I am an Associate Professor (Profesor Titular) at the Departamento de Fundamentos del Análisis Económico of the Universidad de Murcia. I was previously at Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia (2012-2019), Universidad de Murcia (2008-2012) and at Universidad de Alicante (2004-2008), where I obtained my PhD. in 2012, under the supervision of Coralio Ballester. I am on the Editorial Board of PLoS ONE. I also edit the weekly newsletter NEP-NET from RePEc.
My research focuses in economics of social networks, experimental economics and education.
Contact: alfonso.rosa@um.es - (+34) 868 883728
Research
Publications
Group contest in a coopetitive setup: experimental evidence, with Hubert Janos Kiss and Vita Zhukova. Journal of Economic Interaction and Coordination (2023), vol. 18, 463-490. DOI: 10.1007/s11403-022-00373-6.
Preventing (panic) bank runs, with Hubert Janos Kiss and Ismael Rodriguez-Lara. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance (2022), vol. 35, 100697. DOI: 10.1016/j.jbef.2022.100697.
Who withdraws first? Line formation during bank runs, with Hubert Janos Kiss and Ismael Rodriguez-Lara. Journal of Banking and Finance (2022), vol. 140, 106491. DOI: 10.1016/j.jbankfin.2022.106491.
Connected Audiences in Digital Media Markets: The Dynamics of University Online Video Impact, with Germán López-Buenache, Angel Meseguer-Martinez and Alejandro Ros-Gálvez. European Research on Management and Business Economics (2022), vol. 28(1), 100176. DOI: 10.1016/j.iedeen.2021.100176.
Experimental bank runs, with Hubert Janos Kiss and Ismael Rodriguez-Lara. In: Handbook of Experimental Finance (Ed: Sascha Füllbrunn and Ernan Haruvy), Edward Elgar (2022). ISBN: 978-1-80037-232-0.
Why Open Access: Economics and Business researchers’ perspectives, with Carmen López and Pilar Flores. Publications (2021), vol. 9(3), 37. DOI: 10.3390/publications9030030.
Conditional cooperation in group contests, with Hubert Janos Kiss and Vita Zhukova. PLoS ONE (2020), 15(12): e0244152. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0244152
Why continue sharing: determinants of behavior in ridesharing services, with Rocío Arteaga-Sánchez, María Belda-Ruiz and Alejandro Ros-Gálvez. International Journal of Market Research (2020), vol.62 (6), pp. 725-742. DOI: 10.1177/1470785318805300. Media coverage: La Aventura del Saber , ORM.
Does response time predict withdrawal decisions? Lessons from a bank-run experiment, with Hubert Janos Kiss and Ismael Rodriguez-Lara. Review of Behavioral Finance (2020), vol.12 (3), pp. 200-222. DOI: 10.1108/RBF-07-2018-0070
Incentives to Open Access: Perspectives of Health Science researchers, with Carmen López and Pilar Flores. Publications (2020), vol. 8(2), 29. DOI: 10.3390/publications8020029.
Linking YouTube and university rankings: Research performance as predictor of online video impact, with Angel Meseguer-Martinez and Alejandro Ros-Gálvez. Telematics and Informatics (2019), vol. 43, October: 101264. DOI: 10.1016/j.tele.2019.101264
Online video impact of world class universities, with Angel Meseguer-Martinez, Alejandro Ros-Gálvez and Jose Antonio Catalan-Alarcon. Electronic Markets (2019), vol. 29, pp. 519-532. DOI: 10.1007/s12525-018-0315-4
Panic Bank Runs, with Hubert Janos Kiss and Ismael Rodriguez-Lara. Economics Letters (2018), vol. 162, pp. 146-149.
Overthrowing the Dictator: A Game-Theoretic Approach to Revolutions and Media, with Hubert Janos Kiss and Ismael Rodriguez-Lara. Social Choice and Welfare (2017), vol. 49 (2), pp. 329–355.
Satisfaction with online teaching videos: a quantitative approach, with Angel Meseguer-Martinez and Alejandro Ros-Gálvez. Innovations in Education and Teaching International (2017), Vol. 54, pp. 62-67, Iss. 1.
Think twice before running! Bank runs and cognitive abilities, with Hubert Janos Kiss and Ismael Rodriguez-Lara. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (2016), vol. 64, pp. 12-19.
Financial Crisis and Panic in the Laboratory, with Hubert Janos Kiss and Ismael Rodriguez-Lara. In Experimental Economics Volume II: Economic Applications (Ed.: Pablo Brañas-Garza and Antonio Cabrales), Palgrave MacMillan (2015). ISBN: 978-11-3753-815-4
Private provision of a public good: cooperation and altruism of internet forum users, with Alejandro Ros-Gálvez. International Journal of the Commons (2015), vol 9 (2), pp. 720-743.
Do Women Panic More Than Men? An Experimental Study of Financial Decisions, with Hubert Janos Kiss and Ismael Rodriguez-Lara (2014). Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, vol. 52, pp. 40-51, October.
Is Gender Bias a Cost of Failure Issue?, with Carmen Marín. Regional and Sectoral Economic Studies (2014), vol. 14(3), pp. 19-30.
Do Social Networks Prevent or Promote Bank Runs?, with Hubert Janos Kiss and Ismael Rodriguez-Lara. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (2014), 101, pp. 87-99.
On the Effects of Deposit Insurance and Observability on Bank Runs: An Experimental Study, with Hubert Janos Kiss and Ismael Rodriguez-Lara (2012). Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 44, vol. 8, pp. 1651-1665, December.
In Spanish and Hungarian
Aplicando la clase invertida en empresa, economía y turismo (Coordinator). Editorial Dykinson, 2018. ISBN: 978-84-9148-660-2. Co-author of two chapters:
Problemas de organización en gestión de equipos: Desalineación de objetivos en deporte base, with Antonio García-Vélez, Carmen Martínez-Franco, Alejandro Ros-Gálvez, Angel Meseguer-Martinez and Mario Rosa-García. Retos, 33, pp. 148-151, 2018.
La clase invertida mediante el uso de vídeos docentes como instrumentos de humanización del aula: Percepciones de los estudiantes, with Beatriz Peña Acuña and Alejandro Ros-Gálvez. In Humanizar la utilización de las TIC en Educación (Coord: Patricia Gutiérrez Rivas, Edoardo Tabasso and Amparo Fernández Delgado), Editorial Dykinson, 2016. ISBN: 978-84-9085-722-9.
Kognitív képességek és stratégiai bizonytalanság egy bankrohamkísérletben, with Hubert Janos Kiss and Ismael Rodriguez-Lara. Közgazdasági Szemle, LXII. évf., 2015. október (1030—1047. o.)
¿Inciden los aspectos técnicos de los vídeos docentes en la satisfacción de los estudiantes?, with Angel Meseguer-Martinez and Alejandro Ros-Gálvez. In Construyendo la nueva enseñanza superior (Coord: Mª Elena Del Valle Mejías y Graciela Padilla Castillo), McGraw Hill, 2014. ISBN: 978-84-4819-745-2.
Uso del vídeo docente para la clase invertida: evaluación, ventajas e inconvenientes, with Alejandro Ros-Gálvez. In Vectores de la pedagogía docente actual (Coord: Beatriz Peña Acuña), Asociación Cultural y Científica Iberoamericana, 2014. ISBN: 978-84-15705-28-4
Vídeos docentes de Microeconomía: análisis de su impacto externo e interno, with Alejandro Ros-Gálvez. Historia y Comunicación Social, 18, 75-84, 2013.
Estimación de la frecuencia de copia entre estudiantes usando una lista aleatorizada, with Francisco Martínez-Sánchez. @ tic. revista d'innovació educativa, 10, pp. 55-59, 2013.
Ongoing Research
Submitted and working papers
Student Reactions to AI-Replicant Professor in an Econ101 Teaching Video. MPRA Paper No. 120135. Submitted.
Credit cycles and labor market slacks: predictive evidence from Markov-switching models, with Germán López-Buenache and Mihály Borsi. MPRA Paper No. 100362. Submitted.
A test for Benford Law, with Francisco Martínez-Sánchez. Submitted.
Outerfactor and the indirect journal impact, with Coralio Ballester, MPRA Paper No. 29852.
Coordination structures, with Hubert Janos Kiss and Ismael Rodriguez-Lara, IVIE WP-AD 2012-12.
Also working on
Beliefs about own impact, with Raúl Baños-Navarro.
Multiple choice tests, with Carmen Marín.
Gambling motives, with Alejandro Ros-Gálvez and Vita Zhukova.
Runs in large experimental banks, with Hubert Janos Kiss and Ismael Rodriguez-Lara.
Experimental redemption fees and gates, with Hubert Janos Kiss and Lukas Voellmy.
Media
Writings:
Retiradas masivas y pánicos: Analizando el comportamiento de los depositantes durante las crisis financieras, with Hubert Janos Kiss and Ismael Rodriguez-Lara. In Nada es gratis, 20-04-2023.
Miért fogyott el a WC-papír a boltokból?, with Hubert Janos Kiss and Ismael Rodriguez-Lara. In Index.hu, 21-03-2020.
#ComproLoQueNecesito: Lo que los pánicos bancarios pueden enseñarnos sobre las compras compulsivas, with Hubert Janos Kiss and Ismael Rodriguez-Lara. In Nada es gratis, 18-03-2020.
Audio:
Pánico bancario. Interview in Las Píldoras del ICREF - Onda Regional de Murcia, 24-03-2023.
Corrida bancaria en el Silicon Valley Bank. Interview in Noticias (Matinal) - Onda Regional de Murcia, 15-03-2023.
Research profiles: Ideas - Google Scholar - Web of Science - ORCID - Scopus Researcher ID - SSRN - ResearchGate
Teaching
I teach Introduction to Economics in both the Bachelor's in Economics and the Bachelor's in Business, and Experimental Design in the PhD program.
I have done around 140 teaching videos on Microeconomics, a complete course in Spanish. They cumulate more than 3.000.000 views in Youtube. Videos with more than 100.000 views:
More information on my teaching here.