research

Publications

• Strategic advertising in the aftermath of a corporate scandal, with Javier Campos, Juan Luis Jiménez and Jordi Perdiguero, Manchester School, forthcoming.

• Natural disasters and tourism prosocial consumption, with Ubay Pérez-Granja and Juan Luis Jiménez, Tourism Economics, forthcoming.

• Reputation and perverse transparency under two concerns, with José A. García–Martínez, 2023, European Journal of Political Economy, 79: 102439. 

• The bureaucracy trap, with Francesco Feri and Miguel A. Meléndez-Jiménez, 2023, Economics Letters, 228: 111166.

• Institutional flexibility, political alternation and middle-of-the-road policies, with Francesco Feri and Miguel A. Meléndez-Jiménez, 2021, Journal of Public Economics, 204; 104532.

• Reputation and news suppression in the media industry, with José A. García–Martínez, 2020, Games and Economic Behavior, 123: 240-271.

• Women preferences for social spending: theory and evidence from Spanish political representatives, with Paula Penalva-Planelles and M. Socorro Puy, 2020, Hacienda Pública Española / Review of Public Economics, 4; 119-151. 

• The market for scoops: A dynamic approach, with José A. García–Martínez and Antonio Parravano, 2019, SERIEs: Journal of the Spanish Economic Association, 10: 175-206.

• Bounded confidence under preferential flip: A coupled dynamics of structural balance and opinions, with Miguel A. Meléndez-Jiménez and Antonio Parravano, 2016, PLOS ONE, 11(10): e0164323.  

• Information in elections: Do third inflexible candidates always promote truthful behavior?, 2016, SERIEs: Journal of the Spanish Economic Association, 7: 307-339. 

• Competition and uncertainty in a paper’s news desk, 2015, Journal of Economics, 116:77–93. 

• Screening and signaling in communication, 2012, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 114: 480-499. 

• Mass media in economics: Origins and subsequent contributions, 2011, Cuadernos de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales, 61: 89-101.  

• Media competition and information disclosure, 2009, Social Choice and Welfare, 33: 261-280.   

• Media bias and electoral competition, 2009, Investigaciones Económicas, 33: 211-231.  

• Voting in small networks with cross-pressure, with Miguel A. Meléndez-Jiménez, 2009, Spanish Economic Review, 11: 99-124.     

• Reinforcement vs. change: The political influence of the media, 2007, Public Choice, 131: 65-81. 

• Political competition when media create candidates’ charisma, 2006, Public Choice, 127: 353-374. 

Working papers  

• Garbling an evaluation to retain an advantage, with José A. García–Martínez, 2024. R&R European Economic Review

• Rejected: career concerns in the refereeing process, with José A. García–Martínez and Nektaria Glynia, 2024.

• An experiment on information transmission with interpersonal comparisons, with Adriana Alventosa and José A. García–Martínez, 2022.

• News content in pandemic times: An analysis of the Spanish case, with Juan Luis Jiménez and Carmen García-Galindo, 2020.

• Personal characteristics and effort choice, 2018

Popular writing & Media coverage of research (in Spanish)

• ¿Puede el autoconsumo eléctrico mitigar el problema de la inflación? El Español (de Málaga).

• Gasto turístico como consumo prosocial: Evidencia tras la erupción del volcán Cumbre Vieja (La Palma), Nada es gratis.

• Dieselgate: La estrategia publicitaria del grupo VW tras engañas a todo el mundo (literalmente), Nada es gratis.