PhD Students

Current Students

Abdelsayed, Nada (Expected July 2028)

Thesis title: The Impact of Climate Change on Agriculture and Labor Reallocation.

Advisors: Andre Groeger & Joan Llull

E-mail: nada.abdelsayed@aucegypt.edu

Araújo, Gabriela de Carvalho (Expected July 2026)

Thesis title: The Effect of Loan-to-Value Ratios on the Dynamic Behaviour of Economic Variables.

Advisors: Andre Groeger & Hugo Rodríguez Mendizábal

Website: https://araujo-gabriela.github.io/

Bel Arasa, Silvestre (Expected July 2029)

Thesis title: TBA

Advisors: David Andrés-Cerezo, Jordi Massó & Mar Reguant

E-mail: silvestrebear@gmail.com

Camats, Gerad (Expected July 2028)

Thesis title: Rethinking Policy Rate Setting: A Dynamic Nested Discrete Choice Model Approach

Advisors: Luca Gambetti & Hugo Rodríguez Mendizábal

Website: https://sites.google.com/view/gerardcamatspenella

Genç, Elif (Expected July 2029)

Thesis title: TBA

Advisors: Péter Bayer & Pau Milán

E-mail: elifg954@gmail.com

Krasowski, Kacper (Expected July 2029)

Thesis title: Essays on Social Media

Advisors: Andrea Gallice & Amedeo Piolatto

Website: https://kacperkrasowski.github.io/

Lleonart, Manuel (Expected July 2026)

Thesis title: Essays in Political Economy, Organizational Structure, and Online Platforms

Advisor: Pau Milán

Website: https://bse.eu/people/lleonart-manuel

Maher, Alannah (Expected July 2029)

Thesis title: TBA

Advisors: Andre Groeger & Pau Milán

E-mail: almaher@tcd.ie

McCallion, Alexander (Expected July 2029)

Thesis title: TBA

Advisors: David Andrés-Cerezo & Mar Reguant

E-mail: ahjmccallion@gmail.com

Oviedo Dávila, Nicolás (Expected July 2027)

Thesis title: Blended Finance: A Mechanism Design Approach

Advisors: Albert Banal-Estañol, Mikhail Drugov & David Pérez-Castrillo

Website: www.nicolasoviedod.com

Pantoja Rodríguez, Antonio (Expected July 2027)

Thesis title: Versioning in the Context of Vertical and Horizontal Differentiation

Advisors: Mikhail Drugov & David Pérez-Castrillo

Website: https://sites.google.com/view/antonio-pantoja-econ

Pérez Martel, Eva (Expected July 2026)

Thesis title: Internal Migration Choices across Households when Insuring Income Risk

Advisor: Pau Milán

E-mail: eva_pm2@hotmail.com

Rapone, Tancredi (Expected July 2027)

Thesis title: The Production of Knowledge and Culture: The US.

Advisors: Andre Groeger & Raül Santaeulàlia-Llopis

Website: https://tancrepone.github.io/

Salio, Alberto (Expected July 2029)

Thesis title: TBA

Advisors: Andre Groeger & Raül Santaeulàlia-Llopis

Website: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=OnSq7DkAAAAJ&hl=en

CODE Alumni

Margalef, Joan (October 2025)

Thesis title: Three Essays in Disaster Risk, Conflict and Tax Evasion.Advisors: Pau Milán & Hannes Mueller Placement: Research Associate at United Nations University, World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), Helsinki, Finland.Personal website: https://joanmargalef.github.io/

Zheng, Conghan (September 2025)

Thesis title: Essays on Migration and Child Well-Being.Advisors: Joan Llull & Hanna Wang Placement: on the Econ Job Market.Personal website: https://conghanzheng.github.io/

Hess, Jacob T. (July 2025)

Thesis title: Essays on Dynamics and Acquisitions.Advisors: Amedeo Piolatto & Raül Santaeulàlia-Llopis Placement: Research economist at Bank of Spain, Madrid, Spain.Personal website: https://hessjacob.github.io/

Testa, Alessandra (December 2024)

Thesis title: Essays in Applied Time Series Econometrics.Advisors: Fabio Bagliano & Luca GambettiPlacement: Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei, Milan, Italy. Personal website: https://www.phdpareto.carloalberto.org/alessandra-testa/

Boss, Konstantin (July 2024)

Thesis title: Essays in Applied Time Series Econometrics.Advisor: Luca GambettiPlacement: Joint Research Centre, European Commission, Ispra, Italy.Personal website: https://sites.google.com/view/konstantinboss/home

Mevsim, Defne (November 2023)

Thesis title: Essays on Social Behavior, Decision-Making, and Communication: Insights from Network Theory and Behavioral Economics.Advisor: Pau MilánPlacement: Data Scientist at Accenture, Barcelona, Spain.Personal website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/defne-mevsim/

Stockler, Gabriela (July 2023)

Thesis title: Networks in Finance: Asset Pricing, Market Structure and Information.Advisor: Pau MilánPlacement: Postdoctoral Fellow at New York University Abu Dhabi (2023-2024) and Assistant Professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain (afterwards).Personal website: https://gstockler.github.io/

Liu, Qianshuo (October 2022)

Thesis title: Essays on Industrial Organization. Advisor: Inés Macho-StadllerPlacement: Postdoctoral Fellow at ESADE Business School, Sant Cugat, Barcelona, Spain.Personal website: https://www.qianshuoliu.com/

Yasar, Faruk (October 2022)

Thesis title: Essays on Digital Economics. Advisor: David Pérez-CastrilloPlacement: Postdoctoral Fellow at ESADE, Barcelona, Spain.Personal website: https://sites.google.com/view/farukyasar/

Hutschenreiter, Dennis C. (May 2022)

Thesis title: Essays in Corporate Finance and Innovation. Advisor: David Pérez-CastrilloPlacement: Postdoctoral Fellow at Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH-Halle), Germany. Personal website: https://www.dennishutschenreiter.com/

Semedo Neves, José de Anchieta (July 2021)

Thesis title: Essays on Fiscal Policy: The Brazilian Case.Advisors: Albert Marcet & Francesc Obiols-Homs Placement: Secretaria do Tesouro Nacional (STN), Brazil.Website: https://www.gov.br/tesouronacional/en?set_language=en

Contreras Eitner, Alfredo (September 2021)

Thesis title: Essays in Rational Inattention and Market Microstructure. Advisor: Jordi Caballé Placement: Assistant Professor at CESA Business School, Bogotá, Colombia. Personal website: https://sites.google.com/view/alfredocontreras/home

Sun, Chaoran (July 2021)

Thesis title: Essays in Fair Allocation Rules. Advisor: David Pérez-Castrillo Placement: Shanghai University of International Business and Economics, China.Personal website: https://sites.google.com/site/chaoransun

Santini, Tommaso (June 2021)

Thesis title: Three Essays on Automation. Advisors: Jordi Caballé & Javier Fernández-BlancoPlacement: Postdoctoral Researcher at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain. Personal website: www.santinit.com

Sánchez Ibrahim, Jesús (December 2020)

Thesis title: Essays on Political Economy. Advisor: Jordi MassóPlacement: Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Economics, Universität Hamburg, Germany.Published papers from the thesis:
Personal website: https://sites.google.com/view/jesus-sanchez-ibrahim/

Okulicz, Danisz (September 2019)

Thesis title: Essays in Law and Economics. Advisor: David Pérez-CastrilloPlacement: Postdoctoral Fellow at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany.Published papers from the thesis:
Personal website: https://www.okulicz.eu/home

Safi, Shahir (September 2018)

Thesis title: Essays on Networks, Social Ties, and Labor Markets. Advisors: Salvador Barberà & Tomás Rodríguez-BarraquerPlacement: Postdoctoral Fellow at Aix-Marseille School of Economics, France, then Horizon Postdoctoral Fellow at Concordia University, Canada.Current employment: Assistant Professor of Economics at New Economic School (NES), Moscow, Russia. Published paper from the thesis:Safi, S. (2022) "Listen before you link: Optimal monitoring rules for communication networks," Games and Economic Behavior 133, 230-247.Personal website: https://sites.google.com/view/shahirsafi

Lara Córdova, Edgardo Amílcar (October 2017)

Thesis title: Essays on Behavioral Health Economics. Advisors: David Pérez-Castrillo & Susanna EstebanPlacement: Centro Mexicano de Estudios Económicos y Sociales, Mexico.Current employment: Published papers from the thesis:
Website: https://yvasa.com.mx/centro-mexicano-de-estudios-econ-micos-y-sociales-8753993772792470329/

Pino Alcalde, Adrián (October 2016)

Thesis title: Essays on the Spanish Macroeconomy.Advisors: Jordi Caballé & Nezih GunerPlacement: Junior Data Analist at Kernel Analytics, Barcelona, Spain.Current employments: Staff Data Scientist at Capchase, USA and Tech Advisor at Beder, Barcelona, Spain.Published papers from the thesis:
Website: https://www.capchase.com/aboutWebsite: https://www.beder.app/en/home

Rodríguez Camacho, Javier A. (July 2016)

Thesis title: Information Acquisition, Expertise, and Consumer Behavior in Markets with Informational Asymmetries. Advisor: David Pérez-Castrillo Placement: Assistant Professor at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia.Current employment: Assistant Professor at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia.Published papers from the thesis:
Personal website: https://jrodriguez6.weebly.com/vita.html

Oliveira, Tiago (June 2016)

Thesis title: Essays on the Economics of Renewable Energy Support Schemes.Advisors: Inés Macho-Stadler & Isabel SoaresPlacement: Researcher, Energy Economics at Center for Economics and Finance, Portugal.Current employment: EBRD, London, United Kingdom.Published papers from the thesis:
Personal website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/oliveiratfm/

Matveev, Dmitry (June 2015)

Thesis title: Essays in Monetary and Fiscal Policy.Advisor: Francesc Obiols-HomsPlacement: Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Economics, University of Mannheim, Germany.Current employment: Principal Researcher in the Monetary Policy and Financial Studies Division of the Canadian Economic Analysis Department at the Bank of Canada.Published papers from the thesis:
Personal website: https://sites.google.com/site/dimitrymatveev/

Gjorgjiev, Riste (July 2013)

Thesis title: On the Ranking of Social Alternatives. Advisor: Salvador Barberà Placement: Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Economics, Universitat de Girona, Spain.Current employment: Data Science Manager at Accenture Applied Intelligence, Barcelona, Spain.Published papers from the thesis:
Personal website: https://es.linkedin.com/in/ristegjorgjiev

Pujolas Fons, Pau Salvador (July 2013)

Thesis title: Essays on International Trade and Firm Dynamics.Advisor: Juan Carlos ConesaPlacement: Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada.Current employment: Associate Professor at the Department of Economics, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada.Published papers from the thesis:
Personal website: https://pau.pujolasfons.com/

Naval Navarro, Joaquín (June 2013)

Thesis title: Essays on Development Economics from a Macroeconomic Perspective.Advisor: Jordi CaballéPlacement: Postdoctoral Fellow at Universidad de Guanajuato, Mexico.Current employment: Associate Professor at the Department of Economics, Universitat de Girona, Spain.Published papers from the thesis:
Personal website: https://sites.google.com/view/jnaval/research?authuser=0

Gruber, Diego (March 2013)

Thesis title: Essays in International Macroeconomics and Trade. Advisor: Juan Carlos ConesaPlacement: Senior Analyst at Kernel Analytics, Barcelona, Spain.Current employment: Product Management Director at Boston Consulting Group (BCG), Barcelona, Spain.Published papers from the thesis:
Personal website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/diegogruber/

Grobovsek, Jan Kristijan (July 2012)

Thesis title: Composition Effects versus Intrinsic Variations in TFP Differences. Advisor: Juan Carlos ConesaPlacement: Visiting Professor at the Department of Economics and Political Science, Universität St. Gallen, Switzerland.Current employment: Associate Professor at School of Economics, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom. Published papers from the thesis:
Personal website: https://sites.google.com/site/jangrobovsek/

Alvim, Nuno (July 2012)

Thesis title: Topics in Industrial Organization.Advisor: David Pérez-Castrillo Placement: Principal at RBB Economics.Current employment: Principal at RBB Economics.Published papers from the thesis:
Website: https://streamly.video/expert/nuno-alvim

Xu, Jing (July 2012)

Thesis title: Essays on Environmental Economics: Environmental Compliance, Policy, and Governance.Advisor: Inés Macho-StadlerPlacement: Assistant Professor at Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, China.Current employment: Published papers from the thesis:
Website: https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/Jing-Xu-2138705203

Ayllón Aragón, Grisel (July 2012)

Thesis title: Three Essays on Weak Condorcet Winners, Public Bads, and Contrast Campaigns.Advisor: Jordi MassóPlacement: Assistant Professor at Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM), Mexico.Current employment: Assistant Professor at Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM), Mexico.Published papers from the thesis:Ayllón, G. (2013) "On weak Condorcet winners: existence and uniqueness," PERSPECTIVAS: Revista de Análisis de Economía, Comercio y Negocios Internacionales 7.Ayllón, G. & Caramuta, D. (2016) "Single-dipped preferences with strong group srategy-proofness and unanimity," Social Choice and Welfare 47, 245-264.Personal website: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Grisel-Ayllon

Pistollato, Michele (June 2012)

Thesis title: Essays on the Industrial Organization of Telecommunications.Advisor: David Pérez-Castrillo Placement: Charles River Associates, Boston, USA.Current employment: Charles River Associates, Boston, USA.Published papers from the thesis:
Personal website: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/michelepistollato/en

Freitas, António (July 2012)

Thesis title: Three Essays on Public Economics and Strategic Behavior.Advisor: Inés Macho-Stadler Placement: NERA Economic Consulting, Madrid, Spain.Current employment: Compass Lexecon, Madrid, Spain.Published paper from the thesis:Freitas. A. & Macho-Stadler, I. (2014) “On the joint production of research and training,” Portuguese Economic Journal 13, 71-94.Website: https://www.compasslexecon.com/professionals/antonio-freitas/

Caramuta, Diego (November 2011)

Thesis title: Three Essays on Strategy-proofness: Choosing Intervals and Locating Public Goods.Advisor: Salvador BarberàPlacement: Consultor Senior at Neo Metrics.Current employment: Head of Analytics at Banco Bci, Chile.Published papers from the thesis:
Website: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=M8Qxv6gAAAAJ&hl=es

Li, Nan (September 2011)

Thesis title: Essays on Judgment Aggregation and Argumentation. Advisor: Salvador BarberàPlacement: Assistant Professor at Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, China.Current employment: Published papers from the thesis:
Website:

Grechyna, Daryna (June 2011)

Thesis title: Essays on Macroeconomics Dynamics. Advisor: Francesc Obiols-HomsPlacement: Lecturer at University of Auckland, New Zealand.Current employment: Associate Professor at Universidad de Granada, Spain.Published papers from the thesis:
Personal website: https://sites.google.com/view/grechyna/home

Burlon, Lorenzo (June 2011)

Thesis title: Essays on Intersectoral Dynamics. Advisor: Jordi CaballéPlacement: Postdoctoral Fellow at Universitat de Barcelona, Spain.Current employment: Head of Bank Lending Conditions Section, Monetary Analysis Division, European Central Bank, Frankfurt, Germany.Published papers from the thesis:
Personal website: https://sites.google.com/view/lorenzoburlon

Majer, Tommaso (April 2011)

Thesis title: Essays in Industrial Organization.Advisor: Xavier Martínez-GiraltPlacement: Assistant Economist at Office of Fair Trading (OFT), London, United Kingdom.Current employment: Competition Expert at OECD, London, United Kingdom.Published papers from the thesis:
Website: https://www.fca.org.uk/insight/author/tommaso-majer

Guo, Bing (July 2010)

Thesis title: Essays on Economics of Organizations.Advisor: Inés Macho-Stadler Placement: Assistant Professor at the Department of Business Administration, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain.Current employment: Associate Professor at the Department of Business Administration, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain.Published papers from the thesis:
Website: https://business.uc3m.es/en/faculty/profesor/perfil/bing-guo

Jurecka, Magdalena (June 2010)

Thesis title: Essays on Bounded Rationality.Advisor: Juan Carlos ConesaPlacement: The Bank for International Settlements, Basel, Switzerland.Current employment: Published papers from the thesis:
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Kwiatkowski, Andrzej (April 2010)

Thesis title: Eassys on Microeconomics.Advisor: Carmen BeviáPlacement: Assistant Professor at Warsaw School of Economics, Poland.Current employment: Senior Lecturer at School of Business, University of Dundee, Scotland, United Kingdom.Published papers from the thesis:
Website: https://www.dundee.ac.uk/people/andrzej-kwiatkowski

Ata Nurcan, H. Nur (November 2009)

Thesis title: Self-Control and Debt: Theory and Evidence.Advisor: Jordi CaballéPlacement: Research Fellow at Lincoln College, Oxford, United Kingdom.Current employment: Senior Economist at Jacobs, Dubai, United Arab Emirates.Published papers from the thesis:
Personal website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nuratanurcan/?originalSubdomain=ae

Merlino, Luca Paolo (September 2009)

Thesis title: Essays on the Labor Market.Advisors: Antoni Calvó-Armengol & Jordi Massó Placement: Postdoctoral Fellow at ECARES, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.Current employment: Associate Professor at ECARES, Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.Published papers from the thesis:Merlino, L. (2012) "Discrimination, technology and unemployment," Labour Economics 19, 557-567.Galeotti, A. & Merlino, L. (2014) "Endogenous job contact networks," International Economic Review 55, 1201-1226.Merlino, L. (2016) "Efficient sorting in frictional labor markets with two-sided heterogeneity," Macroeconomic Dynamics 20, 95-119.Personal website: https://sites.google.com/site/lucamerlino/

Krznar, Ivo (September 2009)

Thesis title: Essays in International Business Cycles. Advisor: Juan Carlos ConesaPlacement: Lecturer at Zagreb School of Economics and Management, Zagreb, Republic of Croatia.Current employment: Deputy Division Chief at International Monetary Fund, Washington, DC, USA.Published papers from the thesis:
Website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ivo-krznar-928bb540/

Prokofieva, Irina (June 2009)

Thesis title: Three Essays on Regulation and Self-Regulation in Imperfectly Competitive Markets.Advisor: Pau Olivella Placement: Senior Researcher at Centre Tecnològic Forestal de Catalunya (CTFC), Barcelona, Spain. Current employment: Transformational Coach.Published papers from the thesis:
Personal website: https://irinaprokofieva.com/

Kinateder, Markus (September 2008)

Thesis title: Dynamic Strategic Interaction in Networks.Advisor: Jordi Massó Placement: Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics, Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain.Current employment: Associate Professor at the Department of Economics, Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain.Published paper from the thesis:Kinateder, M. (2013) "Delayed perfect monitoring in repeated games," International Journal of Game Theory 42, 283-294.Personal website: https://sites.google.com/site/markkinateder/home

Pousset, Joanna (September 2008)

Thesis title: Comparative and Targeted Advertising in Competitive Markets.Advisor: Pau Olivella Placement: Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Palma de Mallorca, Spain.Current employment: Associate Professor at Toulouse Business School, Toulouse, France.Published papers from the thesis:
Website: https://www.tbs-education.fr/professeur/pousset-joanna/

Franke, Jörg (September 2008)

Thesis title: Topics in Contest Theory and Experimental Evidence.Advisor: Carmen Beviá Placement: Assistant Professor at TU Dortmund University, Germany.Current employment: Associate Professor at the Department of Economics, University of Bath, United Kingdom.Published papers from the thesis:
Website: https://sites.google.com/site/joergfrankebuer/home

Pereira Tavares, Aida Isabel (September 2008)

Thesis title: Moral Hazard in Health Economics.Advisor: Pau Olivella Placement: Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal.Current employment: Associate Professor at Lisbon School of Economics and Management, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal.Published papers from the thesis:
Personal website: https://www.intechopen.com/profiles/196819

Lin, Liguo (June 2008)

Thesis title: Enforcement of Environmental Regulation in China.Advisor: David Pérez-Castrillo Placement: Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, China.Current employment: Published papers from the thesis:
Personal website: https://scholar.google.com.tw/citations?user=Ya61fdQAAAAJ&hl=zh-CN

Ilkiliç, Rahmi (December 2007)

Thesis title: Strategic Network Formation and Behavior on Networks.Advisor: Antoni Calvó-ArmengolPlacement: Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics, Maastricht University, The Netherlands.Current employment: Assistant Professor at Center for Applied Economics (CEA), Universidad de Chile, Santiago de Chile, Chile. Published papers from the thesis:
Personal website: https://sites.google.com/site/rahmiecon/home

Dmitriev, Alexandre (September 2007)

Thesis title: On Endogenous Market Incompleteness Cycles and Growth. Advisor: Jordi CaballéPlacement: Assistant Professor at University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.Current employment: Associate Professor at Business School, New Zealand.Published papers from the thesis:
Website: https://profiles.auckland.ac.nz/a-dmitriev

Medalho Pereira, Isabel Maria (September 2007)

Thesis title: Topics on the (Re)Organization of Knowledge.Advisor: Inés Macho-Stadler Placement: Researcher at Human Development Program, United Nations, New York, USA.Current employment: Assistant Professor at Center for Advanced Studies in Management and Economics, Universidade de Évora, Portugal.Published papers from the thesis:
Website: https://www.uevora.pt/en/people?id=35847

Alonso Pauli, Eduard (July 2007)

Thesis title: Essays on Corporate Governance and its Influence on Firm’s Strategy.Advisor: Inés Macho-Stadler Placement: Postdoctoral Fellow at Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Sevilla, Spain.Current employment: Associate Professor at the Department of Economics and Business, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Palma de Mallorca, Spain. Published papers from the thesis:
Website: https://sites.google.com/site/eduardalonso/home?authuser=0

Flores Fillol, Ricardo (June 2007)

Thesis title: Competition and Alliances in the Airline Industry.Advisor: Inés Macho-Stadler Placement: Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Reus, Tarragona, Spain. Current employment: Associate Professor at the Department of Economics, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Reus, Tarragona, Spain. Published papers from the thesis:Brueckner, J. K & Flores-Fillol, R. (2007). "Airline schedule competition," Review of Industrial Organization 30, 161-177.Flores-Fillol, R. & Moner-Colonques, R. (2007). "Strategic formation of airline alliances," Journal of Transport Economics and Policy 41, 427-449. Flores-Fillol, R. (2009). "Airline alliances: parallel or complementary?," Applied Economics Letters 16, 585-590.Website: http://gandalf.fcee.urv.es/professors/RicardoFlores/

de Martí Beltran, Joan Francesc (May 2007)

Thesis title: Essays on Networks in Economics:- Pairwise Influences and Communication Processes. Advisor: Antoni Calvó-ArmengolPlacement: Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics and Business, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain.Current employment: Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics and Business, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain.Published papers from the thesis:Calvó-Armengol, A. & De Martí, J. (2007) "Communication networks: Knowledge and decisions," American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings 97, 86-91.Calvó-Armengol, A. & De Martí, J. (2009) "Information gathering in organizations: Equilibrium, welfare and optimal network structure," Journal of the European Economic Association 7, 116-161.Website: http://www.econ.upf.edu/~demarti/

Vida, Péter (December 2006)

Thesis title: Long Pre-Play Communication in Games.Advisor: Antoni Calvó-ArmengolPlacement: Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics, University of Vienna, Austria.Current employment: Full Professor at the Department of Economics, CY Cergy Paris Université, Thema, Cergy-Pontoise, France.Published papers from the thesis:.Website: https://sites.google.com/site/vidapet/

Morales Piñero, Jesús E. (November 2006)

Thesis title: Essays on Macroeconomic Theory: Technology Adoption, the Informal Economy, and Monetary Policy.Advisor: Jordi Caballé & Andrés ErosaPlacement: Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics, Universidad de Navarra (Pamplona), Spain.Current employment: Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics, Universidad Sergio Arboleda, Bogotá, Colombia.Published papers from the thesis:.Personal website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jes%C3%BAs-morales-a6179a82/

Azacis, Helmuts (January 2006)

Thesis title: Essays on Implementation and Auctions.Advisor: Jordi Massó Placement: Lecturer at the Department of Economics, Cardiff Business School, United Kingdom.Current employment: Reader at the Department of Economics, Cardiff Business School, United Kingdom.Published papers from the thesis:Azacis, H. (2008) "Double implementation in a market for indivisible goods with a price constraint," Games and Economic Behavior 62, 140-154.Azacis, H. & Burguet, R. (2008) "Incumbency and entry in license auctions: the Anglo-Dutch auction meets another simple alternative," The International Journal of Industrial Organization 26, 730-745.Website: https://profiles.cardiff.ac.uk/staff/azacish

López-Pérez, Raúl (November 2005)

Thesis title: Emotions, Norms and Games. Advisors: Jordi Brandts & Clara Ponsatí Placement: Associate Professor at the Department of Economic Analysis, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain.Current employment: Research Fellow at Instituto de Políticas y Bienes Públicos, (CSIC), Madrid, Spain.Published papers from the thesis:López-Pérez, R. (2008) "Aversion to norm-breaking: A model," Games and Economic Behavior 64, 237-267. López-Pérez, R. (2009) "Followers and leaders: reciprocity, social norms and group behavior," The Journal of Socio-Economics 38, 557-567. López-Pérez, R. (2010) "Guilt and shame: An axiomatic analysis," Theory and Decision 69, 569-586. Personal website: https://sites.google.com/view/raul-lopez-perez/home?authuser=0

Pais, Joana (July 2005)

Thesis title: Incentives in Random Matching Markets. Advisor: Jordi Massó Placement: Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics, ISEG, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal.Current employment: Full Professor at the Department of Economics, ISEG, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal.Published papers from the thesis:Pais, J. (2008) "Incentives in decentralized random matching markets," Games and Economic Behavior 64, 632-649.Pais, J. (2008) "Random matching in the college admissions problem," Economic Theory 35, 99-116.Pais, J. & Pinter, A. (2008) "School choice and information: an experimental study on matching mechanisms," Games and Economic Behavior 64, 303-328.Website: https://www.iseg.ulisboa.pt/aquila/homepage/jpais

Rata, Cristina (July 2005)

Thesis title: Voting and Information Aggregation Theories and Experiments.Advisor: Salvador BarberàPlacement: Lecturer at the Department of Economics, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain.Current employment: Head of Data & Analytics at Zurich Insurance Company Ltd, Barcelona, Spain.Published paper from the thesis:
Personal website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cristinarata/

Vorsatz, Marc (July 2005)

Thesis title: Dichotomous Preferences, Truth-telling and Collective Actions. Advisor: Jordi Massó Placement: Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics, Maastricht University, The Netherlands.Current employment: Full Professor at the Department of Economics, UNED, Madrid, Spain.Published papers from the thesis:Sánchez-Pagés, S. & Vorsatz, M. (2007) "An experimental study of truth-telling in a sender-receiver game," Games and Economic Behavior 61, 86-112.Vorsatz, M. (2007) "Approval voting on dichotomous preferences," Social Choice and Welfare 28, 127-141.Vorsatz, M. (2008) "Scoring rules on dichotomous preferences," Social Choice and Welfare 31, 151-162.Personal website: https://sites.google.com/view/mvorsatz

Ballester Pla, Pablo Coralio (July 2005)

Thesis title: On Peer Networks and Group Formation.Advisors: Antoni Calvó-Armengol & Xavier VilàPlacement: Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics, Universitat d'Alacant, Spain.Current employment: Associate Professor at the Department of Economics, Universitat d'Alacant, Spain.Published papers from the thesis:Ballester, C. (2004). "NP-completeness in hedonic games," Games and Economic Behavior 49, 1-30.Ballester, C., Calvó-Armengol, A. & Zenou, Y. (2006). "Who is who in networks wanted: The key player," Econometrica 75, 1403-1418.Website: https://cvnet.cpd.ua.es/curriculum-breve/es/ballester-pla-pablo-coralio/26371

Coelho, Danilo Santa Cruz (November 2004)

Thesis title: Understanding Evaluating and Selecting.Advisor: Salvador BarberàPlacement: Coordinator of Labor and Technology Studies at Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada (IPEA), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.Current employment: Researcher at Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada (IPEA), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Published papers from the thesis:Coelho, D. (2005). "Maximin choice of voting rules for committees," Economics of Governance 6, 159-175. Barberà, S. & Coelho, D. (2008). "How to choose a non-controversial list with k names," Social Choice and Welfare 31, 79-96.Personal website: https://sites.google.com/view/danilo-coelho/home?authuser=0

Veszteg, Róbert Ferenc (September 2004)

Thesis title: Auctions, Mechanisms and Uncertainty.Advisor: David Pérez-Castrillo Placement: Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics, Universidad de Navarra (Pamplona), Spain.Current employment: Professor at School of Political Science and Economics, WASEDA University, Japan. Published papers from the thesis:Pérez-Castrillo, D. & Veszteg, R. (2007). "Choosing a common project: Experimental evidence on the multibidding mechanism," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 63, 394-411. Mendi, P. & Veszteg, R. (2007). "Profitable mergers with endogenous tariffs," Economics Bulletin 12, 1-8. López Espinosa, G. & Veszteg, R. (2008). "Information and prospects: Investment opportunities in small-cap segment," Revista de Economía Financiera 16, 52-77.Website: https://w-rdb.waseda.jp/html/100001094_en.html

Camiña Centeno, Ester (September 2004)

Thesis title: Bilateral and Multilateral Meetings in Trading Environments.Advisor: David Pérez-Castrillo Placement: Associate Professor at the Department of Economics Analysis II, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain.Published papers from the thesis:Camiña, E. (2006). "A generalized assignment game,'' Mathematical Social Sciences 52, 152-161.Camiña, E. & Porteiro, N. (2009). "The role of mediation in peacemaking and peacekeeping negotiations," European Economic Review 53, 72-92.Website: https://www.ucm.es/fundamentos-analisis-economico2/camina-centeno,-ester

Seldeslachts, Jo (July 2004)

Thesis title: Interactions between the Internal Dynamics of Organizations and their Operations in Markets.Advisor: Inés Macho-StadlerPlacement: Research Fellow at Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin (WZB), Germany. Current employment: Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Published papers from the thesis:Banal-Estanol, A., Macho-Stadler, I. & Seldeslachts, J. (2008). "Endogenous mergers and endogenous efficiency gains: The efficiency defence revisited," International Journal of Industrial Organization 26, 69-91.Seldeslachts, J. (2008). "Synchronising deregulation in product and labour markets," Scottish Journal of Political Economy 55, 591-617.Barros, P., Clougherty, J. & Seldeslachts, J. (2009). "Settle for now but block for tomorrow: The deterrence effects of merger policy tools," Journal of Law and Economics 52, 607-634.Website: https://www.uva.nl/en/profile/s/e/j.w.seldeslachts/j.w.seldeslachts.html?cb#Profile

Socorro Quevedo, María del Pilar (March 2004)

Thesis title: On different Modes of Firms’ Cooperation.Advisor: Inés Macho-StadlerPlacement: Assistant Professor at the Department of Applied Economics, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain.Current employment: Associate Professor at the Department of Applied Economics, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain.Published papers from the thesis:Socorro, M. P. (2004). "Mergers and the importance of fitting well," Economics Letters 82, 269-274.Socorro, M. P. (2007). "Mergers under uncertainty: The effects of debt financing," The Manchester School 75, 580-597.Socorro, M. P. (2007). "Optimal technology policy under asymmetric information in a research joint venture," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 62, 76-97.Personal website: https://personales.ulpgc.es/psocorro.daea/

Dumitrescu, Ariadna (October 2003)

Thesis title: Strategic Behaviour in Financial Markets.Advisor: Jordi CaballéPlacement: Assistant Professor at ESADE Business School, Barcelona, Spain.Current employment: Associate Professor of Finance at ESADE Business School, Barcelona, Spain.Published papers from the thesis:Dumitrescu, A. (2001). "Long-term Lending Relationship and the Cost of Funds," Administrative Science Association of Canada Conference Proceedings 22, 22-30.Dumitrescu, A. (2007). "Valuation of defaultable bonds and debt restructuring," Journal of Corporate Finance 13, 94-111. Personal website: http://www.ariadnadumitrescu.com/

Romero Valero, Laura (September 2003)

Thesis title: Essays on Education and Economic Performance. Advisor: Carmen BeviáPlacement: Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Economics, Universidad de Málaga, Spain.Current employment: Adjunct Lecturer at the Department of Economics, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain..Published papers from the thesis:
Website: https://economia.uc3m.es/asociados/

Dam, Kaniska (July 2003)

Thesis title: Contractual Agreements and Endogenous Partnerships in Moral Hazard Economies.Advisor: David Pérez-Castrillo Placement: Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics, Universidad de Guanajuato, Mexico.Current employment: Associate Professor at Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE), Mexico. Published papers from the thesis:Dam, K. & Pérez-Castrillo, D. (2006). "The principal-agent matching market," Frontiers of Theoretical Economics 2, 1.Dam, K. & Zendejas Castillo, S. W. (2006). "Market power and risk taking behavior of banks," Estudios Económicos 21, 55-84. Personal website: https://kaniskadam.weebly.com/

Sánchez Pagés, Santiago (July 2003)

Thesis title: On Conflict and Power.Advisor: Clara PonsatíPlacement: Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom.Current employment: Professor of Economics at King’s College London, United Kingdom.Published papers from the thesis:Bloch, F., Sanchez-Pages, S. & Soubeyran, R. (2006). "When does universal peace prevail? Secession and group formation in conflict," Economics of Governance 7, 3-29,Sanchez-Pages, S. (2006). "On the social efficiency of conflict," Economics Letters 90, 96-101.Sanchez-Pages, S. (2007). "Rivalry, exclusion and coalitions," Journal of Public Economic Theory 9, 809-830.Personal website: http://sanchezpages20105.ipage.com/

Banal Estañol, Albert (July 2003)

Thesis title: Horizontal Mergers: Uncertainty and Internal Organization.Advisors: Inés Macho-Stadler & Xavier VivesPlacement: Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario, Canada.Current employment: Serra Hunter Associate Professor at the Department of Economics and Business, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain.Published papers from the thesis:Banal-Estañol, A. & Ottaviani, M. (2006). "Mergers with product market risk," Journal of Economics & Management Strategy 15, 577-608. Banal-Estañol, A (2007). "Information-Sharing implications of horizontal mergers,". International Journal of Industrial Organization 25, 31-49.Banal-Estañol, A. & Ottaviani, M. (2007). "Bank mergers and diversification: implications for competition policy," European Financial Management 13, 578-590.Website: https://www.upf.edu/es/web/econ/a-d/-/asset_publisher/yiwafuHPvJgn/content/banal-esta%C3%B1ol-albert/maximized

Bordoy Marcó, Catalina (February 2003)

Thesis title: Innovation, Imitation and Trade Agreements: Firms Decisions in International Environments.Advisor: Inés Macho-StadlerPlacement: UNU-MERIT, Maastricht University, The Netherlands.Current employment: Associate Professor at United World College Maastricht, The Netherlands.Published paper from the thesis:Bordoy, C. & Jelovac, I. (2005). "Pricing and welfare implications of parallel imports in the pharmaceutical industry," International Journal of Health Care Finance and Economics 5, 5-21.Personal website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/catalina-bordoy-722a6a11/

Adamuz Peña, María Mercedes (October 2002)

Thesis title: Essays on Bargaining with outside Options.Advisor: Clara PonsatíPlacement: Assistant Professor at Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM), Mexico.Current employment: Full Professor at Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM), Mexico.Published paper from the thesis:
Website: https://facultad.itam.mx/facultad/3859-maria-mercedes-adamuz-pena

Domínguez Manzano, Begoña (July 2002)

Thesis title: Essays on the Time Consistency of Optimal Fiscal Policy.Advisor: Jordi CaballéPlacement: Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain. Current employment: Professor at School of Economics, The University of Queensland, Australia.Published papers from the thesis:
Website: https://economics.uq.edu.au/profile/10135/begona-dominguez

Porteiro Fresco, Nicolás (April 2002)

Thesis title: Economies with Externalities: Regulation and Incentives.Advisor: Inés Macho-StadlerPlacement: Postdoctoral Fellow at CORE- Université Catholique de Louvain, France. Last employment: Associate Professor at the Department of Economics, Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Sevilla, Spain.Published papers from the thesis:Porteiro, N. (2005). "Regulation of specialized medical care with public and private provision," European Journal of Political Economy 21, 221-246. Macho-Stadler, I. & Pérez-Castrillo, D. & Porteiro, N. (2006). "Sequential formation of coalitions through bilateral agreements in a cournot setting," International Journal of Game Theory 34, 207-228. Porteiro, N. (2007). "An efficient and egalitarian negotiation procedure for economies with externalities," Social Choice and Welfare 28, 19-40.Porteiro, N. (2008). "Pressure groups and experts in environmental regulation," Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 65, 156-175.Personal website: https://ideas.repec.org/e/ppo48.htmlIn memoriam

Dahm, Matthias (April 2002)

Thesis title: Conditional Stability and Economic Efficiency.Advisor: Salvador BarberàPlacement: Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics, Universitat d'Alacant, Spain.Current employment: Professor of Economics, at University of Leicester, United Kingdom.Published papers from the thesis:Cechlárová, K. & Dahm, M. & Lacko, V. (2001). "Efficiency and stability in a discrete model of country formation," Journal of Global Optimization 20, 239-256. Dahm, M. (2010). "Free mobility and taste-homogeneity of jurisdiction structures,", International Journal of Game Theory 39, 259–272.Personal website: https://matthiasdahm.com/

Mestre Ferrandiz, Jorge (January 2002)

Thesis title: Essays on the Pharmaceutical Industry.Advisor: Xavier Martínez-GiraltPlacement: Office of Health Economics, United Kingdom. Current employment: Researcher at ISPOR Spain Chapter, Madrid, Spain.Published paper from the thesis:Mestre, J. (1999). "The impact of generic goods in the pharmaceutical industry," Health Economics 8, 599-612.Personal website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jorge-mestre-ferrandiz-331ab017/?originalSubdomain=es

Burani, Nadia (January 2002)

Thesis title: On the Stability and Efficiency of Decentralized Marching Processes.Advisor: Clara PonsatíPlacement: Postdoral Fellow at the Department of Economics, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain.Current employment: Associate Professor at the Department of Economics, Università di Bologna, Italy.Published paper from the thesis:Burani, N. & Zwicker W. (2003). "Coalition formation games with separable preferences," Mathematical Social Sciences 45, 27-52.Website: https://www.unibo.it/sitoweb/nadia.burani/en

Horváth, Réka (October 2001)

Thesis title: Cooperation in Research and Development.Advisor: David Pérez-Castrillo Placement: Economic consultant at DotEcon Limited, London, United Kingdom.Current employment: Head of Unit at European Commission, Brussels, Belgium.Published papers from the thesis:
Personal website: https://be.linkedin.com/in/reka-horvath-%F0%9F%87%AA%F0%9F%87%BA-8803428

Comino, Stefano (July 2001)

Thesis title: Entry Decisions and the Governance Form of Strategic Alliances.Advisor: David Pérez-Castrillo Placement: Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Economics, Università di Padova, Italy. Current employment: Associate Professor at Department of Economics and Statistics, Università di Udine, Italy. Published papers from the thesis:Comino, S. & Manenti, F. (2005). "Government policies supporting open source software for the Mass market," Review of Industrial Organization 26, 217-240. Comino, S. (2006). "Entry and exit with information externalities," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 60, 85-99. Comino, S., Manenti, F. & Parisi, M. L. (2007). "From planning to mature: On the success of open source projects," Research Policy 36, 1575-1586.Personal website: https://stefanocomino.weebly.com/

Morales Illán, María Fuensanta (September 2001)

Thesis title: Essays on Growth Through Creative Destruction.Advisor: Jordi CaballéPlacement: Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics, Universidad de Murcia, Spain.Current employment: Associate Professor at the Department of Economics, Universidad de Murcia, Spain.Published paper from the thesis:Morales, F. (2003). "Financial intermediation in a model of growth through creative destruction," Macroeconomic Dynamics 7, 334-394.Website: https://www.um.es/mastereco/fuensanta-morales/

Perote Peña, Juan (April 2001)

Thesis title: Compensation Schemes in Collective Decision Making.Advisor: Salvador BarberàPlacement: Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain.Current employment: Associate Professor at the Department of Economics, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain.Published papers from the thesis:Perote, J. & Piggins, A. (2002). "Exposita note : Geometry and impossibility," Economic Theory 20, 831-836.Perote, J. & Perote, J. (2003). "The impossibility of strategy-proof clustering," Economics Bulletin 4, 1-9.Perote, J. & Perote, J. (2004). "Strategy-proof estimators for simple regression," Mathematical Social Sciences 47, 153-176.Website: http://dae.unizar.es/jperote/index.htm

Panadès Martí, Judith (September 2000)

Thesis title: Essays on Tax Compliance.Advisor: Inés Macho-StadlerPlacement: Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Sabadell, Spain. Current employment: Associate Professor at the Department of Economics, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Spain. Published papers from the thesis:Panadès, J. (1999). "El cumplimiento del principio de la igualdad de sacrificio en el IRPF español," Hacienda Pública Española 148, 245-265. Caballé, J. & Panadés, J. (2000). "Tax evasion and economic growth," Public Finance 52, 318-340. Panadès, J. (2001). "Tax evasion and Ricardian equivalence," European Journal of Political Economy 17, 799-815.Website: http://pareto.uab.es/jpanades/

Cantala, David (July 2000)

Thesis title: Voting with Self-exclusion and Restabilization of Senior Level Markets. Advisor: Jordi Massó Placement: Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics, ITAM, Mexico.Current employment: Full Professor at the Department of Economics, El Colegio de México, Mexico.Published papers from the thesis:Cantala, D. (2004). "Choosing a level of public good when agents have an outside option," Social Choice and Welfare 22, 491-514.Cantala, D. (2004). "Re-stabilizing matching markets at senior level," Games and Economic Behavior 48, 1-17.Website: https://cee.colmex.mx/personal-academico/cantala-david/semblanza

Getán Oliván, Jesús Francisco (June 2000)

Thesis title: (*,s)-dualidades.Advisor: Juan Enrique Martínez-LegazPlacement: Assistant Professor at the Department of Mathematics, University School of the Universitat de Barcelona, Spain.Current employment: Associate Professor at the Department of Mathematics, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain.Published papers from the thesis:
Personal website: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=4bJ5aXMAAAAJ&hl=es

Nicolò, Antonio (January 2000)

Thesis title: Social Compromise and Collective Choice. Incentive-Compatible, Efficient and Fair Procedures.Advisor: Salvador BarberàPlacement: Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Economics and Management, Università di Padova, Italy.Current employment: Professor of Economics at Università di Padova, Italy and at School of Social Sciences, University of Manchester. United Kingdom.Published papers from the thesis:Jackson, M. O. & Nicolò, A. (2004). "The strategy-proof provision of public goods under congestion and crowding preferences," Journal of Economic Theory 115, 278-308. Nicolò, A. (2004). "Efficiency and truthfulness with Leontief preferences. A note on two-agent two-good economies," Review of Economic Design 8, 373-382.Bogomolnaia, A. & Nicolò, A. (2005). "Stable assignment of public facilities under congestion," Journal of Public Economic Theory 7, 63-95.Personal website: https://sites.google.com/site/anicolo68/

Hromcová, Jana (October 1999)

Thesis title: Essays on Money and Endogenous Growth.Advisor: Jordi CaballéPlacement: Visiting Professor at the Department of Economics, Universitat d'Alacant, Spain.Current employment: Adjunct Professor at NEOMA Business School, Mont-Saint-Aignan, France.Published papers from the thesis:
Personal website: https://sites.google.com/site/hromcova/

Coto Martínez, Javier (October 1999)

Thesis title: Imperfect Competition and Macroeconomics.Advisor: Jordi CaballéPlacement: Lecturer in Economics at the University of East Anglia, United Kingdom.Current employment: Lecturer in Economics and Finance at Brunel University, London, United Kingdom.Published papers from the thesis:
Website: https://www.brunel.ac.uk/people/javier-coto-martinez

Caballero Jurado, Javier (June 1999)

Thesis title: Technological Policy and the Organization of RAND Development. Advisor: Inés Macho-StadlerPlacement: Computer firm in Barcelona, Spain.Current employment: Published paper from the thesis:
Personal website:

Raurich Puigdevall, Xavier (October 1998)

Thesis title: Essays on Economic Growth and Government Spending.Advisor: Jordi CaballéPlacement: Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Economics, Universitat d'Alacant, Spain. Current employment: Full Professor at the Department of Economics, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain.Published papers from the thesis:Raurich, X. (2000). "Global indeterminacy in an endogenous growth model with public capita,l"Journal of Economics 71, 255-280. Raurich, X. (2001). "Indeterminacy and government spending in a two-sector model of endogenous growth," Review of Economic Dynamics 4, 210-229. Raurich, X. & Sorolla, V. (2003). "Unemployment, Growth and Public Capital," Spanish Economic Review 5, 49-61.Personal website: https://sites.google.com/view/xavier-raurich

Jelovac, Izabela (November 1998)

Thesis title: Incentives in Large Economies.Advisor: Inés Macho-StadlerPlacement: Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics, Universidade de Vigo, Pontevedra, Spain.Current employment: Researcher at GATE Lyon-St Etienne (CNRS), Ecully, Lyon, France. Published papers from the thesis:Jelovac, I. (2001). "Physicians' payment contracts, treatment decisions and diagnosis accuracy," Health Economics 10, 9-25.Jelovac, I. & Macho-Stadler, I. (2002). "Comparing organizational structures in health services," Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 49, 501-522.García-Mariñoso, B. & Jelovac, I. (2002). "GPs' payment contracts and their referral practice," Journal of Health Economic Theory 22, 617-635.Website: https://www.gate.cnrs.fr/izabela-jelovac/

Kovalenkow, Alexander (June 1998)

Thesis title: Incentives in Large Economies.Advisor: Salvador BarberàPlacement: Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Economics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA. Current employment: Professor of Economics at Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom.Published papers from the thesis:Kovalenkow, A. & Wooders, M. (2001). "Epsilon cores of games with limited side payments: Nonemptyness and equal payment," Games and Economic Behaviour 36, 193-218.Kovalenkow, A. & Wooders, M. (2001). "An exact bound of epsilon for nonemptyness of epsilon cores of games," Mathematics of Operations Research 26, 654-678.Kovalenkow, A. (2002). "Simple strategy-proof approximately Walrasian mechanisms,"Journal of Economic Theory 103, 475-487.Website: https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/business/staff/alexanderkovalenkov/

Bogomolnaia, Anna (March 1998)

Thesis title: Medians and Lotteries: Strategy–Proof Social Choice Rules for Restricted Domains.Advisor: Salvador BarberàPlacement: Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Economics, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom.Current employment: Professor of Economics at Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom.Published papers from the thesis:Barberà, S., Bogomolnaia, A. & Van der Stel, H. (1998). "Strategy-proof probabilistic rules for expected utility maximizers," Mathematical Social Sciences 35, 89-103.Bogomolnaia, A. & Moulin, H. (2001). "A new solution to the random assignment problem," Journal of Economic Theory 100, 295-328.Website: https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/business/staff/annbogomolnaia/

Meseguer Artola, Antoni (December 1997)

Thesis title: Dual Representation of Games and Its Applications.Advisor: Juan Enrique Martínez-LegazPlacement: Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Economics and Business, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), Barcelona, Spain.Current employment: Professor at the Department of Quantitative Methods for Economics and Business, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), Barcelona, Spain.Published papers from the thesis:
Website: https://talent.uoc.edu/en/antoni-meseguer-artola.html

Berga Colom, Dolors (September 1997)

Thesis title: Maximal Domains and Strategy-proofness in Public Good Economies. Advisor: Jordi Massó Placement: Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics, Universitat de Girona, Spain.Current employment: Associate Professor at the Department of Economics, Universitat de Girona, Spain.Published papers from the thesis:Berga, D. (1998). "Strategy-proofness and single-plateaued preferences," Mathematical Social Sciences 35, 105-120.Berga, D. & Serizawa, S. (2000). "Maximal domain for strategy-proof rules with one public good," Journal of Economic Theory 90, 39-61.Personal website: https://sites.google.com/view/dolorsberga/main-page

Cardona Coll, Daniel (June 1997)

Thesis title: Essays on Non-Cooperative Multilateral Bargaining.Advisor: Clara PonsatíPlacement: Assistant Professor at the Department of Applied Economics, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Palma de Mallorca, Spain.Current employment: Associate Professor at the Department of Applied Economics, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Palma de Mallorca, Spain.Published papers from the thesis:Cardona, D. (1997). "Voting by veto and the role of the compromise function," Mathematical Social Sciences 33, 101-113.Cardona, D. & Mancera, F. (2000). "Demand bargaining in legislatures," Economic Theory 16, 163-180.Cardona, D. (2003). "Bargaining and strategic demand commitment," Theory and Decision 54, 357-374.Website: https://www.uib.cat/personal/ABTExMDIy/

Alonso Carrera, Jaime (January 1997)

Thesis title: Essays on Two-Sector Models of Endogenous Growth.Advisor: Jordi CaballéPlacement: Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics, Universidade de Vigo, Pontevedra, Spain. Current employment: Professor of Economics, at the Department of Economics, Universidade de Vigo, Pontevedra, Spain.Published papers from the thesis:
Personal website: https://sites.google.com/view/jaime-alonso-carrera/about-me

Pastor Gosálbez, María Teresa (October 1996)

Thesis title: Asimetrías Informativas en Proyectos Conjuntos de I+D y en la cesión de proveedores a empresas rivales.Advisor: Pau OlivellaPlacement: Assistant Professor at the Department of Business and Economics, Universidad CEU Cardenal Herrera, Elche, Alacant, Spain.Current employment: Associate Professor at the Department of Business and Economics, Universidad CEU Cardenal Herrera, Elche, Alacant, Spain.Published papers from the thesis:Pastor, M. & Sandonís, J. (2000). "Disclosing own subsidies in cooperative research projects," Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 42, 385-404.Pastor, M. & Sandonís, J. (2002). "Research joint ventures vs. cross licensing agreements: An agency approach," International Journal of Industrial Organization 20, 215-249.Olivella, P. & Pastor, M. (2003). "Cost reducing strategies," Investigaciones Económicas 27, 5-37.Website: https://www.uchceu.es/directorio/pasto-el

Manzano Tovar, Carolina (September 1996)

Thesis title: Essays on Financial Markets.Advisor: Jordi CaballéPlacement: Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Reus, Tarragona, Spain. Current employment: Associate Professor at the Department of Economics, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Reus, Tarragona, Spain.Published papers from the thesis:
Website: https://www.eco-sos.urv.cat/es/sobre-nosotros/miembros/18/manzano-tovar-carolina

Burgos Hernández, Albert (December 1995)

Thesis title: Nash Bargaining Theory without the Independence Axiom.Advisor: Clara PonsatíPlacement: Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics, Universidad de Murcia, Spain.Current employment: Associate Professor at the Department of Economics, Universidad de Murcia, Spain.Published papers from the thesis:Burgos, A. (2002). "Learning to deal with risk: What does reinforcement learning tell us about risk attitudes?," Economics Bulletin 4, 1-13.Burgos, A., Grant, S. & Kajii, A. (2002). "Bargaining and boldness," Games and Economic Behavior 38, 28-51.Burgos, A. (2004). "Guessing and gambling," Economics Bulletin 4, 1-10.Website: https://www.um.es/web/perfil/curriculum?correo=albert

Romero-Medina, Antonio (December 1995)

Thesis title: Fairness and Implementation in Matching Markets.Advisor: Salvador BarberàPlacement: Postdoctoral Fellow, Fulbright-MEC Fellowship at the Department of Economics, University of California, Riverside, USA.Current employment: Associate Professor at the Department of Economics, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain.Published papers from the thesis:Romero-Medina, A. (1998). "Implementation of stable solutions in a restricted matching market," Review of Economic Design 3, 137-147.Alcalde, J., Pérez-Castrillo, D. & Romero-Medina, A. (1998). "Hiring procedures to implement stable allocations," Journal of Economic Theory 82, 469-480.Alcalde, J. & Romero-Medina, A. (2000). "Simple mechanisms to implement the core of college admissions problems," Games and Economic Behavior 31, 294-302.Personal website: https://sites.google.com/site/antonioromeromedina/arm/cv?authuser=0

de Frutos, María de los Ángeles (1994)

Thesis title: An Axiomatic and Strategic Approach to Three Sharing Problems.Advisor: Jordi Massó Placement: Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain.Last employment: Full Professor at the Department of Economics, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain.Published papers from the thesis:de Frutos, M. A. (1998). "Serial cost sharing under economies to scale," Journal of Economic Theory 79, 245-275.de Frutos, M. A. (1999). "Coalition manipulations in an estate-sharing problem," Review of Economic Design 4, 255-272.Website: In memoriam

Fuster Pérez, María Luisa (January 1994)

Thesis title: Altruismo y Acumulación de Capital.Advisor: Jordi Caballé Placement: Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain.Last employment: Full Professor at the Department of Economics, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain.Published papers from the thesis:

Personal website: https://sites.google.com/view/luisa-fuster/home?authuser=0

Plata Pérez, Leobardo Pedro (July 1994)

Thesis title: Agregación con comparibilidad parcial e invarianza de las representaciones de preferencias.Advisor: Salvador BarberàPlacement: Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics, Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, Mexico.Current employment: Professor of the Economics at Department of Economics, Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, Mexico.Published papers from the thesis:

Website: https://investigadores.uaslp.mx/InvestigadorProfile/ATUAAA%3D%3D

Alcalde Pérez, José (February 1994)

Thesis title: Matching: Stability and Incentives.Advisor: Salvador BarberàPlacement: Associate Professor at the Department of Economics, Universitat d'Alacant, Spain.Current employment: Full Professor of Economics at Instituto Desarrollo Social y Paz (IUDESP), Universitat d'Alacant, Spain.Published paper from the thesis:Alcalde, J. & Barberà, S. (1994). "Top dominance and the possibility of strategy-proof stable allocations to matching problems," Economic Theory 4, 417-435. Alcalde, J. (1995). "Exchange-proofness or divorce-proofness? Stability in one-sided matching markets," Economic Design 1, 275-287. Alcalde, J. (1996). "Implementation of stable solutions to marriage problems," Journal of Economic Theory 69, 240-254.Personal website: https://personal.ua.es/jose.alcalde/

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