Professor Alex Dickson
Economics
Personal statement
Alex Dickson is a Professor in the Department of Economics at the 糖心视频, where he has been a member of the faculty since 2008. He is also currently the Academic Director of the Strathclyde MBA, a post he took up in September 2025. Between 2022 and 2024 he served as Associate Dean (PGR) in Strathclyde Business School. He received his PhD in Economics from the University of Keele in 2005 and held a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Manchester from 2005-2007.
Alex is a microeconomist, and has research interests in the fields of bilateral oligopoly and contests, where he exploits his understanding of aggregative games; in industrial organisation; and in behavioural economics.
He is very willing to supervise suitably qualified PhD students in his fields of interest.
Alex will also provide thoughtful and clear economic advice on a consultancy basis, particularly in the areas of Industrial Economics and Behavioural Economics.
Alex currently teaches classes on Behavioural Economics (hons); Industrial Organisation (SGPE MSc); and Economic Analysis for Strategists which is a Microeconomics module on the Strathclyde MBA.
Qualifications
2002-2005: Ph.D. Economics, Keele University, UK.Thesis title: On strategic Marshallian analysis: Shapley and Shubik meet Mar-shall and Cournot. Funded by ESRC Ph.D. studentship award number PTA-030-2003-00278. Awarded with a commendation by the examiners. Supervisors:Prof. R. Hartley (Manchester) and Prof. T. Worrall (Keele). Examiners: Prof.S. Ghosal (Warwick) and Prof. R. Cornes (Nottingham).
2001-2002: MSc. Economics, University of Manchester, UK.Awarded with Distinction. Dissertation title: A study of alternative strategicmarket game mechanisms. Funded by University of Manchester scholarship.
1998-2001: BA Economics and Finance, Keele University, UK.Awarded with 1st class honours.
Publications
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- Review of Economics and Statistics Vol 107, pp. 1754-1763 (2025)
- Debowicz Dario, , MacKenzie Ian, Sekeris Petros
- Public Choice Vol 204, pp. 381-424 (2025)
- Debowicz Dario, , MacKenzie Ian A, Sekeris Petros G
- (2023)
- , MacKenzie Ian A, Sekeris Petros G
- Games Vol 13 (2022)
- , Tonin Simone
- Journal of Economics/ Zeitschrift fur Nationalokonomie Vol 137, pp. 279鈥�280 (2022)
- , MacKenzie Ian A, Sekeris Petros G
- Scottish Journal of Political Economy Vol 69, pp. 487-505 (2022)
Teaching
I believe in teaching Economics in a rigorous yet accessible way. I have teaching interests in Microeconomics; Game Theory; Behavioural Economics and Industrial Economics.
I currently teach Behavioural Economics (hons); Industrial Organisation (SGPE MSc); and Microeconomics (MBA).
Research Interests
My primary research interests are in Microeconomics, in particular in: game theoretic approaches to general and partial models of competitive behavior; aggregative games with applications to contests and strategic market games; endogenous timing in games and commitment; and behavioral economics and game theory. I have further broad interests in industrial organisation, the interaction of behaviour and policy, and applied game theory in general.
Professional Activities
- Participant
- 12/10/2023
- Participant
- 24/5/2023
- Visiting researcher
- 23/5/2023
- Visiting researcher
- 15/5/2023
- Participant
- 20/10/2022
- Peer reviewer
- 2021
Projects
- Dickson, Alexander (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2024 - 18-Jan-2024
- Harrington, Deirdre (Principal Investigator) Ferguson, Neil (Principal Investigator) Bonner, James (Principal Investigator) Bardid, Farid (Co-investigator) Drakopoulou Dodd, Sarah (Co-investigator) Dixon, James (Co-investigator) Roberts, Jen (Co-investigator) Dunlop, Mark (Co-investigator) Dickson, Alexander (Co-investigator) Shepherd, Mia (Post Grad Student) Carballo, Mia (Researcher) Michnowicz, Alexandra (Post Grad Student) Cory, Katherine (Co-investigator) Bachtler, John (Co-investigator) Hickin, Alice (Post Grad Student) MacKinnon, Calum (Co-investigator) O'Hare, Karen (Post Grad Student)
- An inter-disciplinary research and practice group at the 糖心视频. Co-researching the movement of people around places with our community.
- 14-Jan-2022
- Roper, Marc (Principal Investigator) Dickson, Alexander (Co-investigator) Wallace, William (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2022 - 28-Jan-2025
- Alfano, Marco (Principal Investigator) Dickson, Alexander (Co-investigator)
- Research Excellence Award
- 01-Jan-2017 - 31-Jan-2021
- Cook, Robin (Principal Investigator) Dickson, Alexander (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2012 - 31-Jan-2015