EDUCATION
PH.D. IN ECONOMICS, Universidad de Alicante, 1997. Advisor: Luis C. Corchón.
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
PROFESSOR of Economics (Catedrático de Universidad), Departamento de Teoría e Historia Económica, Universidad de Málaga, 2014-present.
PREVIOUS POSITIONS
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR of Economics (Profesor Titular de Universidad), Departamento de Teoría e Historia Económica, Universidad de Málaga, 2001-2014.
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
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, USA, 2018-19 (September 18-February 19), Visiting Scholar, Department of Government.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, USA, 2012 (September-December), Visiting Scholar, Department of Economics.
UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER, USA, 2009 (September-October), Department of Economics.
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 INTERESTS
Game Theory, Mechanism Design, Public Economy, Political Economy.
PUBLICATIONS
Journals
"Eliciting the deserving winner in the presence of enemies" (2025), forthcoming in Social Choice and Welfare, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00355-025-01600-2.
"Nash implementation of supermajority rules" (2024), International Journal of Game Theory, 53, 811-825.
"Implementing optimal scholarship assignments via backward induction" (2023), Mathemathical Social Sciences, 125, 1-10.
"Evaluation and strategic manipulation" (2023), Journal of Mathematical Economics, 106, Article Number 102828.
"Implementation in dominant strategies of quota rules to choose one candidate" (2022), Economics Letters, 216, Article Number 110557.
"Using supermajority rules to aggregate judgments of possibly biased experts" (2021), Economics Letters, 207, Article Number 110013.
“Aggregating experts’ opinions to select the winner of a competition” (2020), International Journal of Game Theory, 49, 833-849.
"Using sub-majoritarian rules to select the winner of a competition" (2020), Economics Letters, 190, Article Number 109068.
"Choosing the winner of a competition using natural mechanisms: Conditions based on the jury" (2019), Mathematical Social Sciences, 98, 26-38.
"Subgame perfect implementation of the deserving winner of a competition with natural mechanisms" (2016), Mathematical Social Sciences, 83, 44-57.
"Closed primaries versus top-two primaries" (2016) (with M.S. Puy and R. Martínez), Public Choice, 167 (1), 21-35.
"Picking the winners" (2013), International Journal of Game Theory, 42, 845-865.
"Issue convergence or issue divergence in a political campaign?" (2013) (with M.S. Puy), Public Choice, 155 (3), 355-371.
"Deciding whether a law is constitutional, interpretable, or unconstitutional" (2012) (with R. Martinez, B. Moreno, and M.S. Puy), SERIEs: Journal of the Spanish Economic Association, 3, 1-14.
"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 (in Spanish)
"Descripción de los procesos de primarias en Estados Unidos (2013) (with M.S. Puy), Cuadernos Económicos de ICE, 85, 65-79.
Books
“Ejercicios de Econometría Empresarial” (1993) (with T. Pérez and S. Relloso), McGraw-Hill - Madrid.
RESEARCH PROJECTS
2024-2028 "Collective Decisions, Voting, and Mechanisms," SPANISH MINISTRY OF SCIENCE, INNOVATION, AND UNIVERSITIES, PID2023-147391NB-I00 (Principal Researcher joint with Ricardo Martínez).
2023-2025 "Spanish Network of Microeconomic Theory", SPANISH MINISTRY OF SCIENCE AND INNOVATION, RED2022-134935-T (Network coordinator). Network University of Málaga, Public University of Navarra, University of Vigo, University of Girona, National University of Distance Education, Pablo Olavide University.
2021-2024 "Mechanisms, Collective decisions, and Public Policies", SPANISH MINISTRY OF SCIENCE AND INNOVATION, PID2020-114309GB-I00 (Principal Researcher joint with Ricardo Martínez).
2018-2020 "Choice Rules, Mechanisms, and Political Decisions", SPANISH MINISTRY OF ECONOMY, INDUSTRY, AND COMPETITIVENESS, ECO2017-86245P (Principal Researcher joint with Socorro Puy).
2015-2016 "Markets, Organizations, Mechanisms, and Agents", SPANISH MINISTRY OF ECONOMY AND COMPETITIVENESS, ECO2014-57673-REDT (Principal Researcher). Network University of Málaga, University of Granada, Carlos III University, University of Girona, and Pablo Olavide University.
2015-2017 "Social Welfare, Election Rules, and Political Decisions", SPANISH MINISTRY OF ECONOMY AND COMPETITIVENESS, ECO2014-53767P (Principal Researcher joint with Socorro Puy).
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 “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
"8th Spain-Japan Meeting on Economic Theory" (co-organizer with B. Moreno and M.S. Puy), Ronda (Spain), November 3-4, 2024.
"Workshop on Collective Decisions and Economic Design" (co-organizer with C. Beviá, B. Moreno, J. Moreno-Ternero, and M.S. Puy), Alicante (Spain), June 26-28, 2024.
"VIII Workshop on Social Decisions” (co-organizer with R. Martínez, B. Moreno, J. Moreno-Ternero and M.S. Puy), Málaga (Spain), January 25-26, 2013.
“VII Workshop on Social Decisions” (co-organizer with R. Martínez, B. Moreno, J. Moreno-Ternero and M.S. Puy), Málaga (Spain), November 25-26, 2011.
“VI Workshop on Social Decisions” (co-organizer with R. Martínez, 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
XXI Encuentro Red Española de Elección Social, Madrid (Spain), 2024
8th Spain-Japan Meeting on Economic Theory, Ronda (Spain), 2024.
XLVIII annual conference of the Italian Association for Mathematics Applied to Social and Economic Sciences (AMASES), Ischia (Italy), 2024.
Workshop on Collective Decisions and Economic Design, Alicante (Spain), 2024.
II Workshop on Mechanism Design and Welfare Economics, Málaga (Spain), 2024.
48th Symposium of the Spanish Economic Association (SAEe 2023), Salamanca (Spain), 2023.
7th Spain-Japan Meeting on Economic Theory, Kyoto and Tokyo (Japan), 2023.
22nd Annual Conference Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory (SAET), Paris (France), 2023.
Workshop on Collective Decisions: Current Trends, Granada (Spain), 2023.
Workshop on Mechanism Design and Welfare Economics, Málaga (Spain), 2022.
21st Annual Conference Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory (SAET), Canberra (Australia), 2022.
12th Conference on Economic Design, Padova (Italy), 2022.
4th Spain-Japan Meeting on Economic Theory, online conference, 2020.
Workshop on Economic Decisions, Málaga (Spain), 2019.
Workshop on Strategic Interactions: Markets and Organizations, Cambridge (USA), 2019.
14th International Meeting of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare, Seoul (South Korea), 2018.
13th European Meeting on Game Theory (SING13), Paris (France), 2017.
13th International Meeting of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare, Lund (Sweden), 2016.
IDGP'2015 Workshop (Institutions, Decisions and Governmental Practices: Theory, Simulations and Applications), Barcelona (Spain), 2015.
Annual Meeting of the Association of Southern European Economic Theorists (ASSET), Granada (Spain), 2015.
12th International Meeting of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare, Boston (USA), 2014.
Workshop on Games in Markets, Organizations, and Political Economy, Madrid (Spain), 2014.
Annual Meeting of the Association of Southern European Economic Theorists (ASSET), Bilbao (Spain), 2013.
Public Economic Theory 13, Lisbon (Portugal), 2013.
Barcelona GSE Summer Forum, Dynamic Decisions, Barcelona (Spain), 2013.
VIII Workshop on Social Decisions, Málaga (Spain), 2013.
31st. Arne Ryse Simposium, Málaga (Spain), 2012.
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
Brown University, Durham University Business School, Universidad de Alicante, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, University of Rochester, Universidad de Vigo, Università degli Studi di Padova, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Okonomisk Institute Kobenhavns Universitet, Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix Namur.
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY
Associate Editor
Journal of Mathematical Economics (2020-)
Referee for Journals
Econometrica, Economics Bulleting, Economic Inquiry, Economics Letters, Economic Theory, Games and Economic Behavior, Group Decision and Negotiation, Investigaciones Económicas, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Mathematical Economics, Journal of Public Economic Theory, Mathematical Social Sciences, Party Politics, Public Choice, Review of Economic Design, Review of Economic Studies, Social Choice and Welfare, Spanish Economic Review, The Manchester School.
Scientific Committees
Member of the Scientific Committee of the Economic Analysis Simposium (Spanish Economic Association): 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2022, 2023.
Member of the Scientific Committee of the Annual Meeting of the Association of Southern European Economic Theorists (ASSET): 2015.
Administrative Posts
Chairman of the Department of Economic Theory and Economic History, Universidad de Málaga (2004-2008).