Departamento de Teoría e Historia Económica
Facultad C.C. Económicas y Empresariales
Universidad de Málaga 
Campus El Ejido 
29013 Málaga, Spain

Tel. +34 952 13 1252 
mps@uma.es

Areas of interest : Political Economy, Public Economy.

 

Publications: 

 

Political Economy (elections and campaigns):

Papers on the strategic issue-emphasis during the political campaigns:

• "Issue Convergence or Issue Divergence in a Political Campaign", forthcoming in Public Choice (joint with Pablo Amorós).
• "Indicator of Electoral Victory", Public Choice  144, (2010) : 239-251 (joint with Pablo Amoros)  

Papers on primary elections and the strategic entry of candidates:

• "Plurality Rule Works in Three Candidate Elections", Theory and Decision 67, (2009) :145-162 (joint with Bernardo Moreno). 
• "The Scoring Rules in an Endogenous Election", Social Choice and Welfare 25, (1) (2005) :115-126 (joint with Bernardo Moreno). 

A paper on political parties competing for a lobby:

• "Lobby Groups and the Financial Support of Election Campaigns", Journal of Public Economic Theory 2 (3) ,(2000): 319-348. 

• " Off-the-Peak Preferences and the Political Outcome" (2009), Málaga Economic Theory Research Center Working Paper WP 2009-9.  (joint with Francisco Martínez-Mora).

• "Skill Distributions and the Compatibility between Mobility and Redistribution", Regional Science and Urban Economics 37, (2007): 345-362. 
• "External Equilibrium in Mobility and Redistribution Economies", Journal of Public Economic Theory 5 (2), (2003): 363-379. 

 

Social Choice (Social choice functions and implementation)

Papers on implementation related to institutional design:

• "Stable Coalition-Governments: The Case of Three Political Parties", forthcoming in Social Choice and Welfare.
• "Deciding whether a law is constituitional, interpretable, or unconstitutional" , forthcoming in SERIEs: Journal of the Spanish Economic Association (joint with Pablo Amorós, Ricardo Martínez y Bernardo Moreno).

Papers on the cooperative production problem:

• "Existency and Nash Implementation of Efficient Sharing Rules for a Commonly Owned Technology", Social Choice and Welfare 19, (2002): 369-379 (joint with Luis C. Corchón). 
• "Individual Rationality and Voting in Cooperative Production", Economics Letters 59, (1998): 83-90 (joint with Luis C. Corchón).