Research

Selected publications

• “Cooperative and Competitive Reasoning: From Games to Revolutions”, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (forthcoming).
  
  

• “Chain Restaurant Calorie Posting Laws, Obesity and Consumer Welfare”, with Charles Courtemanche, David Frisvold, Michael K. Price and Mariétou Ouayogodé, Journal of the European Economic Association (2025).
  
  

• "Loss-framed incentives and employee (mis-)behavior", with Eszter Czibor, Danny Hsu, Susanne Neckerman and Burcu Subasi,  Management Science (2022).
  
  

• "Behavioral Economics in the Epidemiology of the Covid-19 Pandemic: Theory and Simulations",  with José María Abellán Perpiñán and Blas A. Marin-Lopez, Int. Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (2022).
  
  

• "Nudges and Pandemics: A Behavioral Law and Economics Analysis" [in Spanish], with José María Abellán Perpiñán and César Cierco Seira, Gaceta Sanitaria (2022).
  
  

• “Social Pressure in Networks Induces Public Good Provision”, Games (2021).
  
  

• "The Dozen Things Experimental Economists Should Do (More of)",  with Eszter Czibor and John List, Southern Economic Journal (2020).
  
  

• "Behavioral Economics to Improve Lifestyle Choices and to Reduce Risk Factors" [in Spanish], with José María Abellán Perpiñán, Gaceta Sanitaria (2019).

Policy publications

• Game Theory and Nudging for Good Governance [in English and Spanish], book section in Acicates (Nudges), Buen Gobierno y Buena Administración: Aportaciones de las ciencias conductuales, nudging y sectores público y privado, edited by Juli Ponce and published by Marcial Pons (2022).
  
  

• "Behavioral Economics of the Covid-19 Pandemic", [in English and Spanish] with José María Abellán Perpiñán, Ekonomiaz (2022).
  
  

• "Management of the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic: Insights From Behavioral Economics"  [in Spanish], with José María Abellán Perpiñán and Juan del Llano Señarís, book section in Economía de la salud (y más) de la COVID-19 (2020).

Working papers

(The most updated version of the following papers can be accessed through the links below -- if it is not linked yet, it is available upon request)

• "Present-Bias and the Value of Sophistication", with Subas Acharya,  Dmitrii Rachinskii, and Alejandro Rivera, revise and resubmit at Games and Economic Behavior
  
  

• "Are Economics and Psychology Operating on Different margins? Evidence from a Natural Experiment on Household Technology Diffusion", with Matilde Giaccherini, David H. Herberich, John A. List, Giovanni Ponti and Michael K. Price,  Revise & Resubmit Experimental Economics (please note the title change)
  
  

• “Nudging and Phishing: A Theory of Behavioral Welfare Economics”
  
  

• "Social Pressure Explains Ethical Voting: A Methodological Contribution to the Scientific Endeavor in the Social Sciences".
  
  

• “The Evolution of Self-Control in the Brain”.
  
  

• “False Consensus in Games of Incomplete Information” .
  
  

• "The Role of Constitutions in Democratization".

Research in progress  (no draft available yet)

• "Co-Evolution of Consciousness and Biases That Make Humans Behave Against Their Own Interest".
  
  

• “Nudging Present Bias out of Food Choice: A Field Experiment Measuring Its Welfare Effects”, with John List, Giovanni Ponti and Anya Samek.