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C.V. Pablo Amorós     


Departamento de Teoría e Historia Económica
Facultad de C.C. Económicas y Empresariales
Universidad de Málaga
Campus El Ejido
29013, Málaga
Spain
Tel. +34 952 13 1245
pag@uma.es


EDUCATION

PH.D. IN ECONOMICS, Universidad de Alicante, 1997.

M.A. IN ECONOMICS (Master en Gasto Público y Programación Económica) Instituto Estudios Fiscales, Ministerio de Economía y Hacienda, 1991.

B.A. IN ECONOMICS (Licenciado en C.C. Económicas, Especialidad Economía Cuantitativa), Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 1990.


CURRENT POSITION

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR of Economics (Profesor Titular de Universidad), Departamento de Teoría e Historia Económica, Universidad de Málaga, 2001-current.


PREVIOUS POSITIONS

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR (Profesor Asociado a Tiempo Completo), Departamento de Teoría e Historia Económica, Universidad de Málaga, 1998-2001.

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR (Profesor Asociado a Tiempo Completo), Departamento de Economía, Universidad de Granada, 1997-1998.

TEACHING ASSISTANT (Profesor Ayudante), Departamento de Fundamentos del Análisis Económico, Universidad de Alicante, 1994-1997.

TEACHING ASSISTANT (Profesor Ayudante), Departamento de Fundamentos del Análisis Económico II, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 1993-1994.


VISITING APPOINTMENTS

UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER, USA, 2009 (September-October)

CENTER FOR OPERATIONS RESEARCH AND ECONOMETRICS (CORE) (Université Catholique de Louvain), Belgium, 2007 (March-May).

UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA, Spain, 2002 (April-May).

UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA, Spain, 2001 (April-June).

ØKONOMISK INSTITUT, KØBENHAVNS UNIVERSITET, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1999 (October-December).

FACULTES UNIVERSITAIRES NOTRE-DAME DE LA PAIX, Namur, Belgium, 1998 (February-August).

UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA, USA, 1997 (July-August).

UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER, USA, 1995 (May-August).


RESEARCH AREAS

Game Theory, Mechanism Design, Public Economy, Political Economy.


PUBLICATIONS

Journals

"Issue convergence or issue divergence in a political campaign?" (2011) (with M.S. Puy), forthcoming in Public Choice, DOI 10.1007/s11127-011-9865-0

"Deciding whether a law is constituional, interpretable, or unconstitutional" (2011) (with R. Martinez, B. Moreno, and M.S. Puy), forthcoming in SERIEs: Journal of the Spanish Economic Association, DOI 10.1007/s13209-011-0039-6

"A natural mechanism to choose the deserving winner when the jury is made up of all contestants" (2011), Economics Letters, 110, 241-244.

“Indicators of Electoral Victory” (2010) (with M. S. Puy), Public Choice, 144 (1), 239-251.

“Unequivocal Majority and Maskin-monotonicity” (2009), Social Choice and Welfare, 33 (4), 521-532.

“Eliciting Optimal Rankings from Unfair Jurors” (2009),  Journal of Economic Theory, 144 (3), 1211-1226.

“Bargaining with Waning Commitments” (2006) (with B. Moreno), Economics Letters, 92 (3), 417-422.

“Nash Implementation and Uncertain Renegotiation” (2004), Games and Economic Behavior, 49 (2), 424-434.

“Single-Peaked Preferences with Several Commodities” (2002), Social Choice and Welfare, 19, 57-67.

“The Scholarship Assignment Problem” (2002) (with L. C. Corchón and B. Moreno), Games and Economic Behavior, 38 (1), 1-18.

“Implementation of Optimal Contracts under Adverse Selection” (2001) (with B. Moreno), Review of Economic Design, 6 (1), 41-61.

“Efficiency and Income Redistribution in the Single-Peaked Preferences Model with Several Commodities” (1999), Economics Letters, 63 (3), 341-349.

Other

“Picking the Winners”, Málaga Economic Theory Research Center Working Papers WP2010-6.

“Dialogue or Issue-Divergence in the Political Campaign?” (with M.S. Puy) CORE Discussion Papers 2007/84.

“A Model of Political Campaign Manipulation”, centrA Fundación Centro de Estudios Andaluces, E2004/20.

"Bargaining with Decreasing Commitments", Analistas Económicos de Andalucía, 08/2001.

Work in Progress

"Top Two Elections" (2011) (with R. Martinez and M.S. Puy).

“A model of Abstention” (2009) (with M.S. Puy).

“Implementation via natural mechanisms” (2009)

Books

“Ejercicios de Econometría Empresarial” (1993) (with T. Pérez and S. Relloso), McGraw-Hill - Madrid.

 

 

RESEARCH PROJECTS

2012-2014 "Markets, Collective Decisions, and Social Welfare", SPANISH MINISTRY OF SCIENCE AND INNOVATION ECO2011-29355 (Principal Researcher).

2011-2014 "Microeconomic Analysis of Public Institutions", RESEARCH EXCELLENCE, DEPARTMENT OF RESEARCH, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, JUNTA ANDALUCÍA SEJ5980 (Participant).

2010-2012 "Incentives and Public Decisions", RESEARCH EXCELLENCE, DEPARTMENT OF RESEARCH, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, JUNTA ANDALUCÍA SEJ4941 (Participant).

2009-2011 “Social Welfare and Collective Decision Making Processes”, SPANISH MINISTRY OF SCIENCE AND INNOVATION ECO2008-03674/ECON (Principal Researcher).

2007-2010 “The Effect of Public Decisions on Social Welfare”, RESEARCH EXCELLENCE, DEPARTMENT OF RESEARCH, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, JUNTA ANDALUCÍA SEJ1645 (Participant).

2005-2008 “Strategic Implications of Electoral Processes”, SPANISH MINISTRY OF EDUCATION SEJ2005-04805 (Principal Researcher). 

2005-2008 “Fairness and Efficiency: Design of allocation mechanisms with applications to Health and Education”, RESEARCH EXCELLENCE, DEPARTMENT OF RESEARCH, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, JUNTA ANDALUCÍA SEJ552 (Participant).

2005 Fundación “The Impact of Elections in Political Decision Making”, CENTRO ESTUDIOS ANDALUCES ECO-1 (Principal Researcher).

2002-2005 “Social Choice and Democratic Systems”, SPANISH MINISTRY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY SEC2002-01926 (Principal Resarcher).

2003-2005 “Welfare Theory”, DEPARTMENT OF RESEARCH, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, JUNTA ANDALUCÍA SEJ426 (Participant).

2002-2004 “Economic Policy and Political Strategies”, FUNDACIÓN RAMÓN ARECES (Participant).

2001-2003 “Microeconomic Foundations”, JUNTA DE ANDALUCÍA SEJ-194 (Participant)

2000-2002 SPANISH MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND CULTURE PB98-1408-C02-01.

1996- “Single-Peaked Preferences with Several Commodities”, INSTITUTO VALENCIANO DE ECONOMÍA (IVIE) (Participant).

1995- “Implementation of Firms’ Goals”, INSTITUTO VALENCIANO DE ECONOMÍA (IVIE) (Participant).

  

OTHER GRANTS AND SCHOLARSHIPS

2008-2009 “Spanish Network of Social Choice” (REES), SPANISH MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND SCIENCE (Acciones Complementarias) SEJ2007-30297-E/ECON (Participant).

2007- “Summer School on Political Economy and Social Choice”, SPANISH MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND SCIENCE (Acciones Complementarias) SEJ2006-28030-E (Principal Researcher).

2005-2007 “Spanish Network of Social Choice”, SPANISH MINISTRY OF EDUCATION (Acciones Complementarias) (Participant).

2003-2005 “Funds for the Organization of Three International Meetings on Social Choice and Welfare Economics”, FUNDACIÓN BBVA (Participant).

2003- “Funds for the Organization of the Workshop on Social Choice and Welfare Economics” SPANISH MINISTRY OF EDUCATION (Acciones Complementarias) (Principal Researcher).

1998- “Implementation of True Orderings”, MARIE CURIE RESEARCH TRAINING GRANT (EUROPEAN UNION), Nr. ERB4001GT971983, Facultes Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix de Namur, Groupe de Recherche en Economie du Bien-Etre.

1992-1993 Predoctoral Research Grant, Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

1991- Graduate Scholarship, INSTITUTO DE ESTUDIOS FISCALES, SPANISH TREASURE MINISTRY.


CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION

“VI Workshop on Social Decisions” (co-organizer with B. Moreno, J. Moreno-Ternero and M.S. Puy), Málaga (Spain), November 26-27, 2010.

“V Workshop on Social Decisions” (co-organizer with B. Moreno, J. Moreno-Ternero and M.S. Puy), Málaga (Spain), November 27-28, 2009.

“IV Workshop on Social Decisions” (co-organizer with B. Moreno, J. Moreno-Ternero and M.S. Puy), Málaga (Spain), November 28-29, 2008.

“III Workshop on Social Decisions” (co-organizer with B. Moreno, J. Moreno-Ternero and M.S. Puy), Málaga (Spain), November 22-23, 2007.

“Summer School on Political Economy and Social Choice” (co-organizer with B. Moreno, J. Moreno-Ternero and M.S. Puy), Málaga (Spain), June 9-12, 2007.

“II Workshop on Social Decisions” (co-organizer with B. Moreno, J. Moreno-Ternero and M.S. Puy), Málaga (Spain), December 18-19, 2006.

“Workshop on Social Decisions” (co-organizer with B. Moreno, J. Moreno-Ternero and M.S. Puy), Málaga (Spain), December 12-14, 2005.

“II Workshop on Social Choice and Welfare Economics” (co-organizer with C. Bevia, H. Llavador, B. Moreno and M.S. Puy). Fundación BBVA. Málaga (Spain). June 2-4, 2005.

“Workshop on Social Choice and Welfare Economics” (co-organizer with C. Bevia, H. Llavador, B. Moreno and M. S. Puy). Fundación BBVA. Málaga (Spain). May 29-31, 2003.


CONTRIBUTIONS TO CONFERENCES


65th European Meeting of the Econometric Society, Oslo (Norway), 2011.

7th Meeting on Game Theory, SING 7, Paris (France), 2011.

XXXV Simposio de Análisis Económico, Madrid (Spain), 2010.

VI Workshop on Social Decisions, Málaga (Spain), 2010.

Annual Meeting of the Association of the Southern European Economic Theorists (ASSET), Alicante (Spain), 2010.

10th International Meeting of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare, Moscow (Rusia), 2010.

V Workshop on Social Decisions, Málaga (Spain), 2009.

Workshop on Judgement Aggregation, Fundación Urrutia Elejalde, Barcelona (Spain), 2009.

IV Workshop on Social Decisions, Málaga (Spain), 2008.

Third World Congress of the Game Theory Society, Evanston, Illinois (USA), 2008.

9th International Meeting of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare, Montreal (Canada), 2008.

XXXII Simposio de Análisis Económico, Granada (Spain), 2007.

Spain, Netherlands, Italy Meeting on Game Theory, Madrid (Spain), 2007.

II Workshop on Advances in Collective Choice, Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium), 2007.

Summer School on Political Economy and Social Choice, Málaga (Spain), 2007.

III Workshop on Social Decisions, Málaga (Spain), 2007.

8th International Meeting of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare, Istanbul (Turkey), 2006.

Summer School on Economics Analysis of Heterogeneity in Social Organizations, Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium), 2006.

II Workshop on Social Decisions, Málaga (Spain), 2006.

XXXI Simposio de Análisis Económico, Oviedo (Spain), 2006.

Workshop on Social Decisions, Málaga (Spain), 2005.

7th International Meeting of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare, Osaka (Japan), 2004.

Workshop on Social Choice and Welfare Economics, Málaga (Spain), 2003.

XXVII Simposio de Análisis Económico, Salamanca (Spain), 2002.

6th International Meeting of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare, Pasadena (USA), 2002.

Conference on Economic Design (Society for Economic Design), Istanbul (Turkey), 2000.

5th International Meeting of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare, Alicante (Spain), 2000.

4th International Meeting of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare, Vancouver (Canada), 1998.

XXII Simposio de Análisis Económico, Barcelona (Spain), 1997.

Annual Meeting of the Association of the Southern European Economic Theorists (ASSET), Alicante (Spain), 1996.

Conference on the Axiomatics of Resource Allocation, Montreal (Canada), 1996.

Alibi Meeting, Alicante (Spain), 1995.


SEMINARS

Universidad de Alicante (2009), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (2009) University of Rochester (2009), Universidad de Vigo (2007), Università degli Studi di Padova (2007), Universidad Complutense de Madrid (2006, 2003), Universitat Pompeu Fabra (2002), Okonomisk Institute, Kobenhavns Universitet (1999), Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix, Namur (1998), Universidad de Alicante (1997).


TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Universidad de Málaga

Advanced Microeconomics I (2010-11, 2009-10, 2003-04, 2002-03, 2000-01).

Advanced Microeconomics II (2005-06).

Finance Theory (2007-08, 2008-09).

Game Theory (2003-04, 1999-2000).

Intermediate Macroeconomics (2004-05).

Intermediate Microeconomics (2005-06, 2004-05, 2008-09).

Introduction to Macroeconomics (2009-10, 2004-05, 1998-99).

Introduction to Microeconomics (2006-07, 2005-06, 2001-02, 1998-99).

New Topics in Economic Theory (1999-2000). 

Universidad Pablo de Olavide

Master en Economía y Evaluación del Bienestar (2009, 2010, 2011).

Universidad de Granada

Advanced Macroeconomics I (1997-98).

Intermediate Macroeconomics (1997-98). 

Universidad de Alicante

Advanced Economic Theory (1994-95).

Advanced Microeconomics I, II, and III (1995-96).

Introduction to Microeconomics (1996-97).

Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Econometrics (exercises) (1992-93).

General Equilibrium and Welfare Economics (1993-94).

 

OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY

Referee for Journals

Economics Bulleting, Games and Economic Behavior, Investigaciones Económicas, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Public Economic Theory, Mathematical Social Sciences, Public Choice, Review of Economic Design, Review of Economic Studies, Social Choice and Welfare, Spanish Economic Review.

Scientific Committees

Member of the Scientific Committee of the Economic Analysis Simposium (Spanish Economic Association): 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008. 

Administrative Posts

Chairman of the Department of Economic Theory and Economic History, Universidad de Málaga (2004-2008).

2 Sexenios de Investigación.