another Simple Alternative, International Journal of Industrial Organization,
vol. 26(3), May 2008, pp. 730-745. Also available as Cardiff Economics WP 2005/11

Helmuts Azacis and David R. Collie, The optimality of optimal punishments in Cournot supergame, Economics Letters, vol. 105(1), October 2009, pp. 56-57, doi:10.1016/j.econlet.2006.11.025.
WP version: Cardiff Economics WP 2007/27

Helmuts Azacis and Max Gillman, Flat Tax Reform: The Baltics 2000 - 2007, Journal of Macroeconomics, vol. 32(2), June 2010, pp. 692-708, doi:10.1016/j.jmacro.2009.05.001.
WP versions: Cardiff Economics WP 2008/6, and IEHAS DP 2008/25