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, Economic Growth in the Master of Development and Cooperation, 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.