Research
A selection of my recently published papers follows (not of all of them with clickable links):
"A Simple Twist of Fate. An Experiment on Election Uncertainty and Democratic Institutions", 2024, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, joint with Lina María Restrepo-Plaza (Universidad Europea de Valencia) and Sheheryar Banuri (University of East Anglia).
"Inequality as a Behavioral Driver: An Inspiring Contribution to Behavioral Political Economy by Shaun Hargreaves-Heap", 2024, Review of Behavioral Economics, joint with Lina María Restrepo-Plaza (Universidad Europea de Valencia).
"Social aspiration reinforcement learning in Cournot games", 2024, Economic Theory, joint with Ainhoa Jaramillo (Universitat Jaume I) and Antonio J. Morales (Universidad de Málaga).
"Consistent Depth of Reasoning in Level-k Models", 2024, American Economic Journal - Micro, joint with David J. Cooper (Florida State University), Antonio J. Morales (Universidad de Málaga) and Shi Qi (College of William and Mary).
"In Transparency We Trust. An Experimental Study of Reputation, Transparency, and Signalling", 2023, Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, joint with Natalia Borzino and Emmanuele Peterle.
"The Inclusion of Minority Groups", 2023, in Artavia-Mora, L. & Khan, Z.. Behavioral Science for Development. Insights and Strategies for Global Impact (1st ed.). Action Design Network Press
"Building Political Institutions in Polarized Scenarios", 2023, Constitutional Political Economy, forthcoming, joint with Lina Restrepo-Plaza
"Sacrifice. An experiment on the political economy of extreme inter-group punishment", 2022, Journal of Economic Psychology, 90, 102486, joint with Catherine Eckel and Malcolm Kass.
"When ingroup favoritism is not the social norm a lab-in-the-field experiment with victims and non-victims of conflict in Colombia", 2022, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 194, 363-383, joint with Lina Restrepo-Plaza.
"When losses can be a gain. A lab-in-the-field experiment on reference dependent forgiveness in Colombia", 2022, Journal of Economic Psychology, 88, 102463, joint with Lina Restrepo-Plaza.
"A Self-Funding Reward Mechanism for Tax-Compliance", 2021, Journal of Economic Psychology, 86, 102421, joint with Martin Sefton, Daniele Nosenzo and Daniel Zizzo.
“In Science We Should Trust”, 2021, PLoS, ONE, forthcoming, joint with Cristina Bicchieri, Abraham Aldama, Casas, A., Deshpande, I., Lauro, M., ... & Wen, R., 16(6), e0252892.
“The behavioral consequences of conflict exposure on risk preferences”, 2021, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance, forthcoming, joint with Lina Restrepo-Plaza, Nataly Jiménez and Gustavo Rincón.
"Price Competition and Nominal Illusion Price competition and nominal illusion. Experimental evidence and a behavioral model", 2021, SERIEs, forthcoming, joint with Antonio J. Morales.
"Not all groups are created equal", 2021, Experimental Economics, 24 (2), 669-697 (joint with Francesco Fallucci, Felix Kolle and Ori Weisel).
"Social hierarchies. A laboratory study on punishment patterns across networks", 2020, Economic Inquiry, 58 (1), 104-119 (joint with Miguel A. Meléndez-Jiménez and Hector Solaz).
"Linguistic diversity and out-group discrimination in bilingual societies", 2019, Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, (joint with Maria P. Espinosa and Paloma Úbeda), doi.org/10.1016/j.socec.2019.06.002
"The behavioral thirst for power", 2019, Economía Industrial, forthcoming (joint with Lina M. Restrepo-Plaza), Spanish Ministry of Commerce and Industry.
“Preference conformism: an experiment”, 2018, European Economic Review, 105, 71-82 (joint with Shaun Hargreaves-Heap and David Rojo-Arjona)
"The joy of ruling: an experimental investigation on collective giving", 2018, Theory and Decision, 1-22. (joint with Antonio J. Morales).
“El papel de la información en mercados experimentales” , 2017, Economía Industrial, 403, 11-18 (joint with Antonio J Morales, "The Role of Information in Experimental Markets", report for the Spanish Ministry of Commerce and Industry, leading article).
“Vertical separation vs. independent downstream entry in an electricity network”, 2017, Electric Power Systems Research, 143, 728-738, joint with Aitor CIarreta, Carlos Gutierrez-Hita and Nikolaos Georgantzis.
“Carry a big stick, or no stick at all: punishment and endowment heterogeneity in the trust game”, 2016, Journal of Economic Psychology, 57, 153-171 (joint with Vicente Calabuig, Gonzalo Olcina and Ismael Rodriguez-Lara)
“Group-level selection increases cooperation in the public goods game”, 2016, PLoS One, 11 (8) (joint work with Catherine Eckel, Sara Godoy and Rick WIlson)
“Stand by me. Experiments on Help and Commitment in Coordination Games”, 2016, Management Science, 62 (10) 2916-2936 (joint with David J Cooper, Shi Qi, and Jordi Brandts).
“Labor market: Incentives, Wages and Contracts”, 2016, in Experimental Economics, 2, 122-135, (joint with Antonio J Morales).
“Excludability. A laboratory study on forced ranking in team production”, 2015, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 114, 13-26 (joint with Rachel Croson, Antonio J Morales and Tibor Neugebauer).
“Encouraging replication of economic experiments”, 2015, in Replication in Experimental Economics, Research in Experimental Economics, vol 18, edited by Cary Deck, Enrique Fatas and Tanya Rosenblat, Emerald Books (joint with Cary Deck and Tanya Rosenblat).
“Antisocial Punishment in Two Social Dilemmas”, 2015 Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 9, 107 (joint with Guillermo Mateu).
“Public Goods and Decay in Networks”, 2015, SERIEs - Journal of the Spanish Economic Association, 6, 1, 73-90 (joint with Miguel A Melendez, Antonio J Morales and Hector Solaz)
“The UN in the lab”, 2015, Social Choice and Welfare, 45, 625-651 (joint work with Malcolm Kass, Catherine Eckel and Dan Arce).
“The impact of relative position and returns on sacrifice and reciprocity”, 2015, Social Choice and Welfare, 45, 489-511, (joint work with Jordi Brandts, Ernan Haruvy and Francis Lagos)
“A Psychological Re-examination of the Bertrand Paradox”, 2014, Southern Economic Journal, 80, 4, 948-968 (joint with Antonio J. Morales and Ernan Haruvy)
“Consumer Behavior and Market Competition”, 2013, in Behavioral Economics in Competition and Consumer Policy, edited by Judith Mehta, ESRC Center for Competition Policy (joint with Bruce Lyons)
“Step thinking and costly coordination”, 2013, Economics Letters, 120, 181-183, (joint with Antonio J Morales)
“Splitting leagues: promotion and demotion in contribution-based regrouping experiments”, 2013, Experimental Economics, 16, 426-441 (joint with Susana Cabrera, Tate Lacomba and Tibor Neugebauer)
“An Experimental Test of Dynamic Consumption and Lump-Sum Pensions”, 2013, SERIEs - Journal of the Spanish Economic Association, 4, 393-413 (joint with Juan A Lacomba, Francis Lagos and Ana Moro)
“Experimental Duopolies under price guarantees”, Applied Economics, 2013, 45,15-35 (joint with Nikolaos Georgantzís, Juan Mañez, and Gerardo Sabater).
“Connectivity and Cooperation,” 2012, in The Oxford Handbook of Economic Conflict Resolution, Gary E. Bolton and Rachel T.A. Croson, eds. New York, NY: Oxford University Press Inc, chapter 12, 155-180, (joint with Gianluca Grimalda, and Nancy Buchan).
“Counterterrorism Strategies in the lab”, 2011, Public Choice, 149, 465-478 (joint with Dann Arce, Sneha Bakshi, Rachel T. A. Croson, Catherine Eckel and Malcolm Kass).
“Controlling for Initial Endowment and Experience in Binary Choice Tasks”, 2011, Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 43, 3 (joint with Antonio J. Moralesand Francisca Jimenez).
“Global Social Identity and Global Cooperation”, Psychological Science, 2011, 22, 6, 821-828, (joint with Nancy Buchan, Marilynn Brewer, Gianluca Grimalda, Rick Wilson, and Margaret Foddy).
“Blind Fines in Cooperatives”, Review of Agricultural Economics (Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy), 2010, 32, 4, 564-587, (joint with Francisca Jimenez and Antonio J. Morales).
“Inducing Efficient Conditional Cooperation Patterns in Public Goods Games”, Journal of Economic Psychology, 2010, 31, 872-883, (joint with Pablo Brañas and Pablo Guillen).
“An Experimental Analysis of Team Production in Networks”, Experimental Economics, 2010, 13, 339-411, (joint with Miguel A. Melendez and Hector Solaz).
“Cooperation and Status in Organizations”, Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2010, 12 (4), 737-762, (joint with Catherine Eckel and Rick Wilson).
“Blind Justice: An experimental analysis of random punishment in team production”, Journal of Economic Psychology, 2010, 31, 3, 358-373, (joint with Antonio J. Morales and Paloma Ubeda) .
“Globalization and Human Cooperation”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science PNAS, 2009, 106, 11, 4138-4142, (joint with Nancy Buchan, Marilynn Brewer, Margaret Foddy, Gianluca Grimalda, and Rick Wilson).
"Participación en la distribución: un análisis experimental de las instituciones políticas (Participation in income distribution: an experimental analysis of political institutions)". Cuadernos económicos de ICE, 2008, (77), 9-32 (joint with Sara Godoy).
“Leadership and Overcoming Coordination Failure with Asymmetric Costs”, Experimental Economics, 2007, 10, 269-284, (joint with Jordi Brandts and David J. Cooper).
“An Experimental Test on Retirement Decisions”, Economic Inquiry, 2007, 45, 3, 602-614, (joint with Francis Lagos and Juan A. Lacomba).
“How Politicians Make Decisions: A Political Choice Experiment”, Journal of Economics, 2007, 92, 2, (joint with Tibor Neugebauer, and Pilar Tamborero).
“Are Low Price Promises Collusion Guarantees? An Experimental Test of Price Matching Policies”, Spanish Economic Review, 2007, 8, 4, 237, (joint with Juan Mañez).
“Within team competition in the minimum coordination game”, Pacific Economic Review, 2006, 11, 2, 247-266, (joint with Tibor Neugebauer and Javier Perote).
“Pro-competitive price beating guarantees”, Review of Industrial Organization, 2005, 26, 1, 115-137, (joint with Nikolaos Georgantzís Juan Mañez and Gerardo Sabater).
"Conditional cooperation in two public goods games: the weakest link and the VCM", Economics Letters, 2005, 87, 97-101, (joint with Rachel T. A. Croson and Tibor Neugebauer).
"Una introducción a la metodología experimental en economía", Cuadernos de Economía: Spanish Journal of Economics and Finance, 2004, 27, 75, 7-36 (joint with Jose M Roig).
"Mixture and Distribution of Different Water Qualities: An Experimental Economist Approach", Cuadernos de Economía: Spanish Journal of Economics and Finance, 2004, 27 (joint with Aurora G. Gallego, Nikolaos Georgantzis, Tibor Neugebauer and Praveen Kujal)
"Equidad y evasión fiscal. Un test experimental", Revista de Economía Aplicada, 2004, 12, 34, (joint with Jose M Roig).
"Endogenous social influence in an experimental dilemma game", Centro de Estudios Andaluces, 2004, 59 (joint with Jordi Brandts)
"Asset markets and equilibrium selection in public goods games with provision points: An experimental study", Economic Inquiry, 2003, 41(4), 574-591, (joint with Bruno Broseta and Tibor Neugebauer)