Dr Maria Garcia-Alonso

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Senior Lecturer in Economics

Office: L1.7 Keynes
Telephone: +44 1227 827488
Email: Maria Garcia-Alonso

Maria Garcia-Alonso is Senior Lecturer in Economics. She was born in 1970 in Vigo (north west of Spain). After graduating in Economics at the University of Vigo, she moved to the University of Autonoma de Barcelona where she was awarded her Ph.D. in 1998. She joined the University of Kent as Lecturer in 1999. Prior to this, she had the opportunity to develop part of her research at the Universities of Surrey, Birmingham and York.

Maria’s interests are in Industrial Organisation, International Trade, Defence and Peace Economics and Health Economics. Recent publications include: “Strategic Procurement, Openness and Market Structure”, International Journal of Industrial Organisation, forthcoming (with Paul Levine). “The Strategic Interaction between Firms and Formulary Committees: Effects on the Prices of New Drugs”, Journal of Health Economics, forthcoming (with Begoña García-Mariñoso) and “Managing Asymmetric Conflict”, Oxford Economic Papers (2006) (joint with Paul Dunne, Paul Levine and Ron Smith).

Research

Research interests

Maria’s research in the past few years has been in the fields of Industrial Organization and International Trade. The objective has been to understand the strategic interactions between governments which are involved in arms production and arms control. More generally, Maria has also been interested in the impact of public procurement policies on market structure with an application to both defense and pharmaceutical industries.

At present, she is developing models that try to explain the characteristics of the national and international regulation in health markets.

Maria's RePEc page is http://econpapers.repec.org/RAS/pga119.htm

Current work

Working papers
  • Weak IPR and Imitation in the South and International Exhaustion of Patent Rights in the North for Innovated Drugs: A Policy Game", Rajat Acharyya and Maria D.C. García-Alonso, 09/19 (pdf)
  • Health Systems, Inequality and Incentives to Innovate, Rajat Archaryya and María del Carmen García-Alonso, UKC Studies in Economics No. 09/02 (pdf)
  • Income-Based Price Subsidies, Parallel Imports and Markets Access to New Drugs for the Poor, Rajat Acharyya and María del Carmen García-Alonso, UKC Studies in Economics No. 08/20 (pdf)
  • Taste for Variety and Optimum Product Diversity in an Open Economy, Javier Coto-Martínez, María del Carmen García-Alonso and Paul Levine, UKC Studies in Economics No. 05/08 (pdf)
  • The relationship of drug reimbursement with the price and the quality of pharmaceutical innovations, Maria del Carmen Garcia-Alonso and Begona Garcia Marinoso, UKC Studies in Economics No. 05/02 (pdf)

Publications

Articles
  • Taste for Variety and Optimum Product Diversity in an Open Economy, Bulletin of Economic Research, Bulletin of Economic Research, Vol. 61, Number 2, April 2009 , pp. 127-138(12), (with Javier Coto-Martínez and Paul Levine).
  • Strategic Procurement, Openness and Market Structure, International Journal of Industrial Organisation, Vol. 26, 5, September 2008, pp. 1180-1190 (with Paul Levine).
  • Parallel Imports, Innovations and National Welfare: Role of the Sizes of the Income Classes and National Markets for Health Care, Singapore Economic Review, Vol. 53, No. 1, April 2008, pp. 57-79 (with Rajat Acharyya).
  • The Strategic Interaction between Firms and Formulary Committees: Effects on the Prices of New Drugs, Journal of Health Economics, Vol. 27, Issue 2, March 2008, pp. 377-404 (with Begoña García-Mariñoso).
  • Determining the Defence Industrial Base, Defence and Peace Economics, June 2007, Vol. 18, Issue 3, pp. 199-221 (with Paul Dunne, Paul Levine and Ron Smith).
  • Managing Asymmetric Conflict, Oxford Economic Papers (2006), 58, 183-208 (joint with Paul Dunne, Paul Levine and Ron Smith).
  • Self-interested Motives for International Income Redistribution and Access to Health Care Innovation, European Journal of Political Economy (2006), 22, 2, 322-336 (with Rajat Acharyya).
  • Arms Export Controls, Subsidies and the WTO Exemption, Scottish Journal of Political Economy, (2005), 52, 2, 305-322 (with Paul Levine).
  • Procurement Contracts, Exports and Quality, Bulletin of Economic Research (2004), 56, 4, 311-327 (with Paul Levine and Antonia Morga).
  • National-Security Export Quality Restrictions in Segmented and Non-segmented Markets, European Journal of Political Economy (2003), 19, 377-390.
  • The Role of Technology Security in a Model of Horizontal Differentiation, International Journal of Industrial Organization (2000) 18, 5, 747-773
  • Export Controls, Market Structure and International Coordination, Defence and Peace Economics (2000), 11, 5 (with Keith Hartley)
  • Price Competition in a Model of Arms Trade, Defence and Peace Economics (1999), 10, 3, 273-303.
Contributions to books
  • Arms Trade and Arms Races: A Strategic Analysis (with Paul Levine) in Handbook of Defence Economics II, Keith Hartley and Todd Sandler eds., North Holland, Series in Economic Handbooks 2007.
  • The Evolution of the International Arms Industry (with Paul Dunne, Paul Levine, Ron P. Smith) in Arms, War, and Terrorism in the Global Economy Today, edited by Wolfram Elsner, LIT Verlag, 2007.
  • The Economics of Arms Export Controls (with Ron Smith) in Non-Proliferation Export Controls: Origins, Challenges, and Proposals for Strengthening, edited by Daniel H. Joyner, Ashgate, 2006.
  • Export Controls, Market Structure and International Coordination, in Arms Trade Security and Conflict, edited by Paul Levine and Ron Smith, 2003 (joint with Keith Hartley).
  • Domestic Procurement, Subsidies and the Arms Trade in Arming the South: The Economics of Military Expenditure, Arms Production and Arms Trade in Developing Countries, edited by Jurgen Brauer and Paul Dunne, Palgrave, 2002 (with Paul Levine).

Teaching

Administrative roles

  • School Senior Tutor