Dr. Miguel Fonseca has recently completed his PhD in Economics from the University of London, Royal Holloway College. He is currently a Post-Doctoral researcher at the Center for Research in Environmental Decisions (CRED) at Columbia University. He specialises in the empirical research applied to microeconomics using experimental methods. His work is divided into two main areas of research. Industrial Economics, where he studies the conditions for the emergence of market leadership and the impact of mergers on market performance; and Public Economics where he researches the impact of asymmetries in contests. Recently, his interests in contest theory have extended to dynamic contests and applications to conflict theory.