I am a Professor of Economics at the University of Oxford. In the main part of my research, I study individual decision-making with a special interest on its psychological foundations. I aim to better understand the relevant behavioral traits affecting individual decisions and their welfare implications. I am also interested in collective decision-making procedures, with a special focus on collective welfare. I have lectured several Microeconomics subjects, both at the undergraduate and graduate level.

​As part of my Oxford professorial life, I am also the Lord Thomson of Fleet Fellow at Balliol College, where I am a Tutor in Economics. This post involves preparing Balliol students for the different microeconomic subjects they face in their undergraduate and graduate studies at the University of Oxford.
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​Miguel Ballester
Department of Economics, University of Oxford
Manor Road Building, Oxford OX1 3UQ
E-Mail: miguel.ballester@economics.ox.ac.uk
               miguel.ballester@balliol.ox.ac.uk 
Tel: 01865 281288
As a rule, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be (Arthur Conan Doyle)
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That's the reason they're called lessons, because they lesson from day to day (Lewis Carroll)
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues (Bertrand Russell)
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