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I am an assistant professor (tenure-track) at CUNEF Universidad. I was a post-doc at the Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance (2016-2023). I obtained my Ph.D. from Universidad Carlos III (2017).
I have two Spanish accreditations: the ANECA "Profesor Titular de Universidad", and a 2014-2019 sexenio. I have been awarded a 5-year Talento "César Nombela" research grant.
I am an applied theorist with interests in contests, political economy and bounded rationality. I recently started working on empirical and experimental economics.
You can find my CV and Google Scholar here, and contact me at marco.serena@cunef.edu.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
"Repeated Contests with Commitment", (with Stefano Barbieri)
2025, European Economic Review, 177, 105055. [WP]
"R&D Contest Design with Resource Allocation and Entry Fees" (with Xiaoqi Dong, Qiang Fu, and Zenan Wu)
2025, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 238,107168. [WP]
"Type-projection, pro-social behavior, and a public good game" (with Stefano Barbieri)
2025, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 237, 107146. [WP]
"On the (Im-)Possibility of Representing Probability Distributions as a Difference of I.I.D. Noise Terms" (with Christian Ewerhart)
2025, Mathematics of Operations Research, 50(1), 390-409. [WP]
"Winners' Efforts in Multi-Battle Team Contests" (with Stefano Barbieri)
2024, Games and Economic Behavior, 145, 526-556. [WP]
"Biasing Dynamic Contests Between Ex-Ante Symmetric Players" (with Stefano Barbieri)
2022, Games and Economic Behavior, 136, 1-30. [WP]
"Bid Cap and Disclosure Policies" (with Bo Chen)
2022, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 209, 141-160. [WP]
"Harnessing Beliefs to Optimally Disclose Contestants' Types"
2021, Economic Theory, 1-30. [WP]
OTHER PUBLICATIONS:
"Fair Representation in Primaries: Heterogeneity and the New Hampshire Effect" (with Stefano Barbieri)
2025, Journal of Theoretical Politics, Forthcoming. [WP]
"Disclosure Policies in All-pay Auctions with Affiliated Values" (with Bo Chen and Zijia Wang)
2024, Economic Modelling, 141, 106870. [WP]
"Centralized assignment of prizes and contestants" (with Stefano Barbieri)
2023, Social Choice and Welfare, 1-36. [WP]
"An Empirical Analysis of Insistent Bargaining" (with Jonas Send)
2022, Journal of Economic Psychology, 90, 102516. [WP]
"Level-k models and overspending in contests" (with Malin Arve)
2022, Games, 13(3), 45. [WP]
"Properties of contests: Constructing contest success functions from best-responses" (with Luis Corchón)
2022, Journal of Dynamics & Games, 9(2), 151-163. [WP]
"Winner’s effort maximization in large contests" (with Stefano Barbieri)
2021, Journal of Mathematical Economics, 96, 102512. [WP]
"The Value of Information on Deadlines; Successful Opaque Management"
2021, International Journal of Game Theory, 50, 377–397. [WP]
"Complete Information Pivotal-Voter Model with Asymmetric Group Size and Asymmetric Benefits" (with Christos Mavridis)
2021, European Journal of Political Economy, 69. [WP]
"A Game-Free Microfoundation of Mutual Optimism"
2019, Games, 10(4), 37.
2018, Handbook of game theory and industrial organization, 2, 125-146. [WP]
"Complete Information Pivotal-Voter Model with Asymmetric Group Size" (with Christos Mavridis)
2018, Public Choice, 177, 53–66. [WP]
"Sequential Contests Revisited"
2017, Public Choice, 173, 131-144. [WP]
2017, European Journal of Political Economy, 46, 15-25. [WP]
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