Salvador BARBERÀ

Ph.D.: Northwestern University, (1975)

Emeritus Professor of Economics
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and Barcelona School of Economics

Recent publications:

"Condorcet consistency and pairwise justifiability under variable agendas" (joint with D. Berga, B. Moreno and A. Nicolò). International Economic Review, online 2024. link
“(Not) Addressing Issues in Electoral Campaigns” (joint with A. Gerber). Journal of Theoretical Politics 35(4), 259–291, 2023. link
“Wine Rankings and the Borda Method” (joint with W. Bossert and J. D. Moreno-Ternero). Journal of Wine Economics 18, 122–138, 2023. link
“Opinion Aggregation: Borda and Condorcet revisited” (joint with W. Bossert). Journal of Economic Theory 210, 105654, 2023. link
“Order–k Rationality” (joint with G.de Clippel, A. Neme and K. Rozen). Economic Theory 73, 1135–1153, 2022. link
“Compromising on Compromise Rules” (joint with D. Coelho). RAND Journal of Economics 53(1), 95–112, 2022. link
“Deciding on What to Decide” (joint with A. Gerber). International Economic Review 63(1), 37–61, 2022. link
“Restricted Environments and Incentive Compatibility in Interdependent Values Models” (joint with D. Berga and B. Moreno). Games and Economic Behavior 131, 1–28, 2022. link
“Information Disclosure with many Alternatives” (joint with A. Nicolò). Social Choice and Welfare 57(4), 851–873, 2021. link

Latest working papers:

“Mechanisms to Appoint Arbitrator Panels or Sets of Judges by Compromise Between Concerned Parties” (joint with D. Coelho). SSRN–id4752866, and BSE Working Paper 1442, revised June 2024.
“On the Endogenous Order of Play in Sequential Games” (joint with A. Gerber). SSRN–id4810792, and BSE Working Paper 1443, April 2024.
“Intermediate Condorcet Winners and Losers” (joint with W. Bossert). (This is a new version of a paper that was previously circulated under the title: “Identifying Strong Voter Support: Condorcet and Smith Revisited”). BSE Working Paper 1380, and SSRN–id4320762, revised March 2024.
“(Weak) Pairwise Justifiability as a Common Root of Arrow’s and the Gibbard-Satterthwaite Theorems” (joint with D. Berga, B. Moreno and A. Nicolò). SSRN–id4497078, April 2023.

Salvador Barberà is Emeritus Professor of Economics at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and a BSE Emeritus Research Professor. He earned a PhD. in Economics from Northwestern University (1975). He chaired the Department of Economics and Economic History and was the first director of the IDEA doctoral program, at UAB, as well as scientific director of the BSE Master in the Economics of Science and Innovation.

He is a fellow of the Econometric Society, the Spanish Economic Association, the Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory and the Game Theory Society, and elected member of the Academia Europaea. He received the Rey Juan Carlos Award in Economics, XVIII Fundació Catalana per a la Recerca i la Innovació Prize (FCRI), the Rey Jaime I Award, the Spanish National “Pascual Madoz” Research Prize, and the Narcís Monturiol Medal, awarded by Generalitat de Catalunya. He is also Doctor Honoris Causa of the Universidad Pablo de Olavide.

As a researcher, Prof. Barberà has concentrated in the fields of public economics, incentives, utility and game theory. More specifically, he is an expert in social choice theory, the design of strategy-proof mechanisms, and the analysis of voting procedures. He has co-edited a two-volume Handbook of Utility Theory, and his publications have appeared in Econometrica, American Economic Review, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, The Review of Economic Studies, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Economic Theory, Games and Economic Behavior and Social Choice and Welfare, among others. He has also served as director of Spanish Economic Review and on the boards of other journals, such as Econometrica, Games and Economic Behavior, Mathematical Social Sciences and Journal of Public Economic Theory.

Prof. Barberà is past-President of the Social Choice and Welfare Society and of the Association of the Southern European Economic Theorists (ASSET). He has been elected to the Council of different learned societies, including the Econometric Society, the Social Choice and Welfare Society, the Game Theory Society, and the Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory.

He served as General Secretary of Research and Technological Policies in the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science (2004-2006). Prior to that, between 2000 and 2004, he was the first director of the Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA), a foundation created by the Catalan Government in order to consolidate in Catalonia a group of high-level scientists of all origins. He has also served on the board of the BSE, as Vice-Chairman and Secretary, in different periods.