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Annual Report 2011

Memòria d’Activitats 2011

Memoria de Actividades 2011


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Publications

Articles Ballester, Miguel Ángel Apesteguia, José and Miguel Ángel Ballester, “Welfare of Naive and Sophisticated Players in School Choice”, Economics Letters, forthcoming. Alcalde-Unzu, Jorge and Miguel Ángel Ballester, “Ranking opportunity profiles through dependent evaluation of policies”, Journal of Economic Inequality, forthcoming. Alcalde-Unzu, Jorge, Miguel Ángel Ballester and Jorge Nieto, “Freedom of choice: John Stuart Mill and the tree of life”, SERIES special issue in honour of Salvador Barberà, forthcoming. Apesteguia, José, Miguel Ángel Ballester and Rosa Ferrer, “On the Justice of Decision Rules”, Review of Economic Studies 78 (2011), 1-16. Ballester, Miguel Ángel and Guillaume Haeringer, “A Characterization of the Single-Peaked Domain”, Social Choice and Welfare 36 (2011), 305-322. Barberà, Salvador Barberà, Salvador, Dolors Berga and Bernado Moreno, “Two Necessary Conditions for Strategy-Proofness: on What Domains are they also Sufficient?”, Games and Economic

Behavior, forthcoming. Barberà, Salvador, Dolors Berga and Bernado Moreno,”Group Strategy-Proof Social Choice Functions with Binary Ranges and Arbitrary Domains: Characterization Results”, International Journal of Game Theory. Published online October 2011. Barberà, Salvador, Dolors Berga and Bernado Moreno, “Domains, Ranges and Strategy-Proofness: The Case Of Single-Dipped Preferences”, Social Choice and Welfare. Published online December 2011. Barberà, Salvador and Lars Ehlers, “Free Triples, Large Indifference Classes and the Majority Rule”, Social Choice and Welfare 37(4)(2011), 559-574. Barberà, Salvador and Bernado Moreno, “Top Monotonicity: a Common Root for Single Peakedness, Single Crossing and the Median Voter Result”, Games and Economic

Behavior 73 (2011), 345-359. Barberà, Salvador and Birgit Grodal, “Preference for Flexibility and the Opportunities of Choice”, Journal of Mathematical Economics 47 (2011), 272-278. Caballé, Jordi Caballé, Jordi and Jana Hromcová,, “The Role of Central Bank Operating Procedures in an Economy with Productive Government Spending”, Computational Economics, 37 (2011), 39-65. Calsamiglia, Caterina Calsamiglia, Caterina, Guillaume Haeringer and Flip Klijn, “A Comment on: School Choice: An Experimental Study”, Journal of Economic Theory, 146 (2011), 392-396.


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Conesa, Juan Carlos Aubuchon, Craig, Juan Carlos Conesa and Carlos Garriga, “A Primer on Social Security Systems and Reforms”, Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis Review, 93 (2011), 19-36. Creel, Michael Creel, Michael and Montserrat Farell, “Modeling Usage of Medical Care Services: The Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Data, 1996-2000”, Applied Economics, 43 (2011) 2287-2302. Gambetti, Luca D'Agostino, Antonello, Luca Gambetti and Domenico Giannone, “Macroeconomic forecasting and structural change”, Journal of Applied Econometrics, forthcoming. Groener, Valeska Groenert, Valeska and Ben Zissimos, “Developing Country Second-Mover Advantage in Competition over Environmental Standards and Taxes”, Journal of Public Economic

Theory, forthcoming. Groenert, Valeska, “Trimmed Equilibrium”, International Journal of GameTheory. Haeringer, Guillaume Haeringer, Guillaume and Myrna Wooders, “Decentralized Job Matching”, International Journal of Game Theory, 40 (2011), 1-28. Calsamiglia, Caterina, Guillaume Haeringer and Flip Klijn, “A comment on School choice: An experimental study”, [J. Econ. Theory 127 (1) (2006) 202-231], Journal of

Economic Theory, 146 (2011), 392-396. Ballester, Miguel Ángel and Guillaume Haeringer, “A characterization of the single-peaked domain”, Social Choice and Welfare, 36 (2011), 305-322 Courtois, Pierre and Guillaume Haeringer, “Environmental Cooperation: Ratifying second-best agreements”, Public Choice, forthcoming. Macho-Stadler, Inés Banal-Estañol, Albert, Inés Macho Stadler and David Pérez Castrillo, “Research Output from University-Industry Collaborative Projects”, Economic Development Quarterly, forthcoming. Martínez-Legaz, Juan Enrique Martínez-Legaz, Juan Enrique and José Vicente Pérez, “The E-support Function of an E-convex Set and Conjugacy for E-convex Function”, Journal of Mathematical Analysis

and Applications, 376 (2011), 602–612. Rocco, Marco and Juan Enrique Martínez-Legaz, “On Surjectivity Results for Maximal Monotone Operators of Type (D)”, Journal of Convex Analysis, 18 (2011), 545–576. Ginchev, Ivan and Juan Enrique Martínez-Legaz, “Characterization of D.C. Functions in Terms of Quasidifferentials”, Nonlinear Analysis: Theory, Methods & Applications, 74 (2011), 6781–6787.


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Martínez-Legaz, Juan Enrique and Antonio Martinón, “On the Infimum of a Quasiconvex Function over an Intersection. Application to the Distance Function”, Journal of Convex Analysis, 18 (2011), 687–698. Mohebi, Hossein, Juan Enrique Martínez-Legaz and Marco Rocco, “Some Criteria for Maximal Abstract Monotonicity” Journal of Global Optimization, DOI 10.1007/s10898-011-9671-8. Martínez-Legaz, Juan Enrique and Antonio Martinón, “On the Infimum of a Quasiconvex Vector Function over an Intersection”, Top, DOI 10.1007/s11750-011-0222-8. Massó, Jordi Bergantiños, Gustavo, Jordi Massó and Alejandro Neme, “The Division Problem with Voluntary Participation”, Social Choice and Welfare, forthcoming. Bergantiños, Gustavo, Jordi Massó and Alejandro Neme, “The Division Problem with Maximal Capacity Constraints”, SERIEs: The Journal of the Spanish Economic

Association, forthcoming. Martínez, Ruth , Jordi Massó, Alejandro Neme and Jorge Oviedo, “On the Invariance of the Set of Core Matchings with Respect to Preference Profiles”, Games and Economic

Behavior, forthcoming. Miralles, Antonio Miralles, Antonio, “Cardinal Bayesian allocation mechanisms without transfers” Journal

of Economic Theory, forthcoming. Muto, Nozomu Galavott, Stefano, Nozomu Muto and Daisuke Oyama, “On Efficient Partnership Dissolution under Ex Post Individual Rationality”, Economic Theory, 48 (2011), 1, 87-123. Obiols-Homs, Francesc Obiols-Homs, Francesc, “On Borrowing Limits and Welfare”, Review of Economic

Dynamics, vol. 14 (2011), 279-294. Olivella, Pau Olivella, Pau and Marcos Vera-Hernández, “Testing for Asymmetric Information in Private Health Insurance”, The Economic Journal, forthcoming. García-Mariñoso, Begoña, Izabela Jelovac and Pau Olivella, “External Referencing and Pharmaceutical Price Negotiation”, Health Economics, 20 (2011), 737-756. Panadés , Judith Panadés, Judith, “Tipo Impositivo Único y Cumplimiento Fiscal”, El Trimestre

Económico, forthcoming. Pérez-Castrillo, David Alonso-Paulí, Eduard and David Pérez-Castrillo, “Codes of Best Practice in Competitive Markets for Managers”, Economic Theory, forthcoming.


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De Clippel, Geoffroy, David Pérez-Castrillo and David Wettstein, “Egalitarian Equivalence under Asymmetric Information, Games and Economic Behavior, forthcoming. Banal-Estañol, Albert, Inés Macho-Stadler and David Pérez-Castrillo, “Research Output from University-Industry Collaborative Projects”, Economic Development Quarterly, forthcoming. Raymond, Josep Lluís Raymond, Josep Lluís and J.L. Roig, “Intra firm human capital externalities and selection bias”, Applied Economics, 43 (2011), 4527-4536 Raymond, Josep Lluís, “La rentabilidad de la educación: un análisis comparado por países”, Cuadernos de Información Económica, 223 (2011), 21-28 Rey-Biel, Pedro Reuben, Ernesto, Pedro Rey-Biel and Poala Sapienza, “The Emergence of Male Leadership in Competitive Environments”, Journal of Economic Behavior and

Organization, forthcoming. Gneezy, Uri, Stephan Meier and Pedro Rey-Biel, “When and Why Incentives (Don`t) Work to Modify Behavior, Journal of Economics Perspectives, 25 (2011), 191-210. Brañas, Pablo, María Paz Espinosa and Pedro Rey-Biel, “Traveler's Types”, Journal of

Economic Behavior and Organization, 78 (2011), 25-36. Iriberri, Nagore and Pedro Rey-Biel, “The Role of Role Uncertainty in Modiefied Dictator Games”, Experimental Economics, 14 (2011), 160-180. Rodríguez-Planas, Núria Rodríguez-Planas, Núria,”Longer-Term Impacts of Mentoring, Educational Services, and Learning Incentives: Evidence from a Randomized Trial in the U.S”, American Economic

Journal: Applied Economics, forthcoming. Fernández Kranz, Daniel, Aitor Lacuesta and Núria Rodríguez-Planas, “The Motherhood Earnings Dip: Evidence from Administrative Data”, Journal of Human Resources, forthcoming. Rodríguez-Planas, Núria, “Mentoring, Educational Services, and Financial Incentives: What Do We Know about Them?”, Evaluation and Program Planning, forthcoming. Fernández Kranz, Daniel and Núria Rodríguez-Planas, “The Part-Time Penalty in a Segmented Labor Market”, Labour Economics, 18 (2011), 591–606. Rodríguez-Planas, Núria and Raquel Vegas, “Moroccans’ Assimilation in Spain: Family-Based versus Labor-Based Migration”, Middle East Development Journal, 3, (2011)

issue 2: 119-139. Rodríguez-Planas, Núria, “Determinants of Immigrant’s Cash-Welfare Benefit Intake in Spain.”, International Journal of Manpower, forthcoming.


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Books or Books Chapters Barberà, Salvador Barberà, Salvador, “Llull's Writings on Elections from the Perspective of Today's Research in Social Choice: an Economist's Viewpoint”, in A. Fidora and C. Sierra (eds.) Ramon Llull: From the Ars Magna to Artificial Intelligence. CSIC: Barcelona, chapter 5, 85-93, 2011. (Published electronically at http://www.iiia.csic.es/library.) Martínez-Giralt, Xavier Barros, Pedro P. and Xavier Martínez-Giralt, “Health Economics. An Industrial Organization Perspective”, Routledge, New York, 2011, ISBN: 9780415559898. Barros, Pedro P. and Xavier Martínez-Giralt, “Models of Negotiation and Bargaining in Health Care”, A.M. Jones, The Elgar Companion to Health Economics - 2nd edition, Cheltenham, UK, Edward Elgar, [ISBN: 978-1-84980-267-3], forthcoming. Martínez-Giralt, Xavier, “The preferred-provider market” A. Culyer, Encyclopedia of

Health Economics, forthcoming. Olivellal, Pau Olivella, Pau, Pedro Pita Barros, "Hospitals: Teaming Up", Smith P. and S. Glied, The Oxford Handbook of Health Economics, Oxford University Press, 2011. Raymond, Josep Lluís Raymond , Josep Lluís (Coordinator), “¿Es rentable educarse?: Marco conceptual y principales experiencias en los contextos español, europeo y en los países emergentes”, Fundación FUNCAS, 2011, ISBN: 978-84-89116-70-2 Rey-Biel, Pedro Gneezy, Uri and Pedro Rey-Biel,"What is an Economic Theory that Can Inform Experiments?",in G. Frechette and A. Schotter (eds.), Methods of Modern Experimental

Economics, forthcoming. Iriberri, Nagore and Pedro Rey-Biel, "Respuestas Iniciales en Situaciones Estratégicas",in P. Brañas (ed.), Economía Experimental del Comportamiento. Antoni Bosch Editor, chapter 5, 2011.

Working Papers Ballester, Miguel Ángel Apesteguia, José and Miguel Ángel Ballester, “A Measure of Rationality and Welfare” Barcelona GSE WP573. Barberà, Salvador Barberà, Salvador, Dolors Berga and Bernado Moreno, “Two Necessary Conditions For Strategy-Proofness: On What Domains Are They Also Sufficient?”, WP UFAE-IAE 2011.


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Beviá, Carmen Beviá, Carmen, Luís C. Corchón and Yosuke Yasuda, “Oligopolistic Equilibrium and Financial Constraints”, Barcelona GSE WP 547. Beviá, Carmen and Luís C. Corchón, “Endogenous Strength in Conflicts”, SSRN-

id1865154. Caballé, Jordi Alonso Carrera, Jaime, Jordi Caballé and Xavier Raurich, “Sectoral Composition and Macroeconomic Dynamics”, Barcelona GSE Working Papers Series 545. Caballé, Jordi and Judith Panadés, “Tax Evasion, Technology Shocks, and the Cyclicality of Government Revenues”, Barcelona GSE Working Papers Series 546. Choi, Sekyu Janiak Alexandre, Sekyu Choi and Benjamin Villena-Roldan, “Unemployment, Participation and Worker Flows over the Life Cycle”, CEA Working paper 278. Bick, Alexander and Sekyu Choi, “Life-Cycle Consumption: Can Single Agent Models Get it Right?, MPRA Paper 29017. Creel, Michael Creel, Michael and Dennis Kristensen, “Indirect Likelihood Inference”, Dynare WP. 08. Gambetti, Luca Gambetti, Luca, Mario Forni and Luca Sala, “No news in business cicles”, CEPR DP8274. Gambetti, Luca and Mario Forni, “Testing for sufficient information in structural VARs”, CEPR DP8209. Gnocchi, Stefano Gnocchi, Stefano, Alessia Campolmi, “Labor Market Participation, Unemployment and Monetary Policy”, MNB Working Papers 2011/4. Guner, Nezih Guner, Nezih, Dhritiman Bhattacharya and Gustavo Ventura, “Distortions, Endogenous Managerial Skills and Productivity Differences”, IZA Discussion Papers 5963. Guner, Nezih, Remzi Kaygusuz, and Gustavo Ventura, “Taxing Women: A Macroeconomic Analysis”, CEPR Discussion Papers 8735. Guner, Nezih, Jesús Fernández Villaverde and Jeremy Greenwood, “From Shame to Game in One Hundred Years: The Rise in Premarital Sex and its Destigmitization”, CEPR

Discussion Papers 8667. Guner, Nezih, Remzi Kaygusuz and Gustavo Ventura, “Income Taxation of U.S. Households: Basic Facts”, IZA Discussion Papers 5549. Haeringer, Guillaume Haeringer, Guillaume and Hanna Halaburda, “Better-reply dynamics in deferred


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acceptance games”, Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 12-045. Diamantoudi, Effrosini, Inés Macho-Stadler, David Pérez-Castrillo and Licun Xue, “Sharing the Surplus in Games with Externalities Within and Across Issues”, Barcelona

GSE W.P. 569 revised. Macho-Stadler, Inés and Antonio Freitas, “On the joint Production of Research and Training”, Barcelona GSE W.P. 531 revised. Macho-Stadler, Inés and Paula González, “A Theoretical Approach to Dual Practice Regulations in the Health Sector”, Pablo Olavide WP 11.01. Macho-Stadler, Inés, David Pérez-Castrillo and Nicolás Porteiro, “Coexistence of Long-term and Short-term Contracts”, UFAE and IAE Working Papers 872. Martínez-Giralt, Xavier Martínez-Giralt, Xavier and J.M. Usategui, “Iceberg transport technologies in spatial competition. Hotelling reborn”, UFAE and IAE WP 791.09. Martínez-Giralt, Xavier and Rosella Nicolini, “Firm Agreements and Technological Endowments”, Barcelona Economics WP 101. Martínez-Legaz, Juan Enrique Martínez-Legaz, Juan Enrique and Abderrahim Hantoute, “Characterization of Lipschitz Continuous DC Functions”, arXiv: 1201.1759v1 [math.FA]. García Ramos Yboon, Juan Enrique Martínez-Legaz and Stephen Simons “New Results on q-Positivity”, arXiv: 1111.6094v2 [math.FA]. Olivella, Pau Olivella Cunill, Pau and Fred Schroyen, “Multidimensional Screening in a Monopolistic Insurance Market”, D.P. Series in Economics, (NHH) 19/2011. Panadés, Judith Freire Serén, María Jesús and Judith Panadés, “Tax Avoidance, Human Capital Accumulation and Economic Growth”, Barcelona GSE Working Papers Series 599. Caballé, Jordi and Judith Panadés, “Tax Evasion, Technology Shocks, and the Cyclicality of Government Revenues”, Barcelona GSE Working Papers Series 546. Pérez-Castrillo, David Diamantoudi, Effrosini, Inés Macho-Stadler, David Pérez-Castrillo and Licun Xue, “Sharing the Surplus in Games with Externalities Within and Across Issues”, Barcelona

GSE W.P. 569 revised. Macho-Stadler, Inés, David Pérez-Castrillo and Nicolás Porteiro, “Coexistence of Long-term and Short-term Contracts”, UFAE and IAE Working Papers 872. Bing, Guo, Yun Lou and David Pérez-Castrillo, “Investment, Duration, and Exit Strategies for Corporate and Independent Venture Capital-backed Start-ups”, UFAE

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Rey-Biel, Pedro Iriberri, Nagore and Pedro Rey-Biel, “Let's (Not) Talk about Sex: The Effect of Information Provision on Gender Differences in Performance under Competition”, Barcelona GSE WP, 583 (2011). Uler, Neslihan, Pedro Rey-Biel and Roman Sheremeta, “(Bad) Luck or (Lack of ) Effort? Comparing Social Sharing Norms between US and Europe”, Barcelona GSE WP, 584

(2011). Gneezy, Uri and Pedro Rey-Biel, “On The Relative Efficiency of Performance Pay and Social Incentives”, Barcelona GSE WP, 585 (2011). Rodríguez-Planas, Núria Fernández Kranz, Daniel, Paul Marie and Núria Rodrígiuez-Planas, “Part-Time Status, Fixed-Term Contracts, and the Returns to Experience”, IZA discussion paper No. 5815,

June 2011. Nollenberger, Natalia and Núria Rodríguez-Planas, “Childcare, Maternal Employment, and Persistence: A Natural Experiment from Spain”, IZA discussion paper No. 5888, July

2011. Fernández Kranz, Daniel and Núria Rodrígiuez-Planas, “Unintended Effects of a Family-Friendly Law”,IZA discussion paper No. 5709, May, 2011.

UFAE Seminars

Applied Economics

Aysegul Sahin (Federal Reserve Bank of New York) "Mismatch in the Labor Market: Evidence from the UK and the US" Elizabeth Caucutt (University of Western Ontario) "Early and Late Human Capital Investments, Borrowing Constraints, and the Family" Jeremy Lise (University College London and IFS) “Matching, Sorting and Wages" Carlos Santos (Universidad de Alicante) "Sunk Costs of R&D, Trade and Productivity: the Moulds Industry Case" Lucca Flabbi (Georgetown University) "Household Search or Individual Search: Does It Matter? Evidence from Lifetime Inequality Estimates." Jaap Abbring (Tilburg University) "Better Safe than Sorry? Ex Ante and Ex Post Moral Hazard in Dynamic Insurance Data" Carl Johan Dalgaard (University of Copenhague) with Thomas Barnebeck Andersen and Pablo Selaya


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“Eye disease and Development” Paolo Epifani (Bocconi University) “Productivity, Quality and Export Behavior” Romain Rancière (Paris School of Economics) "Credit Standards and Segregation" Maarten Lindeboom (VU University Amsterdam) "The Long Run Effects of Birth in the Duch Hunger Winter on Labor Market Outcomes and Hospitalizations" Marco Manacorda (London School of Economics) "Do Cash Transfers Improve Birth Outcomes? Evidence from Matched Vital Statistcs, Social Security and Program Data" Sergi Pardos-Pardo (Nuffield College; University of Oxford) "On Where and Why Immigration Affects Electoral Competition in Europe"

Macroeconomics

Chris Telmer (Carnegie Mellon University) "Monetary Policy and the Uncovered Interest Rate Parity Puzzle" Patrick Pintus (Université Aix-Marseille II) “Leapfrogging, Growth Reversals and Welfare” Greg Kaplan (University of Pennsylvania) with Gianluca Violante “Understanding the Consumption Response to Fiscal Stimulus Payments” Francisco González (University of Calgary) "Why Intergenerational Conflict Causes too much Growth" Winfried Koeniger (Queen Mary University of London) “Debt Portfolios” Peter Gottschalk (Boston College) "Some Evidence on the Importance of Sticky Wages" Elena del Rey (University of Girona) “Dynamic Efficiency and Optimal Public Policy in an Endogenous Growth Model” Tim Kehoe (University of Minnesota) "Self-Fulfilling Liquidity Crises versus Self-Fulfilling Solvency Crises" Guido Menzio (University of Pennsylvania) "Optimal Insurance of Search Risk"


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Antonia Díaz (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) "A Theory of Energy Use" Lourii Manovski (University of Pennsylvania) "Identifying Technology Shocks in Models with Heterogeneous Inputs" Markus Poschke (McGill University) "The Firm Size Distribution Across Countries and Skill-biased Change in Entrepreneurial Technology" Mauro Bambi (University of York, UK) "Endogenous Growth and Endogenous Fluctuations with External Addictive Habits" Paolo Epifani (Bocconi University) con Sarolta Laczo "Efficient Risk Sharing with Limited Commitment and Hidden Saving" Miklos Koren (Central European University, Budapest) "Machines and Machinists: Capital-skill Complementarity from an International Trade Perspective" Bjorn Brugemann (Yale, University of Amsterdam) "Welfare Effects of Short-Time Compensation" Francesco Lippi (University of Sassari and Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance,

EIEF) "The Optimum Quantity of Money with Borrowing Constraints" Jeremy Greenwood (University of Pennsylvania) "Underwriting Ventures: Trust but Verify" Pierpaolo Benigno (LUISS Guido Carli) "Unemployment and Productivity in the Long Run: the Role of Macroeconomics Volatility"

Microeconomics

Marko Terviö (Aalto University School of Economics) "Income Distribution and Housing Prices: An Assignment Model Approach" Rosemarie Nagel (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) “Assessing Strategic Risk with fMRI” Antonio Cabrales (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) "Entropy and the Value of Information for Investors" Rosa Ferrer (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) "Overworking in Court: Evidence from Young Lawyers' Hours of Work"


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Joana Resende (University of Porto) "Competitive Target Advertising with Price Discrimination" Dezsö Szalay (University of Bonn) "Incomplete Language as an Incentive Device" Yinghua He (Toulouse School of Economics) "Gaming the Boston School Choice Mechanism" Gilat Levy (London School of Economics) "Gradualism in Dynamic Influence Games" Dino Gerardi (Collegio Carlo Alberto) "The Role of Commitment in Bilateral Trade" Annick Laruelle (Universidad del País Vasco and IKERBASQUE) "Discriminating by Tagging: Artificial Distinction, Real Discrimination" Emilio Calvano (Università Bocconi) "The Impact of the Internet on Advertising Market for News Media" Aytek Erdil (University of Cambridge) "Strategy-proof Stochastic Assignment" Jacob Goeree (University of Zurich) "On the Equivalence of Bayesian and Dominant Strategy Implementation in a General Class of Social Choice Problems" Ángel López (IESE) "Who Should Pay for Two-way Interconnection?" Syngjoo Choi (University College London) "Who Is (More) Rational?" Peter Esö (University of Oxford) "Persuasion and Stubbornness in a Dynamic Trading Game" Marzena Rostek (University of Wisconsin-Madison) "Price Inference in Small Markets" Aviad Heifetz (The Open University of Israel) "Avian Contests: Game Theory in the Wild (Savanas)"

Internal Workshop: Social Choice & Game Theory

Pedro-Rey Biel (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) “On the Relative Efficiency of Performance Pay and Social Incentives”


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Prasanta K. Pattanaik (University of California, Riverside) "On Measuring Deprivation and Living Standards of Societies in a Multi-attribute Framework" Shmuel Zamir (Hebrew University) "Extending the Condorcet Jury Theorem to a General Dependent Jury Matthew Ellman (Institut d'Anàlisi Econòmica) "How to Subsidise the Media: Optimal Designs for Dealing with Consumption Externalities" Johannes Gierlinger (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) "Matching and Self-enforcing Insurance" Juan Vidal-Puga (Universidade de Vigo) "Taxation in the Spanish Online Betting Market" José Apesteguia (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) "A Foundation for Strategic Agenda Voting" David Cantala (Colegio de México) "Auction-barter in the Assignment Game" Shurojit Chatterji (Singapore Management University) "Contracting Over Prices" Antonio Miralles (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) "All about Priorities: no School Choice under the Presence of Bad Schools" Saptarshi Mukherjee (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona) "Choice in Ordered-tree-based Decision Problems" Valeska Gröner (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) "Social Learning under Homophily" David Pérez-Castrillo (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) "Sharing the Susplus in Games wifh Externalities within and Across Issues" Eve Ramaekers (CORE and U. Louvain) "Implementation in Undominated Strategies" Pedro Rey-Biel (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) "Let's (Not) Tlak About Sex: The Effect of Information on Gender Differences in Perfomance under Competition" Tugce Cuhadaroglu (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) "My Group Can Beat up Your Group: Beyond Income Inequality Measurement" Antoni Nicolò (Università degli Studi di Padova) "Age-Based Preferences: Incorporating Compatible Pairs into Paired Kidney Exchange"


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Antonio Calzada (Universitat de Barcelona) "Competition in the Media: Fighting Rivals with New Versions or Allowing their Links?"

Job Market Seminars

Joan Llull (CEMFI) "Immigration, Wages, and Education: A Labor Market Equilibrium Structural Model" Dario Caldara (IIES, Stockholm) "The Analytics of SVARs: A Unified Framework to Measure Fiscal Multipliers" Juan Sebastián Lleras (UC Berkeley) “Expecting Information Informing Expected Utility: Identification of Information Partitions, Preferences, and Beliefs” Marta Serra García (Tilburg University) "Moral Hazard in Credit Markets: The Incentive Effect of Collateral" Till Oliver Gross (UC Santa Barbara) "Ramsey Taxation and (the Absence of) Tax Competition" Marti Mestieri (M.I.T.) “Wealth distribution and Human Capital: How Borrowing Constraints Shape Educational Systems” Mar Reguant (M.I.T. ) "The Welfare Effects of Complementary Bidding Mechanisms An Empirical Analysis of the Spanish Wholesale Electricity Market" Raicho Bojilov (Columbia University) “Estimating the Effects of Incentives When Workers Learn about Their Ability” Jonathan Halket (University College London ) "Do Households Use Homeownership To Insure Themselves? Evidence Across U.S. Cities" Ozgur Evren (New York University) "Rational choice deferral"

Faculty Seminars Calsamiglia, Caterina Edinburgh University Edinburgh, UK


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Choi, Sekyu Stockholm School of Economics Stockholm, Sweden Research Department, Minneapolis Fed Minneapolis, MN, US Conesa, Juan Carlos Toulouse School of Economics Toulouse, France Bank of Portugal Lisbon, Portugal CEMFI Madrid, Spain Creel, Michael University of Alicante Alicante, Spain

Gambetti, Luca Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona, Spain

Gnocchi, Stefano Milano Bicocca Milano, Italy Humboldt University Berlin, Germany Queen Mary University London, United Kingdom EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland

Guner, Nezih New York University New York, USA University of Bristol Bristol, UK Haeringer, Guillaume Paris School of Economics Paris, France


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Llull, Joan Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Bellaterra, Spain Universitat Rovira i Virgili Reus, Spain Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Bellaterra, Spain Universitat de Girona Girona, Spain University of Bristol Bristol, United Kingdom Institute for Advanced Studies (his) Vienna, Austria Universidad de Navarra Pamplona, Spain Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona, Spain McGill University Montreal, Canada Washington University in St Louis St Louis-Missouri - United States Uppsala University Uppsala, Sweden Universitat d'Alacant Alacant, Spain Universitat de València València, Spain Universitat de les Illes Balears Palma de Mallorca, Spain Tinbergen Institute Amsterdam, Netherlands CEMFI Madrid, Spain

Macho-Stadler, Inés Universidad Carlos III de Madrid Madrid, Spain Crest, ENSAE Paris,France Universidad de Salamanca Salamanca, Spain


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Martínez-Legaz, Juan Enrique Università degli Studi di Bergamo Bergamo, Italy Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg Halle, Germany

GATE Lyon, France INGENIO Valencia, Spain

Massó, Jordi Istanbul Bilgi University Istanbul, Turkey Muto, Nozomu Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona Barcelona, Spain Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Be'er Sheva, Israel Kyoto University Kyoto, Japan University of Tokyo Tokyo, Japan Pérez-Castrillo, David Universidad de Salamanca Salamanca, Spain University of York York, UK GATE Lyon, France CREST Paris, France Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Beer-Sheva, Israel University College Dublin Dublin, UK Rey-Biel, Pedro University of Tilburg Tilburg, Holland University of Warwick Warwick, UK


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Rodríguez-Planas, Núria University of Oxford Oxford, UK IZA Bonn, Germany Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) Madrid, Spain Universtitat d’Alacant Alacant, Spain Sánchez, Virginia Universidad Pública de Navarra Pamplona, Spain

Grants and Awards

Barberà, Salvador Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación Plan Nacional I+D+i “Institutional Design and Good Governmental Practice: Theory, Applications and Simulations” Caballé, Jordi Generalitat de Catalunya—SGR Group of Macroeconomic Analysis Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación Plan Nacional I+D+i “Fiscal Policy: Generational Tax Incidency and the Interaction with the Market Structure” Calsamiglia, Caterina Institut Català de la Dona “Relació entre Capacitat i Rendiment de les Dones Segons el Grau de Presió en el Procés d'Avaluació” Esteban, Susanna Fundación Ramón Areces Ayudas a la Investigación “Ocultación, Delegación y Jerarquía de la Empresa” Guner, Nezih European Research Council Starting Grants “Changing Families: Causes, Consequences, and Challenges for Public Policy”


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RecerCaixa Convocatòria RecerCaixa 2011 “Households and Children: Rethinking the Welfare State” Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación Plan Nacional I+D+i “Structure and Dynamics in Markets and Politics” Generalitat de Catalunya—SGR Coalitions, Incentives, and Networks in the Choice of Collective Decisions Raymond, Josep Lluís CICYT “Infraestructuras y capital humano como factores de crecimiento” Rey-Biel, Pedro Instituto de la Mujer Estudios de Género “Experimentos Económicos. Igualdad de Géneros en Ámbitos de Competencia Laboral” Rodríguez-Planas, Núria Barcelona Graduate School of Economics CREMed “Moroccans’ Assimilation Process in Spain: Family-Based versus Labor-Based Migration”

Consulting and Research Contracts

Martínez-Giralt, Xavier Iberdrola “Energía y Sociedad”

Graduate Advising

Barberà, Salvador Diego M. Caramuta “Three Essays on Strategy-proofness: Choosing Intervals and Locating Public Goods” Neoeconomics. Barcelona, Spain Nan Li “Essays on Judgment Aggregation and Argumentation” Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, China Caballé, Jordi Lorenzo Burlon “Essays on Intersectoral Dynamics” Bank of Italy, Italy


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Calsamiglia, Caterina Pau Balart “Essays on Admission Policies in Education and the Labor Market” Universidad Carlos III, Spain Esteban, Susanna Joaquín Coleff “Essays in Industrial and Organizational Economics” Universidad de Rosario, Bogotá, Colombia Joaquín Gómez “Essays on Behavioral Economics” Economics Science Institute, Chapman University, United States of America Co-advisor, together with. M. Ángeles de Frutos Guner, Nezih Eva Garcia Moran “Essays on Economics of Family” Max Weber Fellowship Italy PhD (U. Carlos III) Martínez-Giralt, Xavier Tommaso Majer “Essays on Industrial Organization” Office of Fair Trading (OFT), UK Martínez-Legaz, Juan Enrique Marco Rocco “Maximal Monotone Operators, Convex Representations and Duality” Università degli Studi di Bergamo, Italy Obiols-Homs, Francesc Daryna Grechyna “Essays on dynamic macroeconomics” University of Auckland, Econonomics Department, New Zealand

Academic and Research Visits Ballester, Miguel Ángel Murat Sertel Center Economics Department Bilgi University Istanbul, Turkey GREQAM Marseille, France


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Calsamiglia, Caterina Yale University Economics Department New Haven, CT, USA Edinburgh University Economics Department Edinburgh, UK Choi, Sekyu Universidad de Chile Centro de Economía Aplicada Santiago, Chile Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Research Department Minneapolis, MN, US University of Chicago Booth School of Business Chicago, IL, US Gnocchi, Stefano EPFL Chair of International Finance Lausanne EUI Economics Department Florence, Italy Haeringer, Guillaume Harvard Business School Strategy Unit Boston, USA Université Paris Dauphine LEDA Paris, France Macho-Stadler, Inés Paris School of Economics Paris, France Martínez-Giralt, Xavier Universidade Nova de Lisboa Nova School of Business and Economics Lisboa, Portugal


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Martínez-Legaz, Juan Enrique National Sun Yat-sen University Department of Applied Mathematics Kaohsiung, Taiwan University of Ballarat Graduate School of Information Technology & Mathematical Sciences Ballarat, Australia Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg Institute of Mathematics Halle, Germany Massó, Jordi Universidade da Vigo Statistics Department Vigo, Spain Istanbul Bilgi University Economics Istanbul, Turkey Muto, Nozomu Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Department of Economics Beer-Sheva, Israel Olivella, Pau University of York Department of Economics York, UK Panadés, Judith City University London Department of Economics London, UK Pérez-Castrillo, David Paris School of Economics Paris, France Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Economics Department Beer-Sheva, Israel Vilà, Xavier University of Stavanger Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Stavanger, Norway


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Conference and Workshop Presentations as Speaker

Ballester, Miguel Ángel MOVE Meeting on Coalition Theory Workshop Bellaterra, Spain February Doc-Course-IMUS on The Mathematics of Games: Strategies, Cooperation and Fair Division Sevilla,Spain March II Jornadas de trabajo sobre sistemas de votación Valdeavellano de Tera (Soria), Spain April Economic Design Meeting Montreal, Canada June 10th Journées Louis-André Gérard-Varet Marseille, France June Choices, Games and Economic Organizations A tribute in honor of Claude D’Aspremont and Jean-François Mertens Belgium, Brussels June Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory Faro, Portugal July Salamanca Social Science Festival Salamanca, Spain October Simposio de Análisis Económico Málaga, Spain December Caballé, Jordi Conference on “The Shadow Economy, Tax Evasion, and Money Laundering” Munster, Germany July Calsamiglia, Caterina Matching in Practice Brussels, Belgium May


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Swet Conference Madrid, Spain June Choi, Sekyu 2011 Annual Meeting of the Society for Economic Dynamics Ghent, Belgium July NBER Summer Institute Boston, MA, US August VI REDg Workshop Barcelona, Spain September Creel, Michael 5th CSDA International Conference on Computational and Financial Econometrics (CFE'11) London, UK December Gierlinger , Johannes Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory Conference Faro, Portugal May Econometric Society European Meeting Oslo, Norway August Spanish Economic Association Meeting Málaga, Spain December Gnocchi, Stefano EES Workshop on Labor Market Institutions and the Macroeconomy Nuremberg, Germany June Society for Computation in Economics and Finance, Annual Meeting San Francisco, USA July Groenert, Valeska Barcelona Jocs Barcelona, Spain May


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Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory Faro, Portugal July Guner, Nezih 77th Meeting of the Carnegie-Rochester Conference on Public Policy New York, USA April VII Workshop in Public Policy Design Girona, Spain May Soceity for Economic Dynamics Annual Meeting Ghent, Belgium July Haeringer, Guillaume CTN workshop Barcelona, España February Public Economic Theory Bloomington, US June Economic Design Conference Montreal, Canada July Llull , Joan Migration: Economic Change, Social Challenge (UCL) London, United Kingdom April IV Summer School in Public Economics (IEB) Barcelona, Spain July European Economic Association – Econometric Society Summer Meeting Oslo, Norway August Macho-Stadler, Inés The Symposium of Industrial Organization and Management Strategy Chengdu, China June Symposium on Universities, Innovation and Territory, IEB Barcelona, Spain September


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XXXVII Simposio de la Asociación Española de Economía-Spanish Economic Association (SAEe) Málaga, Spain December Martínez-Giralt, Xavier Lisboa, Portugal July Martínez-Legaz, Juan Enrique Seminario de Matemáticas Elche, Spain May XX European Workshop on General Equilibrium Theory Baiona, Spain June III Alicante-Elche-Limoges International Workshop Castro Urdiales, Spain June The 9th EUROPT Workshop on Advances in Continuous Optimization Ballarat, Australia July X International Seminar in Optimization and Related Areas Lima, Peru October 7èmes Journées Franco-Chiliennes Perpignan, France December International Conference on: Numerical Analysis and Optimization – Theory and Applications Dhahran, Saudi Arabia December Muto, Nozomu 6th Pan Pacific Conference on Game Theory Tokyo, Japan January Olivella, Pau XXXI Jornadas de Economía de la Salud Palma de Mallorca, Spain May XXXVII Simposio de la Asociación Española de Economía-Spanish Economic Association (SAEe)


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Malaga, Spain December Pérez-Castrillo, David CESifo Area Conference on Applied Microeconomics Munich, Germany March Economics of science: where do we stand? Paris, France April The Symposium of Industrial Organization and Management Strategy Chengdu, China June Fourth Annual Conference on Entrepreneurship and Innovation Chicago, US June Zvi Griliches Research Seminar in the Economics of Innovation Barcelona, Spain July Academic Entrepreneurship Workshop San Sebastian, Spain September EARIE Meeting Stockholm, Sweden September XXXVII Simposio de la Asociación Española de Economía-Spanish Economic Association (SAEe) Málaga, Spain December Rey-Biel, Pedro ESRC Workshop on Applications of Game Theory Warwick, UK Workshop on Econometric Methods Applied to Experimental Data Berlin, Germany Innsbruck Workshop on Gender Economics Austria Experimental Economics and Experimental Philosophy Cursos de Verano San Sebastián, Spain International Meeting on Behavioral en Experimental Economics Barcelona XXXVI Simposio de Análisis Económico Málaga


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Rodríguez-Planas, Núria European Economics Association Conference (EEA) Oslo, Norway Second Economics of the Mediterranean and the Euromediterranean Process Flexibilty in the Labor Market: Boon or Bane? Nuremberg, Germany IZA Workshop: Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills Bonn, Germany Vilà, Xavier II Jornadas de trabajo sobre sistemas de votación Valdeavellano de Tera (Soria), Spain

As Discussant

Caballé Vilella, Jordi Symposium on “Economic Development and Growth.” Barcelona, Spain November Choi, Sekyu ICREA-MOVE Conference on Family Economics Barcelona, Spain March Llull, Joan ICREA-MOVE Conference on Family Economics Bellaterra, Spain March Martínez-Giralt, Xavier Patient's multihoming in a health care model Valencia, Spain September Panadés, Judith by John Robert Stinespring Tax Evasion and The Decline Of The Roman Empire Muenster, Germany July Rodríguez-Planas, Núria Fifth INSIDE Workshop Institut d’Anàlisi Econòmic-CSIC Barcelona, Spain


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Participation in Local and Scientifics Committees of Conferences

Ballester, Miguel Ángel Member of the Local Committee COSME workshop Barcelona, Spain Organizer GDRI workshop Marseille, France Caballé, Jordi Member of the Programme Committee Conference on “Optimization, Theory, Algorithms, and Applications in Economics” Bellaterra, Spain Conesa, Juan Carlos Member of the Scientific Committee Dynamic Macroeconomics Workshop Vigo, Spain Esteban, Susanna Member of the Scientific Committee Simposio de la Asociación Española de Economía Málaga, Spain Guner, Nezih Member of the Scientific Committee ICREA-MOVE Workshop on Family Economcis Barcelona, Spain Member of the Scientific Committee Public Economic Theory Bloomington, USA Co-organizer CTN Workshop Barcelona, España Member of the Scientific Committee European Meeting Econometric Society Oslo, Norway Macho-Stadler, Inés Member of the Scientific Committee VI Encuentro Anual de la Asociación Española para la Economía Energética (AEEE) Barcelona, Spain Member of the Programme Committee European Economic Association EEA


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Oslo, Norway Member of the Programme Committee EARIE Meeting Stockholm, Sweden Co-organizer MOVE Workshop on Venture Capital Barcelona, Spain Co-organizer Conference of IDEA20years Barcelona, Spain Co-organizer 2nd IO Workshop Barcelona Barcelona, Spain Co-organizer Votes and Incentives: The Design of Institutions Member of the Programme Committee VII Encuentro Anual de la Asociación Española para la Economía Energética (AEEE) Pamplona, Spain Martínez-Legaz, Juan Enrique Member of the Programme Committee Workshop on Computational Optimization (WCO’2011) Szczecin, Poland Member of the Scientific Committee X International Seminar in Optimization and Related Areas Lima, Perú Massó, Jordi Co-organizer 16 Coalition Network Thoery Workshop Barcelona, Spain Co-organizer First MOVE-ISER Joint Workshop Barcelona, Spain Co-organizer Votes and Incentives: The Design of Institutions Barcelona, Spain Co-organizer IDEA's 20th Anniversary Barcelona, Spain Co-organizer VIII Annual Meeting of the REES Bilbao, Spain


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Member of the Programme Committee 12th International Meeting of the Association for Public Economic Theory Bloomington, USA Olivella, Pau Member of the Scientific Committee European Health Economics Workshop Brescia, Italy Pérez-Castrillo, David Co-organizer Conference of IDEA20years Barcelona, Spain Co-organizer Votes and Incentives: The Design of Institutions Barcelona, Spain Co-organizer MOVE Workshop on Venture Capital Barcelona, Spain Co-organizer MOVE-IESE-ACC1Ó Workshop on Innovation Series Barcelona, Spain Member of the Scientific Committee Industrial Organization: Theory, Empirics and Experiments Lecce, Italy

Editorial Activities

Barberà, Salvador Associate Editor Games and Economic Behavior Associate Editor Social Choice and Welfare Advisory Board Theoria Caballé, Jordi Editorial Board Portuguese Economics Journal Associate Editor Journal of Macroeconomics


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Conesa, Juan Carlos Associate Editor Macroeconomic Dynamics Guner, Nezih Co-Editor Economic Inquiry Associate Editor Journal of Population Economics Haeringer, Guillaume Associate Editor Journal of Public Economic Theory Macho-Stadler, Inés Associate Editor Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization Associate Editor Games and Economic Behavior Associate Editor Journal of Economics and Management Strategy Associate Editor Revue e’Economie Politique Martínez-Legaz, Juan Enrique Editor-in-Chief Optimization Editorial Board Journal of Convex Analysis Editorial Board Journal of Global Optimization Associate Editor TOP Scientific Committee Cuadernos Aragoneses de Economía Editorial Board Set-Valued and Variational Analysis: Theory and Applications Associate Editor International Journal of Optimization: Theory, Methods and Applications Associate Editor Taiwanese Journal of Mathematics Associate Editor International Journal of Operations Research


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Editor PanAmerican Mathematical Journal Massó, Jordi Associate Editor Social Choice and Welfare Associate Editor Economics Bulletin Associate Editor Economics Research International Olivella, Pau Associate Editor Journal of Health Economics Co-Editor Elsevier On-Line Encyclopedia of Health Economics Pérez-Castrillo, David Associate Editor International Game Theory Review Associate Editor Journal of Economics and Management Strategy Associate Editor SERIEs, Journal of the Spanish Economic Association Rey-Biel, Pedro Co-editor Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization

Committee Membership and Scientific Advisory

Barberà, Salvador Corresponding Member Academia Nacional Argentina de Ciencias Económicas, since 2008 Council Member Social Choice and Welfare Society, since 1990 Member of the Advisory Council Ikerbasque, since 2009 Member of the Advisory Council Alto Consejo Consultivo en investigación, Desarrollo e Innovación de la Presidencia de la Generalitat Valenciana, since 2008 Jury “Premis Nacionals de Recerca” Fundació Institució Catalana de Suport a la Recerca, since 2011


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Jury Urrutia Elejalde Diversity Prize (FUE Diversity Prize), since 2010 Jury Calvó-Armengol International Prize, since 2008 Caballé, Jordi Scientific Advisory Subcomisión de evaluación de la investigación en Ciencias Sociales de la “Agencia per a la Qualitat del Sistema Universitari Català” (AQU), since 2011 National Expert ACADEMIA Programa, ANECA, since 2008 Macho-Stadler, Inés Member of the Advisory Council Consejo de Estudios La Caixa, since 2008 Member of the Advisory Council Member of the Advisory Council EARNA (Asociación HispanoPortuguesa de Economía de los Recursos Naturales y Ambientales), since 2011 Council Member Consejo de Estudios de la Barcelona GSE, since 2006 Council Member EARIE, since 2008 Massó, Jordi Elected Member Council of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare , since 2006 Member Murat Sertel Center for Advanced Economic Studies, since 2011 Rey-Biel, Pedro Organizer and Member of the Scientific Committee IMEBE 2011

Dissemination and Public Awareness Activities

Calsamiglia, Caterina “School Choice in Spain: theory and evidence” Opuscle CREI September, 2011 “Measures of Subjective Well-Being” INE, Madird November, 2011 Gnocchi, Stefano “Per què s'ataca Itàlia, i per què just en aquests moments?” Diari ARA November, 2011


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Guner, Nezih “TEDx Talk on Changing Families: What Does the Economy Have to Do with It?” TEDx Barcelona November, 2011 Editor de Economía de la página web Matematicalia, 2011

Prizes and Honours

Barberà, Salvador Fellow, Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory, since 2011 Fellow, Asociación Argentina de Economía Política, since 2008 Fellow, Spanish Economic Association, since 2006 Fellow, Econometric Society, since 1988 Caballé, Jordi ICREA Academia Award, since 2010 Conesa, Juan Carlos ICREA Academia Award, since 2009 Martínez-Legaz, Juan Enrique EUROPT Fellow, since 2011 Massó, Jordi Fellow, Spanish Economic Asociation, since 2009 ICREA Academia Award, since 2008 Pérez Castrillo, David ICREA Academia Award, sice 2009

Fonaments de l’Anàlisi Econòmica - pareto.uab.catpareto.uab.cat/pdf/reports/report2011.pdfAlcalde-Unzu, Jorge and Miguel Ángel Ballester, “Ranking opportunity profiles through

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