Selected publications by fields

The contributions selected are grouped into seven different fields of research:  (A) Social Indicators; (B) Welfare economics; (C) Decision theory and allocation problems; (D) Equilibrium and efficiency; (E) Input-output analysis; and (F) Mathematical Economics. 

(A)        SOCIAL INDICATORS 

1.     Dealing with Categorical Data in a Multidimensional Context. The Multidimensional Balanced Worth, Social Science Research, vol. 26, Article 102561, 2021 (with C. Herrero). 

2.     The Inclusive Green Economy index of progress, Applied Energy, 2020 (with C. Herrero, J. Pineda & E. Zambrano). Vol. 279, article 115691. 

3.     A synthetic indicator on the impact of COVID-19 on the community’s health,  PLOS ONE, 15 (9), 2020: e0238970 (with C. Herrero).  

4.     The Balanced Worth: A procedure to evaluate performance in terms of ordered attributes, Social Indicators Research, vol. 140, pp. 1279-1300, 2018 (with C. Herrero).

5.     The Herrero-Villar Approach to Citation Impact, Journal of Informetrics, vol. 11, pp. 625-640, 2017  (in col. with P. Albarrán, C. Herrero & J. Ruiz-Castillo).

6.     Analysis of Group Performance with Categorical Data when Agents are Heterogeneous: The Evaluation of Scholastic Performance in the OECD through PISA, Economics of Education Review, vol. 40, pp. 140-151, 2014  (in col. with C. Herrero and I. Méndez).

7.     On the Comparison of Group Performance with Categorical Data, PLoS ONE, 8(12): e84784, 2013 (with C. Herrero).

(B)        WELFARE ECONOMICS

1.  Welfare Povery Measurement, Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, forthcoming.

2. Opportunity advantage between income distributions, The Journal of Economic Inequality, vol. 19, pp. 785-799, 2021 (with C. Herrero).

3. The cost of unemployment from a social welfare approach: the case of Spain and its regions, Social Indicators Research, vol. 150, pp. 955-976, 2020 (with S. de la Rica y L. Gorjón).

4. Population structure and the Human Development Index, Social Indicators Research, vol. 141, pp. 731-763, 2019 (with C. Herrero and R. Martínez).

5. Human Development and Poverty: Theoretical Approaches, in C. D’Ambrosio (Ed), Handbook of Research on Economic and Social Well-being, Edward Elgar, 2018, pp. 104-125 (with S. Seth). 

6. Human Development and Poverty: Empirical Findings, in C. D’Ambrosio (Ed), Handbook of Research on Economic and Social Well-being, Edward Elgar, 2018, pp. 126-152 (with S. Seth).

7. Lectures on Inequality, Poverty and Welfare, Springer-Verlag, 2017.

8. A Newer Human Development Index, Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, vol. 13, pp. 247-268, 2012 (with C. Herrero & R. Martínez).

9. Multidimensional Social Evaluation. An Application to the Measurement of Human Development, Review of Income and Wealth, vol. 56, pp. 483-497, 2010 (with C. Herrero y R. Martínez).

10. On the Welfare Evaluation of Income and Opportunity, Contributions to Theoretical Economics, vol. 5, issue 1, 2005.

(C)         DECISION THEORY AND ALLOCATION PROBLEMS 

1.   The Precedence function: A numerical evaluation method for multicriteria ranking problems, Economic Theory Bulletin, forthcoming.  

2.      Group decisions from individual rankings: The Borda-Condorcet rule, European Journal of Operational Research, vol. 291, pp. 757-765, 2021 (with. C. Herrero).

2.     The Rights-Egalitarian Solution for NTU Sharing Problems, International Journal of Game Theory, vol. 39, pp. 137-150, 2010 (with C. Herrero).

3.     The TAL-Family of Rules for Bankruptcy Problems, Social Choice and Welfare, vol. 27, pp. 231-249, 2006 (with J. Moreno-Ternero).

4.     On the Relative Equitability of Some Taxation Rules, Journal of Public Economic Theory, vol. 8, pp. 283-291, 2006 (with J.D. Moreno-Ternero).

5.     The Nash Rationing Problem, International Journal of Game Theory, vol. 33, pp 367-377, 2005 (with M. Mariotti).  

6.     The Talmud Rule and the Securement of Agents’ Awards, Mathematical Social Sciences, vol. 47, pp. 245-257, 2004 (with J. Moreno-Ternero).

7.     The Three Musketeers: Four Classical Solutions to Bankruptcy Problems, Mathematical Social Sciences, vol, 42, pp. 307-328, 2001 (with C. Herrero).

8.     Individual Rights and Collective Responsibility: The Rights-Egalitarian Solution, Mathematical Social Sciences, vol. 37, pp. 59-77, 1999 (with C. Herrero & M. Maschler).

(D)        EQUILIBRIUM AND EFFICIENCY

1.     On the Efficiency of Market Equilibrium in Production Economies, Journal of Global Optimization, vol. 20, pp. 375-389, 2001.

2.     Equilibrium and Efficiency in Production Economies, Berlin, Springer-Verlag, 2000.

3.     Efficiency with Nonconvexities: Extending the “Scandinavian Consensus” Approaches, The Scandinavian Journal of Economics, vol. 100, pp. 11-32, 1998 (with P. Hammond). 

4.     Equilibrium with Nonconvex Technologies, Economic Theory, vol. 4, pp. 629-638, 1994.

5. General Equilibrium in a Nonlinear Leontief Framework, The Manchester School, vol. 56, pp. 159-167, 1988 (with C. Herrero).

6.     On the Existence of Pareto Optimal Allocations when Individual Welfare Depends on Relative Consumption, Journal of Public Economics, vol. 36, pp. 387-397, 1988.

(E)        INPUT-OUTPUT ANALYSIS 

1.     The Generalized Linear Production Model: Solvability, Nonsubstitution and Productivity Measurement, Advances in Theoretical Economics, vol. 3, Issue 1, Article 1, 2003.  

2.     Linear Joint Production Models, Economic Theory, vol. 3, pp. 735-742, 1993 (with J.E. Peris).

3.     A Characterization of Economies with the Non-Substitution Property, Economics Letters, vol. 26, pp. 147-152, 1988 (with  C.Herrero).

4.     A Sensitivity Analysis in a Nonlinear Leontief Model, Journal of Economics, vol. 45, pp. 23-26, 1985 (with C. Herrero y T. Fujimoto).

5.     Technical Changes and their Effect on the Price Structure, Metroeconomica, vol. 35, pp. 123-127, 1983 (with C. Herrero y T. Fujimoto).

(F)         MATHEMATICAL ECONOMICS

1.     Equilibrium in Semimonotone Market Games, Optimization, vol. 47, pp. 235-250, 2000.

2.     Operator Theorems with Applications to Distributive Problems and Equilibrium Models, Berlin, Springer-Verlag, 1992. 

3.     Vector Mappings with Diagonal Images, Mathematical Social Sciences, vol. 22, pp. 57-67, 1991 (with C. Herrero).

4.     Nonlinear Operators in Euclidean Spaces: An Elementary “Users Guide” for Economists, Mathematical Social Sciences, vol. 19, pp. 281-292, 1990.

5.     Comparing Solutions of Equation Systems Involving Semipositive Operators, Portugaliae Mathematica, vol. 43, pp. 131-137, 1985-86 (with C. Herrero y T. Fujimoto).

6.     A Sensitivity Analysis for Linear Systems Involving M-Matrices and its Application to the Leontief Model, Linear Algebra and its Applications, vol. 64, pp. 85-91, 1985 (with C. Herrero y T. Fujimoto).