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Economic
Analysis
Biannual report
2003-2004
Departament d’Economia I d’Història Econòmica
Unitat de Fonaments de l’Anàlisis Econòmica
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Unitat de Fonaments de l’Anàlisi Econòmica
Departament d’Economia i d’Història Econòmica
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Edifici B
08193 Bellaterra (Barcelona)
Tel.: 93 581 12 03
Fax: 93 581 20 12
URL: http://selene.uab.es/_cs_u_fonaments
e-mail: d.econ.h.economica@uab.es
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
I. GENERAL INFORMATION..........................................................................................................4
II.STAFF ...........................................................................................................................................5
II.1 Faculty...................................................................................................................................5
II.2 Affiliated researchers........................................................................................................... 8
II.3 Affiliated faculty....................................................................................................................9
II.4 Visiting professorss.............................................................................................................10
II.5 Administrative staff.............................................................................................................14
III. PUBLICATIONS……………………………………………………….........................................................15
III.1 Articles in scientific journals..............................................................................................15
III.2 Articles published in books and book reviews..................................................................23
III.3 Books...………………………………………………………………………………………….........................25
IV. OTHER ACTIVITIES…..............................................................................................................26
IV.1 Visit to other institutions...................................................................................................26
IV.2 Editorial activities...........………..........................................................................................27
IV.3 Organization of conferences, seminars and collaboration in scientific committees........29
V. DOCTORAL PROGRAM…………………………………………………………………………………..….……....33
V.1 International Doctorate in Econonic Analysis (IDEA).......................................................33
V.2 Publications by Ph.D. students...........................................................................................34
V.3 Placement positions of the students graduated
during 2003-04 ................................................................................................................34
VI. SEMINARS……………………………….….......................................................................................35
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I. GENERAL INFORMATION
This brochure gives an overview of the activities of the members of the Unit of
Economic Analysis during 2003 and 2004. The Unit of Economic Analysis of the
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona is part of the Department of Economics and
Economic History and has two main objectives: the formation of human capital in
economics and the pursuit of research in theoretical and applied economics at the
highest level of excellence.
On the research front, members of the unit published 113 articles in journals and 17
articles in books. The collection of working papers in which we participate issued 58
articles. Members of the unit presented papers in academic conferences, carried out
editorial duties for scientific journals and were either the principal organizers or were
part of the organizing committees of several conferences.
On the teaching front, we offer a wide range of courses in Economic Theory,
Econometrics and quantitative methods at the undergraduate level. Our Ph.D. program,
IDEA (International Doctorate in Economic Analysis) aims at admitting and training the
best students. On the academic year 2003-2004, IDEA students come from Australia,
Austria, Belgium, Brasil, Bulgaria, China, Croatia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy,
Letonia, Mexico, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Turkey, United Kingdom, United
States, Venezuela, and Spain. At present, more than 50% of IDEA students come from
abroad.
Further information on the activity of the Unit is available at the Unit’s web page
http://selene.uab.es/_cs_u_fonaments. A longer version of this report in Spanish can be
dowloaded from http://selene.uab.es/_cs_u_fonaments/caste/memo03-04.pdf
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II. STAFF
II.1 Faculty
Jordi Andreu Aznar Ph.D. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 1975.
Field: Growth Theory.
Lluís Barbé Duran Ph.D. Universitat de Barcelona, 1966.
Field: Classic Theory of Value.
Salvador Barberà Sández Ph.D. Northwestern University, 1975.
Fields: Public Economics, Social Choice.
Carmen Beviá Baeza Ph.D. Universitat d’Alacant, 1994.
Fields: Public Economics, Social Choice.
Jordi Caballé Vilella Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania, 1989.
Fields: Finance, Growth.
Maite Cabeza Gutes Ph.D. University of California, Davis, 1991.
Field: Agrarian Economics.
Antoni Calvó Armengol Ph.D. Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2000.
Fields: Networks, Microeconomics, Game Theory.
Muriel Casals Couturier Ph.D. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 1981.
Field: Political Economics.
Michael Creel Ph.D. University of California, Davis, 1990.
Fields: Econometrics, Environmental Economics.
Montserrat Farell Ferrer Ph.D. University of California, Davis, 1993.
Fields: Econometrics, Production Theory.
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Isabel Fradera Garriga Ph.D. Northwestern University, 1980.
Fields: Mathematical Economics, Imperfect
Competition.
Xavier Jarque Ribera Ph.D. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 1995.
Field: Dynamic Systems.
Inés Macho Stadler Ph.D. École des Hautes Études en Sciences
Sociales, 1989.
Fields: Economics of Information, Industrial
Organization.
Xavier Martínez Giralt Ph.D. Université catholique de Louvain, CORE,
1988.
Fields: Industrial Organization, Health Economics.
Juan Enrique Martínez Legaz Ph.D. Universitat de Barcelona, 1981.
Fields: Optimization Theory, Convex Analysis,
Mathematical Economics.
Jordi Massó Carreras Ph.D. State University of New York at Stony
Brook, 1988.
Fields: Game Theory, Social Choice.
Francesc Obiols Homs Ph.D. Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 1996.
Fields: Heterogeneous Agents, Computation
Methods.
Pau Olivella Cunill Ph.D. Northwestern University, 1989.
Fields: Economics of Information, Health
Economics.
Judith Panadés Martí Ph.D. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2000.
Fields: Public Finance, Tax Evasion.
David Pérez Castrillo Ph.D. École des Hautes Études en Sciences
Sociales, 1991.
Field: Economics of Information.
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Howard Petith Ph.D. University of Rochester, 1972.
Fields: Growth, Marxian Economics.
Conxita Pinyol Pérez Ph.D. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 1987.
Field: Dynamic Systems.
Clemente Polo Andrés Ph.D. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 1984.
Fields: Applied General Equilibrium, Applied
Econometrics.
Josep Lluís Raymond Bara Ph.D. Universitat de Barcelona, 1974.
Fields: Econometrics, Applied Econometrics.
Hugo Rodríguez Mendizábal Ph.D. University of Chicago, 1997.
Fields: Macroeconomics, Monetary Economy,
International Economy.
Núria Rodríguez Planas Ph.D. Boston University, 1999.
Fields: Labor Economics, Applied Econometrics,
Applied Microeconomics.
Ferran Sancho Pifarré Ph.D. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 1983.
Fields: General Equilibrium, Quantitative Methods.
Valeri Sorolla Amat Ph.D. University of California, Davis, 1992.
Fields: Labor Economics, Macroeconomics.
Carlos Velasco Gómez Ph.D. London School of Economics, 1997.
Fields: Temporary Series, Non-stationary and
Long-memory Processes.
Josep Maria Vegara Carrió Ph.D. Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 1970.
Fields: Environmental Economics, Economics of
Technological Change.
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Xavier Vilà Carnicero Ph.D. Northwestern University, 1994.
II. 2 Affiliated researchers
Fields: Game Theory, Agent Based Economics,
Decision Theory.
M. Ángel Ballester Oyarzún Ph.D. Universidad Pública de Navarra, 2002.
Fields: Social Choice, Choice Theory.
Marco Casari Ph.D. California Institute of Technology, 2002.
Fields: Game Theory, Experimental Economics.
Pierre Courtois Ph.D. Université Paris X Nanterre, 2002.
Fields: Environmental Economics, Microeconomics.
Joan Crespo Fernández Ph.D. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 1999.
Field: Algebraic Topology.
Danilo Guaitoli Ph.D. University of Chicago, 1994.
Fields: Macroeconomics, Economics of Information.
Guillaume Haeringer Ph.D. Université Louis Pasteur, 2000.
Fields: Game Theory, Microeconomics.
Bettina Klaus Ph.D. Universiteit Maastricht, 2000.
Fields: Game Theory, Social Choice, Public
Economy.
Flip Klijn Ph.D. Tilburg University, 2000.
Fields: Game Theory, Matching.
Inés Moreno de Barreda M.A. Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 2001.
Fields: Game Theory, Social Choice, Social
Networks.
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Rosella Nicolini Ph.D. Université catholique de Louvain, 2000.
Fields: Location Theory, Economic Geography.
Ludovic Renou Ph.D. European University Institute, 2003.
Fields: Game Theory, Contract Theory, Economics
Theory.
Alejandro Saporiti Ph.D. Universidad del Cema, 2003.
Fields: Economics of Policy, Social Choice, Game
Theory, Economics Theory.
Francesc Trillas Jané Ph.D. European University Institute, 2000.
Fields: Industrial Organization, Political Economics.
Raimundo Viejo Rubio M.A. Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, 2001.
II.3 Affiliated Faculty
Fields: General Equilibrium, Environmental
Economics.
Lionel Artige Ph.D. Université catholique de Louvain, 2004.
Fields: Growth, Regional Economics and Political
Institutions.
Josep Curtó Díaz M.A. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2001.
Fields: Dynamic Systems, Differential Equations.
Jenny de Freitas Fernandes M.A. Universidad Central de Venezuela, 1999.
Fields: Political Economics, Inequality and Public
Economics.
M. del Mar Gómez Pujalte M.A. Universitat de Barcelona, 1999.
Fields: Algebra, Geometry, Topology.
Rebeca Jiménez Rodríguez Ph.D. Universitat d’Alacant, 2003.
Fields: Econometrics, Macroeconometrics, Applied
Macroeconomics.
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Paul Levine Ph.D. University of Manchester, 1969.
Fields: Macroeconomics Policy, Growth, Trade and
Factor Mobility.
Martin Menner Ph.D. Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2005.
Fields: Monetary Theory, Macroeconomics,
Econometrics of Time Series.
Iñaki Permanyer Ugartemendía M.A. Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 1997.
Fields: Demography Analysis, Inequality Studies.
Clara Ponsatí Obiols Ph.D. University of Minnesota, 1987.
Field: Game Theory.
Jordi Pujolàs Boix M.A. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 1998.
Field: Arythmetic Geometry.
Inmaculada Rico Delgado M.A. Universidad de Huelva, 2002.
Field: Labor Economics.
Jordi Saperas Riera M.A. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 1999.
Fields: Geometry, Topology.
Xavier Vives Torrents Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, 1983.
II.4 Visiting Professors
Fields: Industrial Economics, Financial Economics.
Jaime Alonso Universidad de Vigo (Spain).
Period: July 2004.
Albert Banal University of Western Ontario, London (Canada).
Period: April-July 2004.
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Gustavo Bergantiños Universidad de Vigo (Spain).
Period: January 2003 and June 2003.
Radim Bohacek CERGE-EI, Charles University (Czech Republic).
Period: July 2003.
Stefano Comino Università degli Studi di Udine (Italy).
Period: January 2003.
Aris Daniilidis Université de Pau et de Pays de l’Adour (France).
Period: January-September 2003.
Irinel Dragan University of Texas at Arlington (United States).
Period: December 2003.
Bhaskar Dutta University of Warwick (United Kingdom).
Period: January-February 2004.
Joydepp Dutta Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (India).
Period: July 2003.
Lars Ehlers Université de Montréal (Canada).
Period: May 2003.
Mª Jesús Freire Universidad de Vigo (Spain).
Period: July 2004.
Ivan Ginchev Technical University Varna (Bulgaria).
Period: December 2003.
Mathew O. Jackson California Institute of Technology (United States).
Period: July 2003.
Christian Kjaer Aarhus University (Denmark).
Period: September-December 2003.
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Gerard Llobet CEMFI (Spain).
Period: August 2003.
Marisa Miraldo University of Cork (United Kingdom).
Period: January-June 2004.
Eiichi Miyagawa Columbia University (United States).
Period: April 2003.
Mónica Moreno Rocha Tufts University (United States).
Period: June 2003.
Alejandro Neme Universidad Nacional de San Luis (Argentina).
Period: February-July 2003 and May 2004.
Antonio Nicolò Università di Padova (Italy).
Period: February 2004.
Samuel Nitzan Bar-Ilan University (Israel).
Period: February-May 2004.
Harry Paarsch University of Iowa (United States).
Period: September 2004.
Nicolás Porteiro CORE-Université catholique de Louvain (Belgium).
Period: September-October 2003.
Nuria Quella University of Western Ontario, London (Canada).
Period: July-September 2004.
Silvio Rendón University of Western Ontario, London (Canada).
Period: July- September 2004.
Alex Rubinov University of Ballarat (Australia).
Period: June 2003.
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Alfred Schroyen Norwegian School of Economics and Business
Administration (Norway).
Period: September 2003-June 2004.
Suzanne Scotchmer University of California, Berkeley (United States).
Period: January 2003.
Antoine Soubeyran GREMAQ (France).
Period: February 2004.
Yves Sprumont Université de Montréal (Canada).
Period: September 2003-July 2004.
Marcos Vera University College London (United Kingdom).
Period: May 2003.
Robert Veszteg Universidad de Navarra (Spain).
Period: October 2004.
Reinhilde Veugelers Université catholique de Louvain (Belgium).
Period: April 2003 and July 2004.
David Wettstein Ben Gurion University of the Negev (Israel).
Period: May 2003 and September 2004.
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II.5 Administrative Staff
Departamental Administrative Staff
M. Paz Chivite Jiménez
Flora Fuentes García
Mario Jiménez Linde
M. Teresa Núñez Luque
David Ramos Campos
Administrative Staff of the PhD Program (IDEA)
Àngels López García
Sira Mora Ortiz
Mercè Vicente Holgado
Administrative Staff of CODE (Center for the Study of Organizations and
Economic Decisions)
Conxa Iglesias Hernández
Marta Ortega Lorenzo
Daniel Morales Vergel
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III. PUBLICATIONS
III.1 Articles in scientific journals
Miguel Ángel Ballester
"Extending an Order to the Power Set: The Leximax Criterion" (joint with J.R. de
Miguel), Social Choice and Welfare, Vol. 21, pp. 63-71, 2003.
"Set Comparisons in a General Domain: the Indirect Utility Criterion" (joint with J.R.
de Miguel and J. Nieto), Mathematical Social Sciences, Vol. 48, pp. 139-150, 2004.
"Some Remarks on Ranking Opportunity Sets and Arrow Impossibility Theorems:
Correspondence Results" (joint with J. Alcalde-Unzu), Journal of Economic Theory
(forthcoming).
Lluís Barbé Duran
"Francis Ysidro Edgeworth’s Catalan Grandfather", European Journal of the History of
Economic Thought, Vol. 11, pp. 295-307, 2004.
"Els orígens alturgellencs d’un economista famós: Francis Ysidro Edgeworth", Lo
Banyut, Vol. 17, pp. 1-16, 2004.
"La ‘semana vital’ de John Hicks", Cuadernos de Información Económica, Vol. 182,
pp. 149-158, 2004.
Salvador Barberà Sández
"On Coalition Formation: Durable Coalition Structures" (joint with A. Gerber),
Mathematical Social Sciences, Vol. 45, pp. 185-203, 2003.
"Choosing How to Choose: Self-Stable Majority Rules and Constitutions" (joint with
M. O. Jackson), The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 119, pp. 1011-1048, 2004.
"Voting by Committees under Constraints" (joint with J. Massó and A. Neme), Journal
of Economic Theory (forthcoming).
Carmen Beviá Baeza
"Implementation of the Walrasian Correspondences by Market Games" (joint with L.
Corchón and S. Wilkie), Review of Economic Design, Vol. 7, pp. 429-442, 2003.
Jordi Caballé Vilella
"Pay-as-you-go Social Security and the Distribution of Bequests" (joint with L. Fuster),
Review of Economic Studies, Vol. 70, pp. 541-567, 2003.
"Speculating Against an Overconfident Market" (joint with J. Sákovics), Journal of
Financial Markets, Vol. 6, pp. 199-225, 2003.
"Inflation, Tax Evasion, and the Distribution of Consumption" (joint with J. Panadés),
Journal of Macroeconomics, Vol. 26, pp. 567-595, 2004.
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"Consumption Externalities, Habit Formation, and Equilibrium Efficiency" (joint with J.
Alonso-Carrera and X. Raurich), Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Vol. 106, pp.
231-251, 2004.
"Growth, Habit Formation, and Catching-up with the Joneses" (joint with J. Alonso-
Carrera and X. Raurich), European Economic Review (forthcoming).
Antoni Calvó Armengol
"La Crema: A Case Study in Mutual Fire Insurance" (joint with A. Cabrales and M.O.
Jackson), Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 111, pp. 425-458, 2003.
"Stable and Efficient Bargaining Networks", Review of Economic Design, Vol. 7, pp.
411-428, 2003.
"A Decentralized Market with Trading Links", Mathematical Social Sciences, Vol. 45,
pp. 83-103, 2003.
"Does Crime Cause Unemployment? The Role of Social Networks" (joint with Y.
Zenou), Annales d'Economie et de Statistique, Vol. 71/72, pp. 173-188, 2003.
"The Effects of Social Networks on Employment and Inequality" (joint with M.O.
Jackson), American Economic Review, Vol. 94, pp. 426-454, 2004.
"Job Contact Networks", Journal of Economic Theory, Vol. 115, pp. 191-206, 2004.
"Social Networks and Crime Decisions: The Role of Social Structure in Facilitating
Delinquent Behavior" (joint with Y. Zenou), International Economic Review, Vol. 45,
pp. 939-958, 2004.
Marco Casari
"Decentralized Management of Common Property Resources: Experiments with a
Centuries-old Institution" (joint with C.R. Plott), Journal of Economic Behavior and
Organization, Vol. 51, pp. 217-247, 2003.
"Can Genetic Algorythms Explain Experimental Anomalies? An Application to
Common Property Resources", Computational Economics (forthcoming).
"Sequencing Lifeline Repairs After an Earthquake: An Economic Approach" (joint with
S.J. Wilkie), Journal of Regulatory Economics (forthcoming).
Pierre Courtois
"Une approche evolutionniste des negociations en presence de problèmes
environnementaux globaux" (joint with J.C. Pereau and T. Tazdait), Louvain Economic
Review (forthcoming).
Michael Creel
"Modified Hausman Tests for Inefficient Estimators", Applied Economics, Vol. 36, pp.
2373-2376, 2004.
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Joan Crespo Fernández
"Postnikov Pieces and B\Z/p-Homotopy Theory", (con N. Castellana y J. Scherer),
Transactions of the American Mathematical Society (de próxima aparición).
Danilo Guaitoli
"Moral Hazard and Non-Exclusive Contracts" (con A. Bisin), Rand Journal of
Economics (de próxima aparición).
Guillaume Haeringer
"Sur la coopération dans les jeux non coopératifs", Revue d’Economie Industrielle, Vol.
103, pp. 175-190, 2003.
"Equilibrium Binding Agreements", Journal of Economic Theory, Vol. 17, pp. 140-143,
2004.
Xavier Jarque Ribera
"Mediation: Incomplete Information Bargaining with Filtered Communication" (joint
with C. Ponsatí and J. Sákovics), Journal of Mathematical Economics, Vol. 39, pp. 803-
830, 2003.
Bettina Klaus
"Coalition Strategy-Proofness, Resource-Monotonicity, and Separability for Multiple
Assignment Problems" (joint with L. Ehlers), Social Choice and Welfare, Vol. 21, pp.
265-280, 2003.
"Probabilistic Assignments of Identical Indivisible Objets and Probabilistic Uniform
Rules" (joint with L. Ehlers), Review of Economic Design, Vol. 8, pp. 249-268, 2003.
"Resource Monotonicity for House Allocation Problems" (joint with L. Ehlers),
International Journal of Game Theory, Vol. 32, pp. 545-560, 2004.
Flip Klijn
"Weak Stability and a Bargaining Set for the Marriage Model" (joint with J. Massó),
Games and Economic Behavior, Vol. 42, pp. 91-100, 2003.
"On the Nucleolus of Neighbor Games" (joint with H. Hamers, T. Solymosi, S. Tijs and
D. Vermeulen), European Journal of Operational Research, Vol. 146, pp. 1-18, 2003.
"Neighbor Games and the Leximax Solution" (joint with D. Vermeulen, H. Hamers, T.
Solymosi, S. Tijs and J.P. Villar), Mathematical Methods of Operations Research, Vol.
58, pp. 191-208, 2003.
"Manipulation of Optimal Matchings via Predonation of Endowment" (joint with G.
Fiestras-Janeiro and E. Sánchez), Mathematical Social Sciences (forthcoming).
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Inés Macho Stadler
"Endogenous Formation of Partnerships with Moral Hazard" (joint with M.P. Espinosa),
Games and Economic Behavior, Vol. 44, pp. 183-194, 2003.
"Settlement in Tax Evasion Prosecution" (joint with D. Pérez-Castrillo), Economica
(forthcoming).
Xavier Martínez Giralt
"Preventive Health Care and Payment Systems" (joint with P.P. Barros), Topics in
Economic Analysis & Policy, Vol. 3, pp. 1-23, 2003.
"Negotiation Advantages of Professional Associations in Health Care" (joint with P.P.
Barros), International Journal of Health Care Finance and Economics (forthcoming).
Juan Enrique Martínez Legaz
"(*,s)-Dualities" (joint with J. Getán and I. Singer), Journal of Mathematical Sciences,
Vol. 115, pp. 2506-2541, 2003.
"The Indirect Function of an NTU Game" (joint with A. Meseguer), Journal of
Mathematical Sciences, Vol. 116, pp. 3253-3265, 2003.
"New Formulas for the Legendre-Fenchel Transform" (joint with J.-B. Hiriart-Urruty),
Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, Vol. 288, pp. 544-555, 2003.
"Monotonic Analysis Over Cones: I" (joint with J. Dutta and A. Rubinov),
Optimization, Vol. 53, pp. 129-140, 2004.
"Monotonic Analysis over Cones: II" (joint with J. Dutta and A. Rubinov),
Optimization, Vol. 53, pp. 529-547, 2004.
Jordi Massó Carreras
"Weak Stability and a Bargaining Set for the Marriage Model" (joint with F. Klijn),
Games and Economic Behavior, Vol. 42, pp. 91-100, 2003.
"A Maximal Domain of Preferences for Strategy-proof, Efficient, and Simple Rules in
the Division Problem" (joint with A. Neme), Social Choice and Welfare, Vol. 23, pp.
187-206, 2004.
"An Algorythm to Compute the Full Set of Many-to-many Stable Matchings" (joint
with R. Martínez, A. Neme and J. Oviedo), Mathematical Social Sciences, Vol. 47, pp.
187-210, 2004.
"Stability and Voting by Committees with Exit" (joint with D. Berga, G. Bergantiños
and A. Neme), Social Choice and Welfare, Vol. 29, pp. 229-247, 2004.
"On Group Strategy-proof Mechanisms for a Many-to-one Matching Model" (joint with
R. Martínez, A. Neme and J. Oviedo), International Journal of Game Theory, Vol. 33,
pp. 115-128, 2004.
"Voting by Committees under Constraints" (joint with S. Barberà and A. Neme),
Journal of Economic Theory (forthcoming).
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Rosella Nicolini
"On the Determinants of Regional Trade Flows", International Regional Science
Review, Vol. 26, pp. 447-465, 2003.
"Local Networks and Regional Development: Features and Perspectives", Environment
and Planning A, Vol. 35, pp. 341-360, 2003.
"La R&D au niveau des entreprises nelges: une approche spatiale" (joint with L.
Bertinelli), Brussels Economic Review-Cahiers Economiques de Bruxelles, Vol. 45, pp.
187-216, 2003.
Francesc Obiols Homs
"Incomplete Unemployment Insurance and Aggregate Fluctuations", Review of
Economic Dynamics, Vol. 6, pp. 602-636, 2003.
"Preferencias no separables y ciclos económicos reales", Gaceta de Economía, Vol. 16,
pp. 89-109, 2003.
"Transitional Dynamics and the Distribution of Assets", Economic Theory
(forthcoming).
Pau Olivella Cunill
"Shifting Public-Health-Sector Waiting Lists to the Private Sector", European Journal
of Political Economy, Vol. 19, pp. 103-132, 2003.
"Cost Reducing Strategies" (joint with M. Pastor-Gosálvez), Investigaciones
Económicas, Vol. 27, pp. 5-37, 2003.
"Waiting Lists and Patient Selection" (joint with P.P. Barros), Journal of Economics
and Management Strategy (forthcoming).
Judith Panadés Martí
"Tax Evasion and Relative Tax Contribution", Public Finance Review, Vol. 32, pp. 183-
195, 2004.
"Inflation, Tax Evasion, and the Distribution on Consumption" (joint with J. Caballé),
Journal of Macroeconomics, Vol. 26, pp. 567-595, 2004.
David Pérez Castrillo
"Bidding for the Surplus: Realizing Efficient Outcomes in Economic Environments"
(joint with S. Mutuswami and D. Wettstein), Games and Economic Behaviour, Vol. 48,
pp. 111-123, 2004.
"Auditing Cost Overrun Claims" (joint with N. Readinger), Journal of Economic
Behaviour and Organization, Vol. 54, pp. 267-285, 2004.
"Settlement in Tax Evasion Prosecution" (joint with I. Macho-Stadler), Economica, Vol.
71, pp. 349-368, 2004.
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"A Selling Mechanism" (joint with M. Sotomayor), Revista Brasileira de Economia
(forthcoming).
"An Ordinal Shapley Value for Economics Environments" (joint with D. Wettstein),
Journal of Economic Theory (forthcoming).
"Forming Efficient Networks" (joint with D. Wettstein), Economics Letters
(forthcoming).
"Settlement in Tax Evasion Prosecution" (joint with I. Macho-Stadler), Economia
(forthcoming).
Howard Petith
"The Possibility of Continuous Growth with Exhaustible Resources: Unknowingly an
Agreement Has Been Reached, But it May not Be Correct", Natural Resource
Modeling, Vol. 6, pp. 161-173, 2003.
"Marx’s Analysis of the Falling Rate of Profit in the First Version of Volume III of
Capital", Review of Political Economy (forthcoming).
Josep Lluís Raymond Bara
"Redistributive Effects of Subsidies to Urban Public Transport in Spain" (joint with J.
Asensio and A. Matas), Transport Reviews, Vol. 23, pp. 433-452, 2003.
"Petrol Expenditure and Redistributive Effects of its Taxation in Spain" (joint with J.
Asensio and A. Matas), Transportation Research, Part A, pp. 49-69, 2003.
"Diferencias salariales, señalización y capital humano: Una aplicación a la economía
mexicana" (joint with F. Barceinas), El Trimestre Económico, Vol. 277, pp. 167-194,
2003.
"¿Es rentable para el sector público subsidiar la educación en México?" (joint with F.
Barceinas), Investigación Económica, Vol. 244, pp. 141-163, 2003.
Ludovic Renou
"A Didactic Example of Linear (Multidimensional) Screening Contracts", International
Journal of Business and Economics, Vol.2, pp 245-261, 2003.
"Existence and Monotonicity of Optimal Debt Contracts in CSV Models", Economics
Bulletin, Vol. 7, pp. 1-9, 2003.
"Debt Contracts with Ex-Ante and Ex-Post Asymmetric Information: an Example"
(joint with G. Carlier), Economic Theory (forthcoming).
"A Costly State Verification Model with Diversity of Opinions" (joint with G. Carlier),
Economic Theory (forthcoming).
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Hugo Rodríguez Mendizábal
"La credibilidad del régimen cambiario, el miedo a la flotación y la amplitud óptima de
la banda" (joint with J. Rodríguez López), Información Comercial Española, Revista de
Economía, Vol. 814, pp. 123-130, 2004.
"The Behavior of Money Velocity in Low and High Inflation Countries", Journal of
Money, Credit and Banking (forthcoming).
"The Market for Funds in Europe: What Has Changed with the EMU?" (joint with G.
Pérez Quirós), Journal of Money, Credit and Banking (forthcoming).
Ferran Sancho Pifarré
"Evaluación de multiplicadores contables en el marco de una matriz de contabilidad
social regional" (joint with A. Cardenete), Investigaciones Regionales, Vol. 2, pp. 121-
139, 2003.
"An Applied General Equilibrium Model to Assess the Impact of National Tax Changes
on a Regional Economy" (joint with A. Cardenete), Review of Urban and Regional
Development Studies, Vol. 15, pp. 55-65, 2003.
"Energy Intensities and CO2 Emissions in Catalonia: A SAM Analysis", (joint with A.
Manresa), Journal of Employment, Environment and the Workforce, Vol. 1, pp. 91-106,
2004.
"Sensitivity of CGE Simulation Results to Competing SAM Updates" (joint with A.
Cardenete), The Review of Regional Studies, Vol. 34, pp. 37-56, 2004.
"Una estimación del coste marginal en bienestar del sistema impositivo español",
Hacienda Pública Española/Revista de Economía Pública, Vol. 169, pp. 117-132,
2004.
"Reverse Impact Assesment Using a Regional Social Accounting Matrix" (joint with A.
Cardenete), Environment and Planning A, Vol. 36, pp. 937-945, 2004.
Alejandro Saporiti
"Single-crossing, Strategic Voting and the Median Choice Rule" (joint with F. Tohmé),
Social Choice and Welfare (forthcoming).
Valeri Sorolla Amat
"Growth, Unemployment and Public Capital" (joint with X. Raurich), Spanish
Economic Review, Vol. 5, pp. 49-61, 2003.
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Francesc Trillas Jané
"Independence and Discretion in Telecommunications Regulation: Lessons from
Independent Central Banks" (joint with J. Stern), Utilities Policy, Vol. 11, pp. 191-201,
2003.
"L’OPA de Gas Natural sobre Iberdrola: sobre el mercat de control corporatiu en els
sectors regulars", Revista Econòmica de Catalunya, Vol. 47, pp. 13-23, 2003.
"The Structure of Corporate Ownership in Privatized Utilities", Investigaciones
Económicas, Vol. 28, pp. 257-284, 2004.
"Privatization, Corporate Control and Regulatory Reform: the Case of Telefónica" (joint
with G. Bel), Telecommunications Policy (forthcoming).
"Utility Price Regulation and Time Inconsistency: Comparisons with Monetary Policy"
(joint with P. Levine and J. Stern), Oxford Economics Papers (forthcoming).
Carlos Velasco Gómez
"Gaussian Semiparametric Estimation of Fractional Cointegration", Journal of Time
Series Analysis, Vol. 24, pp. 345-378, 2003.
"Nonparametric Frequency Domain Analysis of Non-Stationary Multivariate Time
Series", Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, Vol. 116, pp. 209-247, 2003.
"A Simple Test for Normality for Time Series" (joint with I.N. Lobato), Econometric
Theory, Vol. 20, pp. 661-679, 2004.
"Consistent Testing of Cointegration Relationships" (joint with F. Mármol),
Econometrica, Vol. 72, pp. 1809-1844, 2004.
"Residual Log-Periodogram Inference for Long-Run Relationships" (joint with U.
Hasller and F. Mármol), Journal of Econometrics (forthcoming).
"Sign Tests for Long Memory Time Series" (joint with M.A. Delgado), Journal of
Econometrics (forthcoming).
"Distribution Free Goodness-of-fit Tests for Linear Processes" (joint with M. Delgado
and J. Hidalgo), Annals of Statistics (forthcoming).
"Trimming and Tapering Semiparametric Estimates in Asymmetric Long Memory Time
Series" (joint with J. Arteche), Journal of Time Series Analysis (forthcoming).
"Generalized Spectral Tests for the Martingale Difference" (joint with J.C. Escanciano),
Journal of Econometrics (forthcoming).
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III.2 Articles published in books and book reviews
Miguel Ángel Ballester Oyarzún
"Bienestar" (joint with J.R. de Miguel), in Diez palabras clave en Economía, Ed. Verbo
Divino (forthcoming).
"Equidad" (joint with J. Alcalde-Unzu), in Diez palabras clave en Economía, Ed. Verbo
Divino (forthcoming).
Lluís Barbé Duran
"Historias de matematización y alienación de la Economía y los economistas", in E.
Fuentes Quintana, Ed.: Economía y Economistas Españoles, Vol. 8, Galaxia
Gutenberg/Círculo de Lectores (forthcoming).
Salvador Barberà Sández
Review of "Domain Conditions in Social Choice Theory de Wulf Gaertner", Journal of
Economics/Zeitschrift für Nationalökonomie, Vol. 79, pp. 104-107, 2003.
"Ranking Sets of Objects" (joint with W. Bossert and P. K. Pattanaik), in S. Barberà, P.
J. Hammond and C. Seidl, Eds.: Handbook of Utility Theory, Vol. 2, Kluwer Academic
Publishers (forthcoming).
"Arrow's Impossibility Theorem" in J. Segura, and C. Rodríguez Braun, Eds.: An
Eponymous Dictionary of Economics (A Guide to Laws and Theorems Named after
Economists), Chentelham, UK; Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar, 2004.
Jordi Caballé Vilella
"Transferencias intergeneracionales, altruismo y crecimiento económico", in J. Pérez-
Fernández, C. Sebastián, and P. Tedde de Lorca, Eds.: Estudios en homenaje a Luis
Ángel Rojo, Vol. I, Políticas, Mercados e Instituciones Económicas, Editorial
Complutense, Madrid, pp. 37-64, 2004.
Antoni Calvó Armengol
Comments on the book "Studies in Segregation and Desegregation", I. Schnell and W.
Ostendorf, Eds.: Urban Studies, Vol. 40, pp. 1380-1381, 2003.
Guillaume Haeringer
"Stable Hedonic Networks", in Heterogeneous Agents, Interactions and Economic
Performance (forthcoming).
Bettina Klaus
"Seeking Solutions for an Interstate Conflict over Water and Endangered Species: Platte
River Watershed" (joint with R.J. Supalla, O. Yeboah, J. Allen, V. Serveiss and R.J.F.
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Bruins), in Bruins and Heberling, Eds.: Economics and Ecological Risk Assessment:
Applications to Watershed Management, Mike Newman Series on Enviromental and
Ecological Risk Assessment, chapter 9, CRC Press (forthcoming).
Xavier Martínez Giralt
"Schmeidler’s Lemma", in J. Segura, C. Rodríguez Braun, Eds.: Eponimus Dictionary
of Economics (A Guide to Laws and Theorems Named after Economists), Cheltenham,
UK; Northampton, MA, USA, Edward Elgar, 2004.
"Sperner’s Lemma", in J. Segura, C. Rodríguez Braun, Eds.: Eponimus Dictionary of
Economics (A Guide to Laws and Theorems Named after Economists), Cheltenham,
UK; Northampton, MA, USA, Edward Elgar, 2004.
"Models of Negotiation in Health Care" (joint with P.P. Barros), in A. Jones, Ed.: Elgar
Companion to Health Economics (forthcoming).
Jordi Massó Carreras
Comments on the book "José Isidoro Morales, Precursor Ilustrado de la Teoría de la
Elección Social. Facsímil edition of Memoria Matemática sobre el Cálculo de la
Opinión en las Elecciones (1797) y Apéndice (1805)", by M. Martínez Panero and J.L.
García Lapresta, in La Gaceta de la Real Sociedad Matemática Española, Vol. 8, pp.
633-636, 2003.
Rosella Nicolini
Comments on the book "Theories of Endogenous Regional Growth: Lessons for
Regional Policies" (joint with L. Artige), edited by B. Johansson, C. Karlsson and R.R.
Stough, Journal of Regional Science, Vol. 43, pp. 403-406, 2003.
Ferran Sancho Pifarré
Comments on the book "Environmental Tax Reform and the Labour Market", by K.
Kratena, Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, 2002, in Economic Systems Research, Vol.
16, pp. 107-108, 2004.
Carlos Velasco
"Semiparametric Estimation of Long-Memory Models", in K. Jones Patterson, and T.C.
Mills, Eds.: Palgrave Handbook of Econometrics, Vol. 1, Econometric Theory,
Palgrave, MacMillan (forthcoming).
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III.3 Books
Salvador Barberà Sández
Handbook of Utility Theory, Vol. 2 (joint with P. J. Hammond and C. Seidl, Eds.),
Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2004.
Xavier Martínez Giralt
Organització Industrial, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Servei de Publicacions
(forthcoming).
Josep Lluís Raymond Bara
"Educación formal y demanda de cualificación de mano de obra en España. Una visión
de largo plazo" (joint with J. Oliver, Eds.), Centre d’Economia Industrial, Document 14,
2003.
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IV. OTHER ACTIVITIES
In addition to teaching and research, other professional activities by members of the
Unit of Economic Analysis include: visiting positions in other institutions, editorial
activities and organization of conferences and seminars.
IV.1 Visits to other institutions
Miguel Ángel Ballester Oyarzún
Universidad de Valladolid (Spain), March 2004.
Guillaume Haeringer
New York University (United States), April-May 2004.
Bettina Klaus
University of Bielefeld (Germany), September-October 2003.
Sabanci University (Turkey), November 2003.
University of Maastricht (Netherlands), November 2003.
Flip Klijn
Universidad de Vigo (Spain), February- March 2003.
Tilburg University (Netherlands), April 2003.
Inés Macho Stadler
Center for Economic Studies (CESifo), Munich (Alemania), February-March 2003.
CIREQ, Montreal (Canada), April-May 2004.
Xavier Martínez Giralt
Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Portugal), November 2004.
Juan Enrique Martínez Legaz
Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d’Aix-Marseille (GREQAM),
Aix-en-Provence (France), January 2003.
University of Ballarat, (Australia), August 2003.
Instituto de Matemática y Ciencias Afines (IMCA), Lima (Peru), October 2003.
Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour (France), January 2004.
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Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (India), January-February 2004.
Jordi Massó Carreras
Universitè de Montréal (Canada), January 2003 and January 2004.
Università di Padova (Italy), February 2003 and February 2004.
Universidad Nacional de San Luis (Argentina), September 2004.
Rosella Nicolini
Université catholique de Louvain (Belgium), June 2003.
David Pérez-Castrillo
Center for Economic Studies (CESifo), Munich (Germany), February-March 2003.
CIREQ, Montreal (Canada), April-May 2004.
Hugo Rodríguez Mendizábal
University of California, Davis (United States), January-July 2003.
Ferran Sancho Pifarré
University of California, Berkeley (United States), January 2003-July 2003.
Francesc Trillas Jané
University of Surrey (United Kingdom), August 2004.
IV. 2 Editorial activities
Lluís Barbé Duran
Member of the Advisory Board of Cuadernos de Economía, Revista of C.S.I.C.
Salvador Barberà Sández
Associated Editor of Social Choice and Welfare, Mathematical Social Sciences, the
Journal of Public Economic Theory, the Review of Economic Design and Games and
Economic Behavior.
Member of the Advisory Board of Theoria.
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Jordi Caballé Vilella
Co-editor of the Spanish Economic Review.
Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Macroeconomics and the Portuguese
Economic Journal.
Bettina Klaus
Associated Editor of the Journal of Agricultural & Food Industrial Organization.
Inés Macho Stadler
Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Economic Behaviour and
Organization.
Juan Enrique Martínez Legaz
Member of the Editorial Board of Optimization, the Journal of Convex Analysis, the
Journal of Global Optimization, the Journal of Systems Science and Complexity and
Cuadernos Aragoneses de Economía.
Associated Editor of Top.
Reviewer for Zentralblatt für Mathematik and Mathematical Reviews.
Jordi Massó Carreras
Associated Editor the Economics Bulletin and Social Choice and Welfare.
Reviewer for Mathematical Reviews.
David Pérez-Castrillo
Member of the Editorial Board of the Spanish Economic Review.
Co-director of Investigaciones Económicas.
Associated Editor of the International Game Theory Review and Investigaciones
Económicas.
Josep Lluis Raymond Bara
Member of the Editorial Board of Papeles de Economía Española.
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IV.3 Organization of conferences, seminars and collaboration in
scientific committees
Miguel Ángel Ballester Oyarzún
Member of the Organizing Committee of the "Workshop on Economic Decisions",
Pamplona (Spain), 2004.
Salvador Barberà Sández
President of the Social Choice and Welfare Society.
Member of the Council of Social Choice and Welfare Society.
Member of the Council of the Game Theory Society.
Member of the Patronato de la Fundación Urrutia Elejalde.
Member of the Scientific Committee of the "Fourth Conference on Public Economics
Theory" (PET03), Duke (United States), June 2003.
Member of the Scientific Committee of the "Third Conference on Logic, Game Theory
and Social Choice 3" (LGS3), Certosa di Pontignano, Siena (Italy), September 2003.
Member of the Organizing Committee of the VII Summer School of the Fundación
Urrutia Elejalde on "The Design and Consequences of Constitutions (X)", July 2004.
Member of the Organizing Committee of "The 2004 Workshop on Economic
Decisions", Universidad Pública de Navarra, Pamplona (Spain), June 2004.
Carmen Beviá Baeza
Co-organizer of the "Workshop on Social Choice and Welfare in Economics", Málaga
(Spain), July 2003.
Organizer of the "9 th Coalition Theory Workshop", Barcelona (Spain), January 2004.
Member of the Scientific Committee of the "Society for Economic Design Conference"
(SED Conference), Mallorca (Spain), June 2004.
Jordi Caballé Vilella
Member of the Scientific Committee of the "European Economic Association
Congress", Stockholm (Sweden), August 2003.
Member ot the Scientific Committee of the "Meeting of the Association of Southern
European Economic Theorists" (ASSET), Barcelona (Spain), November 2004.
Antoni Calvó Armengol
Co-organizer of the "Summer School on Social and Network Interactions in
Economics" (joint with Matthew O. Jackson and A. Dubois), Fundación Urrutia and
Universidad del País Vasco (Spain), July 2003.
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Xavier Jarque Ribera
Organizer of the special session "Dynamical Systems", in the "First Meeting between
the American and the Spanish Mathematical Society", Sevilla (Spain), June 2003.
Inés Macho-Stadler
Member of the Program Committee of the "58 th European Meeting of the Econometric
Society" (ESEM), Stockholm (Sweden), August 2003.
Member of the Program Committee of the "XXVIII Simposio de Análisis Económico",
Sevilla (Spain), December 2003.
Member of the Scientific Committee of the "31th Annual Conference of the European
Association for Industrial Economics" (EARIE), Berlin (Germany), 2004.
Organizer of the "Jamboree ENTER Network", Barcelona (Spain).
Member of the Scientific Committee of the "XXIX Simposio de Análisis Económico",
Pamplona (Spain), December 2004.
Member of the Scientific Committee of the "ASSET Meeting", Barcelona (Spain),
November 2004.
Juan Enrique Martínez Legaz
Member of the International Scientific Committee of the "Working Group on
Generalized Convexity".
Member of the Scientific Committee of the "Seminario Internacional de Optimización y
Áreas Afines", Lima (Peru), October 2003.
Member of the International Advisory Committee of the "Sixth International
Conference of the Association of Asia-Pacific Operational Research Societies within
IFORS", New Delhi (India), December 2003.
Member of the International Advisory Committee and Organizer of the "VI Workshop
on Optimization-Games-Networks and Applications", Aix-en-Provence (France),
December 2003.
Member of the Committee Program of the "12 th French-German-Spanish Conference on
Optimization", Avignon (France), September 2004.
Jordi Massó Carreras
Member of the Program Committee of the "XXVIII Simposio de Análisis Económico",
Sevilla (Spain), December 2003.
Member of the Committee Program of the "7th Internacional Meeting on Social Choice
and Welfare", Osaka (Japan).
Member of the Scientific Committee of the "XXIX Simposio de Análisis Económico",
Pamplona (Spain), December 2004.
Member of the Scientific Committee of the "ASSET Meeting", Barcelona (Spain),
November 2004.
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Rosella Nicolini
Organizer of the "Microeconomics Workshops", Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona,
(Spain), course 2002-2003.
Pau Olivella Cunill
Referee for the "World Congress of the International Health Economics Association",
San Francisco (United States), June 2003.
Member of the Scientific Committee of the "Internacional Health Economics
Association World Meeting", Barcelona (Spain).
Member ot the Scientific Committee of the "Meeting of the Association of Southern
European Economic Theorists" (ASSET), Barcelona (Spain), November 2004.
David Pérez Castrillo
Coorganizer of the "XXIII Annual Meeting of the ASSET", Barcelona (Spain), 2004.
Member of the Scientific Committee of the "XXIX Simposio de Análisis Económico",
Pamplona (Spain), December 2004.
Member of the Committee Program of the "59th European Meeting of the Econometric
Society", Madrid (Spain), 2004.
Member of Scientific Committee of the "VI Spanish Meeting on Game Theory and
Practice", Elche (Spain), 2004.
Hugo Rodríguez Mendizábal
Organizer of the "Macroeconomics Workshops", Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
(Spain), courses 2001-2002 and 2002-2003.
Member of the Scientific Committee of the "III Workshop on International Economics",
Universidad de Málaga (Spain), November 2003.
Member of the Scientific Committee of the "IV Workshop on International Economics",
Universidad de Málaga (Spain), 2003.
Member of the Scientific Committee of the "ASSET Annual Conference", Universitat
Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona (Spain), 2004.
Francesc Trillas Jané
Organizer of the “Barcelona Workshop on Industrial and Public Economics”, Institut
d’Economia de Barcelona (Spain), April 2003.
Member of the Academic Committee of the conference “Gas y Electricidad:
Reguladores nacionales para un mercado internacional”, Institut d’Economia de
Barcelona (Spain), September 2004.
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Carlos Velasco Gómez
Member of the Scientific Committee of the "The Econometric Society European
Meeting", Madrid (Spain), 2004.
Xavier Vilà Carnicero
Member of the Scientific Committee of the "Third International Workshop on
Computational Intelligence in Economics and Finance (CIEF)", North Carolina (United
States), 2003.
Member of the Scientific Committee of the "ASSET Annual Conference", Universitat
Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona (Spain), 2004.
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V. DOCTORAL PROGRAM
V. 1 International Ph.D. in Economic Analysis (IDEA)
The Unit of Economic Analysis organizes the International Doctorate in Economic
Analysis (IDEA), a Graduate Program for the degrees of M.A. and Ph.D. in Economics.
The teaching program of IDEA covers all the main fields of economics and the students
who complete the program will be prepared for any career in the academic, public, or
private sectors.
The aim of IDEA is to produce first class researchers in a stimulating environment
attractive to students and professors at the international level. In the period 2003-2004
we have awarded 23 Ph.D. titles.
IDEA is part of a European network of Doctoral programs (ENTER). Other members of
the network are: University College London (England), CentER of the Tilburg
University (Netherlands), University of Social Sciences, Toulouse (France), University
of Mannheim (Germany), the Free University of Bruxelles (Belgium) and the
Stockholm Univesity (Sweden).
Further information on the IDEA program is available at the web page:
http://idea.uab.es/, or contacting Sra. Mercè Vicente, Programa IDEA, Departament
d’Economia i d’Història Econòmica, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193
Bellaterra, Barcelona. Telephone 93 5811359
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V.2 Publications by Ph.D. students
Nadia Burani
"Coalition Formation Games with Separable Preferences", Mathematical Social
Sciences, Vol. 45, pp. 27-52, 2003.
Ugur Akgun
"Mergers with Supply Functions", Journal of Industrial Economics, Vol. 52, pp. 535-
546, 2004.
Danilo Coelho
"Maximin Choice of Voting Rules for Committees", Economics of Governance
(forthcoming).
Konstatin Kholodilin
"US Composite Economic Indicator with Nonlinear Dynamics and the Data Subject to
Structural Breaks", Applied Economic Letters, Vol. 10, pp. 363-372, 2003.
Pilar Socorro
"Mergers and the Importance of Fitting Well", Economics Letters, Vol. 82, pp. 269-274,
2004.
"Optimal Technology Policy Under Asymmetric Information in a Research Joint
Venture", Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization (forthcoming).
V.3 Placement positions of the students gratuated during 2003-04
ESADE (Spain)
Europe Economics, London (United Kingdom)
Harvard Business School (United States)
Instituto de Pesquisa Economica Aplicada (Brazil)
MERIT, Maastricht (Netherlands)
Pontificia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
RBB Economics London (United Kingdom)
Universidad de Oviedo (Spain)
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (Spain)
Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain)
Universidad de Guanajuato (Mexico)
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Universidad de Murcia (Spain)
Universidad de Navarra (Spain)
Universidad de Oviedo (Spain)
Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Spain)
Universitat d’Alacant (Spain)
Université catholique de Louvain (Belgium)
University of Edinburgh (United Kingdom)
University of Western Ontario, London (Canada)
Wellington Management, Boston (United States)
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VI. SEMINARS
Apart from organizing national and international conferences (see section IV.3 above),
the Unit organizes, jointly with the IAE, the series of weekly "Bellaterra seminars" as
well as several thematic workshops within the Doctoral Program. The list of seminars
can be found below. The list of workshops can be obtained from
http://selene.uab.es/_cs_u_fonaments/ingles/wp.html
2003
9 January Ignacio Palacios-Huerta (Brown University)
"The Measurement of Intellectual Influence" (joint with O.Volij)
16 January Suzanne Scothmer (University of California, Berkeley)
"The Political Economy of Intellectual Property Treaties"
23 January Per Baltzer Overgaard (University of Aarhus)
"Buy-Out Prices in Online Auctions: Multi-Unit Demand"
27 February William Thomson (Rochester University)
"Consistent Rules for the Adjudication of Conflicting Claims"
6 March Lutz Kilian (University of Michigan)
"The Central Banker as a Risk Manager: Quantifying and
Forecasing Inflation Risks" (joint with S. Manganelli)
13 March Harry Paarsch (University of Iowa)
"An Empirical Model of Multi-Unit, Sequential, Oral, Ascendingprice
Auction"
20 March Joseph E. Harrington (Johns Hopkins University)
"Cartel Pricing Dynamics in the Presence of an Antitrust
Authority"
27 March Martin Osborne (Toronto University)
"Party Formation in Collective Decision-making" (joint with R.
Tourky)
3 April Patrick Rey (Université de Toulouse)
"Transferable Control"
10 April José Manuel Campa (IESE)
"Differences in the Exchange Rate Passthrough in the Euro Area"
24 April Eiichi Miyagawa (Columbia University)
"Fair Play Equilibria in Normal Form Games" (joint with R.
Nagahisa and K. Suga)
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6 May Sergiu Hart (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
"Adaptive Dynamics" (joint with A. Mas-Colell)
8 May Tatsuyoshi Saijo (Osaka University)
"Secure Implementation Experiments: Do Strategy-proof
Mechanisms Really Work" (joint with T.N. Cason, T. Sjostrom
and T.Yamato)
15 May Thomas Palfrey (California Institute of Technology)
"The Effect of Candidate Quality on Electoral Equilibrium: an
Experimental Study"
22 May Bernard Grofman (University of California, Irvine)
"Modeling Cabinet Coalition and Dissolution: From Riker (1962)
to Schofield (2000)"
29 May Karl Shell (Cornell University)
"Comparing Sunspot Equilibrium and Lottery Equilibrium
Allocations: The Finite Case" (joint with R. Garrat and T.Keister)
5 June Luigi Pistaferri (Stanford University)
"Wage Risk, Employment Risk, and Precautionary Saving"
12 June Roberto Chang (Rutgers University)
"Financial Crises and Political Crises"
19 June Deborah Minehart (University of Maryland)
"Vertical Merger and Specific Investments: a Tale of the Second
Best" (joint with R. Kranton)
26 June Jacob Goeree (CREED, University of Amsterdam)
"Social Learning with Private Common Values"
9 October Yves Sprumont (Université de Montreal-UAB)
"On the Demand Responsiveness in Cost Sharing"
16 October Diego Comín (New York University)
"Medium Term Business Cycles"
23 October Sergei Severinov (Duke University)
"Does a Monopoly Need to Exclude" (joint with R. Deneckere)
30 October Melvyn Coles (IAE)
"Equilibrium Wage-Tenure Contracts with Heterogeneus Firms"
(joint with K.Burdett)
6 November Samuel Bentolila (CEMFI)
"Social Contacts and Occupational Choice" (joint with C.
Michelacci and J. Suárez)
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13 November Ramon Casadesus (IESE)
"Dynamic Mixes Duopoly: A Model Motivated by Linux vs.
Windows"
20 November Francesco Squintani (University of Rochester)
"Electoral Competition with Privately Informed"
27 November Sandro Brusco (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid-SUNY Stony
Brook)
"Merger Mechanisms"
4 December Itzhak Gilboa (Tel Aviv University and Yale University)
"Evidence and Belief"
2004
9 January Guy Lacroix (Université Laval-IAE)
"Tax Evasion and Social Interactions: An Experimental
Approach"
15 January Fred Schroyen (Norwegian School of Economics)
"An Alternative Way to Model Merit Good Arguments"
19 February Amrita Dhillon (Warwick University)
"Scoring Rule Voting Games and Dominace Solvability" (joint
with L. Buenrostro)
26 February Roger Myerson (Chicago University)
"Federalism and Incentives for Success of Democracy"
4 March Nicola Pavoni (University College London)
"Optimal Welfare-to-Work Plans"
11 March Efe Ok (New York University)
"A General Theory of Time Preferences"
18 March Alejandro Manelli (Arizona State University)
"Please Do Not Circulate: Multidimensional Mechanism Design:
Revenue Maximization and the Multiple-Good Monopoly"
25 March Yves Zenou (The Research Institute of Industrial Economics)
"The Dynamics of Cultural and Statistical Discrimination"
1 April Steffen Huck (University College London)
"Imitation, Theory and Experimental Evidence"
15 April Jean Pierre Benoit (New York University-UPF)
"Information Revelation in Auctions"
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22 April Joel Saphiro (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
"Conflicts of Interest, Information Provision and Competition in
Banking"
29 April Gabriel Pérez Quirós (Banco Central Europeo)
"Are European Business Cycles Close Enough to be just One?"
6 May Shmuel Nitzan (Bar-Ilan University)
"Context-Based Choice"
13 May Xavier Mateos Planas (University of Southampton)
"Demographics and the Politics os Social Security without
Commitmment"
20 May Antoin Murphy (Trinity College Dublin)
"Law and Turgot: The Importance of Money"
27 May John Hamilton (University of Florida)
"Private Information, Coasian Bargaining and the Second Welfare
Theorem"
3 June Silvio Rendón (University of Western Ontario)
"Job Creation and Investment in Imperfect Capital and Labor
Markets"
4 June József Sákovics (University of Edimburgh)
"Contractual Remedies to the Holdup Problem: A Dynamic
Perspective"
10 June Dirk Bergemann (Yale University)
"Robust Implementation: The Role of Large Type Spaces" (joint
with S. Morris)
17 June Pere Gomis (University of Miami)
"The Seasonality of Banking Failures During the Late"
30 September Miquel Faig (University of Toronto)
"Money and Banking in an Economy with Villages"
5 October Roldan Fryer (Harvard University-IAE)
"On the Measurement of Segregation"
21 October Garance Genicot (Georgetown University)
"Informal Insurance in Social Networks" (joint with D.Ray and
F.Bloch)
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28 October Dries Vermeulen (University of Maastricht)
"Equilibrium Plans in Constrained Environments"
4 November Gerard Duménil (Cepremap-Ens)
"Trends in Capital Ownership and Income: Pension Funds in the
Neoliberal Compromise"
11 November Kfir Eliaz (New York University)
"Contracting with Diversely Naïve Agents"
18 November Diego Moreno (Tel Aviv University and Yale University)
"The Efficiency of Centralized and Decentralized Markets for
Lemons"
25 November Paul Bergin (University of California, Davis)
"Tradability, Productivity and Understanding International
Economics Integration"
2 December Leandro Arozamena (Universidad Torcuato Di Tella)
"The Effect of Corruption on Bidding Behavior in First-Price
Auctions" (joint with F. Weinschelbaum)
9 December Andrew Postlewaite (University of Pennsylvania)
"Pricing in Matching Markets"
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