Ph.D. in
Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences.
Kellogg Graduate
School of Management, Northwestern
University. June
1995.
Thesis Title:
"Information Processing in Electoral
Competition."
Thesis Director: Itzhak Gilboa.
Thesis Committee: Timothy Feddersen, Morton Kamien, Roger Myerson,
Donald Saari.
M.A. in Economics.
Universitat
Autònoma de
Barcelona. June
1990.
Thesis Title:
"Envy-Free Allocations in Economies with Indivisible
Goods."
Thesis Director: Salvador Barberà.
B.A. in Economics.
Universitat
Autònoma de
Barcelona. June 1988.
ACADEMIC
POSITIONS
Research
Professor,
Institut d'Anàlisi
Econòmica,
Consell
Superior d'Investigacions Científiques.
Since 2009.
Visiting Professor, Departament d'Economia i
d'Història Econòmica,
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.
Academic Years
2008-2009.
Research
Scientist, Institut
d'Anàlisi Econòmica,
Consell
Superior d'Investigacions Científiques.
Academic years 2005-2008.
Affiliated faculty of Barcelona
Graduate School of Economics
Since 2006.
Visiting Professor, IDEA,
Departament d'Economia i d'Història Econòmica,
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.
Academic Years
2004-2005, 2006-2007, 2009-2010.
Member of CREA-Barcelona Economics
Years 2003-2007.
Tenured
Scientist, Institut d'Anàlisi Econòmica,
Consell
Superior d'Investigacions Científiques.
Academic Years 2001-2005.
Visiting Professor, Departament d’Economia i Empresa,
Universitat Pompeu
Fabra.
Academic Years
2001-2005.
Assistant
Professor, Departament d’Economia i Empresa,
Universitat Pompeu
Fabra.
Academic years
1995-2001.
Research Fellow,
Center for Basic Research in the
Social
Sciences,
Harvard University,
predecessor of the Institute for
Quantitative Social Science.
Academic year
1999-2000.
Lecturer
Kellogg Graduate School of
Management,
Northwestern University.
Academic
years
1993-95.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Graduate
Courses
"Political Economy"
Ph.D. Program
IDEA, Universitat
Autònoma de
Barcelona.
Academic years 2004-2005;
2006-2007 and 2009-2010.
"Statistical
Methods for Management Decisions"
Master in Management
KGSM,
Northwestern
University.
Academic
years
1993-95.
Undergraduate Courses
Additional
Teaching Experience
Special lectures on "Modelos de competición
electoral"
Departamento de Teoría e Historia Económica,
Universidad de Granada.
March 2010
Teaching
Assistant. Kellogg Graduate School of Management,
Northwestern University.
Academic years
1991-95.
Linear Programming
and Probability (Master in Management)
Decision Theory
(Ph. D. Program)
Teaching
Assistant.
Departament d’Economia i d’Història Econòmica,
Universitat Autònoma de
Barcelona.
Academic years 1988-90.
Macroeconomics
(fifth year undergraduate)
Microeconomics
(fourth year undergraduate)
SCHOLARSHIPS
Post
Doctoral Fellow from the Center for Basic Research in the Social
Sciences at Harvard University, academic year 1999-2000.
Post
Doctoral Scholarship from the Center in Political Economy at
Washington University in St. Louis. February 1997.
Scholarship
for doctoral students sponsored by the Spanish Ministry of
Education. Academic years 1991-95.
Fellowship
Program for graduates of the universities of Catalonia and
Balearic Islands (Spain) sponsored by Fundació Caixa de
Pensions.
Academic year 1990-91.
RESEARCH GRANTS
Research
Grant from the Catalan Government, Grup
de Recerca Consolidat 2009 SGR 1126 "Economia Política"
(Political Economy).
Director: Josep Maria Colomer
Academic years 2010-2014.
Research
Grant from the Catalan Government 2005
SGR 00626, Grup
de Recerca Consolidat "Conflicte, Cohesió Social i
Polítiques Públiques" (Conflict, Social Cohesion and
Public Policies).
Director: Joan Maria Esteban
Academic years 2005-2009.
Research
grant from European Union FP6-2002 CITIZENS-2. "Polarization and
Conflict" (506084). Director: Joan Maria Esteban.
Academic years 2004-2008.
Research
grant from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology
SEC2003-01961. "Decisiones
Públicas y Cohesión Social" (Public Decisions and Social
Cohesion).
Director: Joan Maria Esteban.
Academic
years 2004-2006.
Research
grant from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology SEC2000-1186.
"Economía
Política de
las elecciones y la agenda gubernamental: Un nuevo modelo de
análisis de la
selección de temas de políticas públicas y
política económica, con aplicación a
España." (Political
Economy
of elections and government's
agenda: a new model to analyze the selection of public and economic
policy,
applied to Spain).
Director: Josep Maria Colomer.
Academic years 2001-03.
Research
grant from the Catalan Government "Xarxa temàtica:
Eleccions, comunicació política i opinió
pública." (Elections, political
communication, and public opinion). Academic year 1996.
Research
grant from the Spanish Ministry of Education DGICYT-PB95-0983. "Mercados, Juegos y
Decisiones" (Markets,
Games, and Decisions). Director:
Andreu
Mas-Colell.
Academic years
1996-99.
Research
grant from Universitat Pompeu Fabra P595.004. Academic
year 1995-96.
REFEREE
SERVICE FOR
EXPERT
EVALUATION SERVICE FOR
Agence Nationale de la Recherche (France)
National Science Foundation (USA)
European Science Foundation
Consell Superior d'Investigacions Científiques
ANEP, Spanish Ministry of Education and
Science.
Universidad Carlos III, Madrid
Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona
Princeton University
PUBLICATIONS
"A Derivation of
the Money Rawlsian Solution"
in Social
Choice and Welfare (1995) 12: 267-276. SSCI: 13
"Negativity
Effect and the Emergence of Ideologies"
in Journal
of Theoretical Politics (1997) 9(2):198-210. SSCI: 4
"Strategic
Ambiguity in Electoral Competition"
joint with Zvika
Neeman.
in Journal
of Theoretical Politics (2000) 12(2):183-204. SSCI: 9
"Mixed
Equilibrium in a Downsian Model with a Favored
Candidate"
joint with
Thomas Palfrey.
in Journal
of Economic Theory (2002) 103 (1): 131-161. SSCI: 28
"Ambiguity in
Election Games"
joint with
Andrew Postlewaite.
in Review of
Economic Design (2002) 7 (3): 233-255.
"The Effect of
Candidate Quality on Electoral Equilibrium: An
Experimental Study"
joint with
Thomas Palfrey.
in
American Political
Science Review (2004) 98 (1): 77-90. SSCI: 4
"Electoral
Competition Between Two Candidates of Different Quality:
The Effects of Candidate Ideology and Private Information"
joint with
Thomas Palfrey.
in Social
Choice and Strategic Decisions: Essays in Honor
of Jeffrey S. Banks, Ed. David Austen-Smith and John
Duggan,
(2005) Berlin:
Springer.
"Fact-Free
Learning"
joint with Itzhak Gilboa, Andrew Postlewaite and David Schmeidler.
in American Economic
Review (2005) 95 (5): 1355-1368. SSCI: 4
"Government
Formation in a Two
Dimensional
Policy Space"
in the International
Journal of Game Theory, (2007) 35 (2): 151-184.
SSCI: 1
"Political
Reputations and Campaign Promises"
joint with Thomas Palfrey and Andrew Postlewaite.
in the Journal of the
European Economic Association, (2007) 5 (4): 846-884.
"The Key Party in the Catalan Government"
in
the Spanish Economic Review,
(2007) 9 (4): 249-271.
"An Automated Model of
Government Formation"
joint with Pilar Dellunde
in The Political Economy
of Democracy
edited by E. Aragones, C. Bevia, H. Llavador, N. Schofield, (2009)
published
by
Fundación BBVA.
"A
Theory
of Participatory Democracy based on the Real Case of Porto Alegre"
joint with Santiago Sánchez-Pagés,
in the European Economic Review (2009)
53: 56-72.
WORKING PAPERS
"Information Transimission and Reputational
Dynamics in Repeated Elections"
joint with Thomas Palfrey and Andrew Postlewaite.
"Rhetoric and
Analogies"
joint with Itzhak
Gilboa, Andrew Postlewaite, and David Schmeidler. 2001
"A Dynamic Model
of Multiparty Competition"
Northwestern
University, WP# 1044, April 1993. Revised August
1994.
Last revision:
September 1997 as "Negativity Effect in Multiparty
Electoral Competition," Universitat Pompeu Fabra, WP# 273, March 1998.
WORK IN PROGRESS
"Wag the Dog"
joint with Micael Castanheira.
"Campaign
Rhetoric: a learning model"
joint with Thomas
Palfrey and Andrew
Postlewaite.
"Campaign
Rhetoric and Endorsements in Electoral Competition "
joint with Andrew
Postlewaite.
"Mixed
Equilibrium in a Downsian Model with a Favored Candidate
with a Continuous Policy Space"
joint with Thomas
Palfrey.
"The market for
MBA's"
joint with
Eugenio Miravete.
"Consistency,
Resource-Monotonicy, and Fairness for Exchange
Economies"
joint with Andrew
Postlewaite and William Thomson.
"Policy
divergence and the median voter"
"Economic
consequences of imitation"
SERVICE
at I.A.E. and U.A.B.
Organizer
(with
Ada Ferrer, Clara POnsati and Debraj Ray) of "Polarization and
Conflict: Conference in honor of Joan M. Esteban 65th birthday,"
sponsored by Fundacion BBVA, May 2010.
Organizer (with
Carmen Bevia, Humberto Llavador and Norman Schofield) of the Workshop
on the Political Economy of Democracy, sponsored by Fundacion BBVA,
June 2008.
IAE's
Department chair, academic years 2007-2009.
IAE's Recruiting
Officer, academic
years
2006-2008.
Coordinator
of the Ph.D. program I.D.E.A.,
academic years
2004-2006.
Organizer
of the Bellaterra Seminar series, academic years 2001-2004.
Member of the
Master Thesis Committee for I.D.E.A. September 2002.
Coordinator of
the
GREC group of Political Economy for L.E.A.
Organizer (with
Antonio Cabrales and Inés Macho-Stadler) of the I
Barcelona Workshop on Economic Design within L.E.A. November
2001.
DEPARTMENT
AND UNIVERSITY SERVICE at U.P.F.
Organizer
of the Review of Economic Studies Tour, May 1999.
Officer of the
Recruiting Committee, academic years 1997-99.
Organizer of the
Micro-Finance-Game Theory Workshop, academic year 1997-98.
Assistant
Professors' Counseling, academic year 1997-98.
Member of the
'Junta de la Facultat d'Econòmiques', 1997-99.
Member of the
'Claustre de la Universitat', 1996-99.
Assistant for the
production of the brochure for the GPEB, 1995-98.
EDITORIAL
SERVICES
Associate Editor of the SERIEs,
Journal of the Spanish Economic Association, since 2010.
Co-Editor of the
Spanish Economic
Review, 2009.
Associate
Editor of Revista Española de Investigaciones
Sociológicas, from academic year 2008-2009.
Editor, with
Carmen Bevia,
Humberto Llavador and Norman Schofield, of The Political Economy of
Democracy, forthcoming as a volume of Fundación
BBVA.
Associate
Editor of the Spanish Economic Review, 2008.
OTHER
SERVICES
Member of the Programme Committee for the 25th European Economic
Association Annual Congress, Glasgow, August 2010.
Organizer
(with Josep Colomer and Clara Ponsati) of the
Second Workshop on The Political Economy of Democracy, June 2009.
Director
of the Barcelona GSE Research Network, 2009.
Member of the Programme Committee for the 24th European Economic
Association Annual Congress, Barcelona, August 2009.
Member
of the Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas' Advisory Council,
since September 2008.
Member
of the
Scientific Committee of the XXXIII Simposio de Análisis
Económico. Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza (Spain), December
2008.
Organizer
(with Carmen Bevia, Humberto Llavador and Norman Schofield) of the
Workshop on The Political Economy of Democracy, June 2008, sponsored by
Fundación BBVA.
Member
of the Spanish Economic Association's Council,
since
January 2008.
Member
of the
Scientific Committee of the XXXII Simposio de Análisis
Económico. Universidad de Granada, Granada (Spain), December
2007.
Member of the
Theoretical and Applied Economics Programme Committee for
the European Meeting of the Econometric Society,
Budapest (Hungary), August 2007.
Member
of the
Scientific Committee of the XXXI Simposio de Análisis
Económico. Universidad de Oviedo, Oviedo (Spain), December 2006.
Member
of the
Scientific Committee of the XXX Simposio de Análisis
Económico. Universidad de
Murcia, Murcia (Spain), December 2005.
Member
of the
Scientific Committee of the ASSET Annual Conference 2004. Universitat
Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona
(Spain), November 2004.
Member of the
Program Committee of the Fifth International Meeting of
the Society for Social Choice and Welfare. Alicante (Spain), June 2000.
"Rawls' justice
criterion" in An Eponymous
Dictionary
of Economics (A Guide to Laws and Theorems Named after
Economists),
C. Rodriguez Braun and J. Segura editors. Edward Elgar
publishers, 2005.
"Approval
voting" joint with Micael Castanheira in the New palgrave Dictionary of
Economics Online.
Larry Blume and Steven Durlauf editors,
Palgrave Macmillan publishers, 2009.
DOCTORAL THESIS ADVISOR FOR
MASTER THESIS ADVISOR FOR
Rajesh Ramachandran: "The mechanics of self-targeting and
its role in poverty alleviation programs"
I.D.E.A.;
Universitat Autònoma
de Barcelona.
Academic year 2008-09.
Orestis Troumpounis: "Is a Proportional
Representation System Full or Fool?"
I.D.E.A.;
Universitat Autònoma
de Barcelona.
Academic year 2007-08.
Julen
Berasaluce: "Primaries and Campaign Financing"
I.D.E.A.;
Universitat Autònoma
de Barcelona.
Academic year 2006-07.
Jianhui Wang:
"Campaign Promise over Long-term Policies"
I.D.E.A.;
Universitat Autònoma
de Barcelona.
Academic year 2005-06.
Dimitrios
Xefteris: "Institutions of Direct Democracy and Happiness"
I.D.E.A.;
Universitat Autònoma
de Barcelona.
Academic year 2005-06.
Selim
Jurgen
Ergun: "Centrist's Curse? An Electoral Competition Model with
Credibility Constraints"
I.D.E.A.;
Universitat Autònoma
de Barcelona.
Academic year 2004-05.
MEMBER OF THE THESIS COMMITTEE FOR:
Andrzej
Kwiatkowski:
"Essays on Education Economics and Contest Game Theory"
IDEA;
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. April 2010.
Morgane Tanve: "Argumentation & Vote: Essais en
Economie Politique"
Paris School of Economics; Universite Paris I, Pantheon-Sorbonne.
December 2009.
Aniol Llorente: "Voting Mechanisms and
Negotiation in Multiple-Issue Bargaining Situations"
Departament d'Economia, Universitat Pompeu Fabra. September 2008.
Jose Gabriel Romero: "Essays on Economics
of Education"
Departament
de
Fonaments d'Anàlisi Econòmica, Universitat
d'Alacant. July 2008.
Thomas Jensen: "Topics in Political
Economy: Voting, Elections, and Terrorism"
University of Copenhagen, Denmark. November 2007.
Jenny de Freitas: "Essays on Political
Economy and Public Economics"
Universite des Sciences Sociales Toulouse I, France. March 2007.
Jorge Alcalde-Unzu: "Four Essays on
Distribution of Opportunities"
Universidad Pública de Navarra. September 2006.
Raphael Soubeyran: "Political Competition:
Heterogeneity and Dynamic"
GREQAM, Universite de la Mediterranee-Aix-Marseille II, France.
December 2005.
Veneta Andonova: "Communication
Technologies: Commercial Adoption and Institutional Environment"
Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra. December
2004.
Ascension Andina: "Mass Media and the
Political Game"
Departament de
Fonaments d'Anàlisi Econòmica, Universitat
d'Alacant. October 2004.
Ivanna
Ferdinandova: "Models of Reasoning"
IDEA;
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. December 2003.
Santiago
Sanchez-Pages: "On Conflict and Power"
IDEA;
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. July 2003.
Cristina Rata:
"Voting and Information Aggregation: Theories and
Experiments in the Tradition of Condorcet"
IDEA;
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. July 2002.
Matthias
Messner: "Essays in Game Theory"
GPEM,
Universitat Pompeu Fabra. March 2002.
Juan Perote:
"Compensation Schemes in Collective Decision
Making"
IDEA,
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. March 2001.
Francisco
Candel: "Essays on Public Decision Making"
IDEA,
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. June 1999.
M. Socorro
Puy: "A study on institutional features".
Departament de
Fonaments d'Anàlisi Econòmica, Universitat
d'Alacant. September
1998.
CONFERENCES
* PET-10, Annual conference of association for public economic theory, Istanbul (Turkey), June 2010, presenting "The disadvantage of winning an election"
SEMINARS
*
Department of Political Science, University of Colorado at Boulder,
January
1998, presenting "Ambiguity in equilibrium for two party
electoral competition."
*
Departament d'Economia, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, October 1997,
presenting "Ambiguity in equilibrium for two party electoral
competition."
* Departamento de
Fundamentos de Análisis
Económico, Universidad de Alicante, October 1997,
presenting
"Ambiguity in equilibrium for two party electoral competition."
* Department of
Economics and Political Science, INSEAD, October 1997, presenting
"Ambiguity in equilibrium for two party electoral competition."
* Center
in Political Economy, Washington University, February 1997, presenting
"Negativity Effect and the Emergence of Ideologies."
*
Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania, February 1997,
presenting
"Negativity Effect and the Emergence of Ideologies."
* Departamento de
Economía, Universidad
Carlos III de Madrid, May 1996, presenting "Strategic Ambiguity in
Electoral Competition."
* Departament d'Economia,
Universitat de Girona,
April 1996, presenting "Strategic Ambiguity in Electoral
Competition."
* Departament d'Economia,
Universitat Pompeu Fabra,
October 1995, presenting "Strategic Ambiguity in Electoral
Competition."
* Departament
d'Economia, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, February 1995, presenting
"Negativity Effect and the Emergence of Ideologies."
*
Departament d'Economia, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona,
February 1995,
presenting "Negativity Effect and the Emergence of Ideologies."
*
Department of Economics, University of Southern California, February
1995,
presenting "Negativity Effect and the Emergence of Ideologies."
*
Department of Economics, Emory College, February 1995, presenting
"Negativity Effect and the Emergence of Ideologies."
*
Department of Political Science, Princeton University, November 1994,
presenting "Negativity Effect and the Emergence of Ideologies."
*
Department of Political Science, Northwestern University, November
1994,
presenting "Negativity Effect and the Emergence of Ideologies."
*
Workshop on Formal Political Theory, Northwestern University, December
1993,
presenting "Strategic Ambiguity in Electoral Competition."
* Math
Center, Northwestern University, April 1993, presenting "A Dynamic
Model
of Multiparty Competition."
* Math
Center, Northwestern University, April 1992, presenting "A
Solution
to the Envy-free Selection Problem in Economies with Indivisible Goods."