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UFAE/UAB Annual Report 2014

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UFAE

Fonaments de

l’Anàlisi Econòmica

Annual Report 2014

Memòria d’Activitats 2014

Memoria de Actividades 2014


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PUBLISHED OR FORTHCOMING ARTICLES Ballester, Miguel Ángel Apesteguia, Jose and Miguel Angel Ballester, "A measure of Rationality and Welfare", Journal of Political Economy, forthcoming. Apesteguia, Jose, Miguel Angel Ballester and Yusufcan Masatlioglu, "A Foundation for Strategic Agenda Voting", Games and Economic Behavior, 87, 91‐99.

Beviá, Carmen Bevia, Carmen and Luis Corchon, "Relative Difference Contest Success Function", Theory and Decision, DOI:10.1007/s11238‐014‐9425‐4

Caballé, Jordi

Alonso‐Carrera, Jaime, Jordi Caballe and Xavier Raurich, "Consumption Composition and

Macroeconomic Dynamics", B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics (Advances), forthcoming. Caballe, Jordi and Ana I. Moro‐Egido, "The Effect of Aspirations and Habits on the Distribution of Wealth", Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 116, 1012‐1043.

Calsamiglia, Caterina Brown, Donald J. and Caterina Calsamiglia, "Alfred Marshall's Cardinal Theory of Value: The Strong Law of Demand", Economic Theory Bulletin, 2, 65‐76.

Choi, Sekyu Choi, Sekyu, Alexandre Janiak and Benjamin Villena‐Roldan, "Unemployment, Participation and WorkerFlows over the Life‐Cycle", The Economic Journal, forthcoming.

Creel, Michael Creel, Michael and Dennis Kristensen, "ABC of SV: Limited Information Likelihood Inference in

Stochastic Volatility Jump‐Diffusion Models", Journal of Empirical Finance, forthcoming.

De Giorgi, Giacomo De Giorgi, Giacomo and Michele Pellizzari, "Understanding Social Interactions: Evidence from the Classroom", The Economic Journal, 124, 917‐953.

Gambetti, Luca Gali, Jordi and Luca Gambetti, "The Effects of Monetary Policy on Stock Market Bubbles: SomeEvidence", American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, forthcoming. Forni, Mario and Luca Gambetti, "Sufficient Information in Structural VARs", Journal of Monetary Economics, 66, 124‐136. Forni, Mario, Luca Gambetti and Luca Sala, "No News in Business Cycles", The Economic Journal, 124, 1168–1191.


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Guner, Nezih Cosar, Kerem A., Nezih Guner and James Tybout, "Firm Dynamics, Job Turnover, and Wage Inequality in an Open Economy", American Economic Review, forthcoming. Guner, Nezih , "Gary Becker's Legacy on Intergenerational Mobility", Journal of DemographicEconomics, forthcoming. Fernandez‐Villaverde, Jesus, Jeremy Greenwood and Nezih Guner, "From Shame to Game in One Hundred Years: An Economics Model of the Rise in Premarital Sex and its De‐Stigmatization", Journal of the European Economic Association, 12, 25‐61. Greenwood, Jeremy, Nezih Guner, Georgi Kocharkov and Cezar Santos, "Marry Your Like: Assortative Mating and Income Inequality", American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, 105, 348‐353. Guner, Nezih , Ezgi Kaya and Virginia Sanchez‐Marcos, "Gender Gap in Spain: Policies and Outcomes over the Last Three Decades", SERIEs (The Journal of Spanish Economic Association), 5, 61‐103.

Macho‐Stadler, Inés Macho‐Stadler, Ines, David Perez‐Castrillo and Nicolas Porteiro, "Coexistence of Long‐term and Short‐term Contracts", Games and Economic Behavior, 86, 145‐164. Freitas, Antonio and Ines Macho‐Stadler, "On the Joint Production of Research and Training", Portuguese Economic Journal, 13, 71‐94. Macho‐Stadler, Ines and David Perez‐Castrillo, "Copyright Licensing under Asymmetric Information", Review of Economic Research on Copyright, Issue 2. Martínez‐Giralt, Xavier Martinez‐Giralt, Xavier and Pedro Pita Barros, "Technological Adoption in Health Care ‐ The Role of Payment Systems", The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy ‐ Contributions, forthcoming. Martínez‐Legaz, Juan Enrique Martinez‐Legaz, Juan Enrique, Jose Vicente Perez and Michel Volle, "Duality for Closed ConvexFunctions and Evenly Convex Functions", Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, DOI 10.1007/s10957‐013‐0395‐4. Bonenti, Francesca and Juan Enrique Martinez‐Legaz, "On the Existence of a Saddle Value", Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, DOI10.1007/s10957‐014‐0665‐9. Martinez‐Legaz, Juan Enrique, "Optimality Conditions for Pseudoconvex Minimization over Convex SetsDefined by Tangentially Convex Constraints", Optimization Letters, DOI 10.1007/s11590‐014‐0822‐y Martinez‐Legaz, Juan Enrique and Marco Rocco, "On a Surjectivity‐Type Property for MaximalMonotone Operators", Pacific Journal of Optimization, forthcoming. Martinez‐Legaz, Juan Enrique and Antoine Soubeyran, "Convergence in a Sequential Two StagesDecision Making Process", Bulletin of the Iranian Mathematical Society, forthcoming. Martinez‐Legaz, Juan Enrique, Maxim Ivanov Todorov and Carlos Armando Zetina, "γ‐Active Constraints in Convex Semi‐Infinite Programming", Numerical Functional Analysis and Optimization, 35, 1078–1094. Bueno, Orestes, Juan Enrique Martinez‐Legaz and Benar Fux Svaiter, "On the Monotone Polar and Representable Closures of Monotone Operators", Journal of Convex Analysis, 21, 495–505. Iusem, Alfredo Noel, Juan Enrique Martinez‐Legaz and Maxim Ivanov Todorov, "Motzkin Predecomposable Sets", Journal of Global Optimimization, 60, 635–647.


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Martinez‐Legaz, Juan Enrique, "Integration of the Fenchel Subdifferentials Revisited", Vietnam Journal of Mathematics, 42, no. 4, 533‐542.

Massó, Jordi Ehlers, Lars and Jordi Masso, "Matching Markets under (In)complete Information", Journal of Economic Theory, forthcoming. Bergantiños, Gustavo, Jordi Masso, Ines Moreno de Barreda and Alejandro Neme, "Stable Partitions in Many Division Problems: The Proportional and the Sequential Dictator Solutions", Theory and Decision, forthcoming. Bergantiños, Gustavo, Jordi Masso and Alejandro Neme, "The Division Problem under Constraints",Games and Economic Behavior, forthcoming. Masso, Jordi, Antonio Nicolo, Arunava Sen, Tradib Sharma and Levent Ülkü, "On Equal Cost Sharing in the Provision of a Binary and Excludable Public Good", Journal of Economic Theory, forthcoming. Masso, Jordi and Alejandro Neme, "On Cooperative Solutions of a Generalized Assignment Game: Limit Theorems to the Set of Competitive Equilibria", Journal of Economic Theory, 154, 185‐215. Arribillaga, Pablo, Jordi Masso and Alejandro Neme, "On the Structure of Cooperative and Competitive Solutions for a Generalized Assignment Game", Journal of Applied Mathematics, Article ID‐190614, 20 pages.

Olivella, Pau McFadden, Daniel, Carlos Noton and Pau Olivella, "Minimum Coverage Regulation in Insurance Markets", SERIEs (The Journal of Spanish Economic Association), forthcoming. Olivella, Pau and Fred Schroyen, "Multidimensional Screening in a Monopolistic Insurance Market", The Geneva Risk and Insurance Review, 39, 90‐130.

Pérez‐Castrillo, David Guo, Bing, Yun Lou and David Perez‐Castrillo, "Optimal Investment and Exiting Strategy for CVC and

IVC Backed Spin‐offs", Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, forthcoming. Macho‐Stadler, Ines, David Perez‐Castrillo and Nicolas Porteiro, "Coexistence of Long‐term and Short‐term Contracts", Games and Economic Behavior, 86, 145‐164. Macho‐Stadler, Ines and David Perez‐Castrillo, "Copyright Licensing under Asymmetric Information", Review of Economic Research on Copyright, Issue 2.

Raymond, Josep Lluís

Matas, Anna, Josep Lluis Raymond and Jose Luis Roig, "Wages and Accessibility: The Impact of

Transport Infrastructure", Regional Studies, forthcoming. Costa, Alex, Jaume Garcia and Josep Lluis Raymond, "Are all Quality Dimensions of Equal Importance

when Measuring the Perceived Quality of Official Statistics? Evidence from Spain", Journal of Official Statistics, nº 3, 547‐562. Matas, Anna, Josep Lluis Raymond and Jose Luis Roig, "La Inversió en Infrastructures a Espanya i els Objectius d’Eficiència i Equitat", Revista Econòmica de Catalunya, nº 70, 60‐70. Garcia, Gustavo, Josep Lluis Raymond and Jose Luis Roig, "Distribución de la Renta y Ciclo Económico:

España 2003‐2011", Investigaciones Regionales, 30, 53‐77.


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Rey‐Biel, Pedro Gneezy, Uri and Pedro Rey‐Biel, "On the Relative Efficiency of Performance Pay and Non Contingent

Incentives", Journal of the European Economic Association, 12, 62‐72.

Salinas, Paula Hortas‐Rico, Miriam and Paula Salinas, "Determinación de la Escala Mínima Eficiente en la Provisión de

Bienes Públicos Locales", Revista de Economía Aplicada, 66, 35‐65.

Sorolla, Valeri Garcia, Jose Ramon and Valeri Sorolla, "Monopolistic Competition and Different Wage Setting Systems", Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 61, 48‐77. Raurich, Xavier and Valeri Sorolla, "Growth, Unemployment and Wage Inertia", Journal of Macroeconomics, 40, 42‐59.

BOOKS OR BOOKS CHAPTERS

Márquez, M. Dolors

Fernandez Fernandez, Idoia and M. Dolors Marquez, "¿Formación Docente o Desarrollo Educacional?

Situación Actual y Tendencias Emergentes en las Universidades del Estado Español", Carles Monereo Coord., Enseñando a Enseñar en la Universidad, Octaedro, Chapter 9. Feixas, Monica, M. Dolors Marquez and Sarai Sabate Diaz, "Experiencia de Evaluación de la Transferencia de la Formación del Profesorado Universitario", Cano, Elena y Bartolomé, Antonio (eds.), Evaluar la Formación es Posible, Colección Transmedia XXI, Chapter 3.

Martínez‐Giralt, Xavier Martinez Giralt, Xavier, "The Preferred‐provider Market", in A. Culyer (ed.), Encyclopedia of Health Economics, Volume 3, San Diego, CA, USA, Elsevier.[ISBN: 978‐0‐12‐375678‐7].

Olivella, Pau Olivella, Pau and Pedro Pita Barros, "Markets in Health Care", in A. Culyer (ed.), Encyclopedia of Health

Economics, Volume 2, San Diego, CA, USA, Elsevier: doi:10.1016/B978‐0‐12‐375678‐7.01301‐8.

WORKING PAPERS

Barberà, Salvador Barbera, Salvador, Carmen Bevia and Clara Ponsati, "Meritocracy, Egalitarianism and the Stability of Majoritarian Organizations", WP Social Science Research Network‐id2275851 and WP 737 Barcelona GSE. Barbera, Salvador and Anke Gerber, "Sequential Voting and Agenda Manipulation", WP Social Science Research Network ‐id2483329 and WP 782 Barcelona GSE. Barbera, Salvador and Alejandro Neme, "Ordinal Relative Satisficing Behavior", WP Social Science Research Network ‐id2497947 and WP 790 Barcelona GSE. Barbera, Salvador, Dolors Berga and Bernardo Moreno, "Group Strategy‐proofness in Private Good


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Economies without Money: Matching, Division and House Allocation", WP Social Science Research Network ‐id2467988 and WP 773 Barcelona GSE. Barbera, Salvador, Dolors Berga and Bernardo Moreno, "Group Strategy‐proofness in Private Good Economies", WP Social Science Research Network ‐id2540583 and WP 801 Barcelona GSE.

Beviá, Carmen Barbera, Salvador, Carmen Bevia and Clara Ponsati, "Meritocracy, Egalitarianism and the Stability of Majoritarian Organizations", WP Social Science Research Network ‐id2275851 and WP 737 Barcelona GSE. Bevia, Carmen and Luis Corchon, "Dynamic Contests with Bankruptcy: The Despair Effect", WP Social Science Research Network ‐id2423786.

Calsamiglia, Caterina Calsamiglia, Caterina, Francisco Martinez‐Mora and Antonio Miralles, "School Choice Mechanisms, Peer Effects and Sorting", Discussion Paper in Economics 15/01 University of Leicester. Calsamiglia, Caterina and Antonio Miralles, "Catchment Areas and Access to Better Schools", WP 631 Barcelona GSE. Calsamiglia, Caterina and Maia Güell, "The Illusion of Choice: Evidence from Barcelona", WP 810Barcelona GSE, CEPR Discussion Paper 10011. Calsamiglia, Caterina, Chao Fu and Maia Güell, "Structural Estimation of a Model of School Choices: Boston vs. Its Alternatives", WP 811 Barcelona GSE. Azmat, Ghazala, Caterina Calsamiglia and Nagore Iriberri, "Gender Differences in Responses to Big Stakes", CEP Discussion Papers, CEPDP1314.

Costas, Elena Costas‐Perez, Elena, "Political Corruption on Turnout: Mobilization or Disaffection?", Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB) Working Paper 2014/27.

Choi, Sekyu Choi, Sekyu and Javier Fernandez‐Blanco, "Worker Turnover and Non‐employment Insurance", Mimeo.

Creel, Michael Creel, Michael and Dennis Kristensen, "ABC of SV: Limited Information Likelihood Inference in Stochastic Volatility Jump‐Diffusion Models", CREATES Research Papers, 14‐30.

Fernández‐Blanco, Javier Choi, Sekyu and Javier Fernandez‐Blanco, "Worker Turnover and Non‐employment Insurance", Mimeo.

Guner, Nezih Eeckhout, Jan and Nezih Guner, "Optimal Spatial Taxation: Are Big Cities too Small?", WP 804 Barcelona GSE. Guner, Nezih, Yuliya Kulikova and Joan Llull, "Does Marriage Make You Healthier?", WP 795 Barcelona GSE. Guner, Nezih, Martin Lopez‐Daneri and Gustavo Ventura, "Heterogeneity and Government Revenues:


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Higher Taxes at the Top?", IZA Discussion Papers 8335. Guner, Nezih, Remzi Kaygusuz and Gustavo Ventura, "Childcare Subsidies and Household Labor Supply", IZA Discussion Papers 8303.

Lull, Joan Llull, Joan, "The Effect of Immigration on Wages: Exploiting Exogenous Variation at the National Level", WP 783 Barcelona GSE. Llull, Joan, "The Effect of Immigration on Wages: Exploiting Exogenous Variation at the National Level", CReAM Discussion Paper 36/14. Guner, Nezih, Yuliya Kulikova and Joan Llull, "Does Marriage Make You Healthier? ", WP 795 Barcelona GSE. Macho‐Stadler, Inés Banal‐Estañol, Albert, Ines Macho‐Stadler and David Perez‐Castrillo, "Endogeneous Matching in

University‐Industry Collaboration", WP 704 Barcelona GSE. Diamantoudi, Efrosyni, Ines Macho‐Stadler, David Perez‐Castrillo and Licun Xue, "Sharing the Surplus in Games with Externalities within and Across Issues", WP 569 Barcelona GSE.

Massó, Jordi

Arribillaga, Pablo and Jordi Masso, "Comparing Generalized Median Voter Schemes According to their Manipulability", WP753 Barcelona GSE. Arribillaga, Pablo and Jordi Masso, "Comparing Generalized Median Voter Schemes According to their Manipulability", UFAE and IAE WP 946.14.

Miralles, Antonio Calsamiglia, Caterina, Francisco Martinez‐Mora and Antonio Miralles, "School Choice Mechanisms, Peer Effects and Sorting", Discussion Paper in Economics 15/01 University of Leicester. Calsamiglia, Caterina, and Antonio Miralles, "Catchment Areas and Access to Better Schools", WP 631 Barcelona GSE.

Pérez‐Castrillo, David Perez Castrillo, David and Marilda Sotomayor, "Two Folk Manipulability Theorems in the General One‐

to‐one two‐side two‐sided Matching Markets with Money", WP 681 Barcelona GSE. Perez Castrillo, David and David Wettstein, "Innovation Contests", WP 654 Barcelona GSE. Banal‐Estañol, Albert, Ines Macho‐Stadler and David Perez‐Castrillo, "Endogeneous Matching in

University‐Industry Collaboration", WP 704 Barcelona GSE. Diamantoudi, Efrosyni, Ines Macho‐Stadler, David Perez‐Castrillo and Licun Xue, "Sharing the Surplus in Games with Externalities within and Across Issues", WP 569 Barcelona GSE.

Raymond, Josep Lluís Di Paolo, Antonio, Anna Matas and Josep Lluis Raymond, "Job Accessibility, Employment and Job‐Education Mismatch in the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona", AQR Working Papers, Universitat de Barcelona, Regional Quantitative Analysis Group.


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Salinas, Paula

Salinas, Paula, "The Effect of Decentralization on Educational Outcomes: Real Autonomy Matters!", IEB WP 2014/25.

Sorolla, Valeri Sorolla, Valeri, "The Long Run Effect of Growth on Employment in a Labor Market with Matching Frictions: The Role of Labor Market Institutions", UFAE and IAE WP 949.14.

GRANTS AND AWARDS Barberà, Salvador Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación Proyecto investigación de I+D+i Institutional Design and Good Governmental Practice: Theory, Applications and Simulations. Caballé, Jordi Ministerio de Economía y CompetitividadPlan Nacional I+D+i The Fluctuations in the Labor Market and the Effects of Macroeconomic Policy. Generalitat de Catalunya SGR‐Grup de Recerca Consolidat Macroeconomic Analysis Group. La Caixa RecerCaixa (La Caixa‐ACUP) Inequality, Social Mobility, Effort and Education.

Choi, Sekyu Barcelona GSE Seed Grant Biased Technological Shocks and Internal US Migration.

Guner, Nezih Ministerio de Economía y CompetitividadProyectos Explora Health and Marriage: Are Married Individuals Healthier? Why?

Macho‐Stadler, Inés

Ministerio de Economía y CompetitividadPlan Nacional I+D+i Instituciones, incentivos y comportamiento en salud, innovación y formación.


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Massó, Jordi Generalitat de Catalunya SGR‐Grup de Recerca Consolidat Coalicions, incentius, xarxes i racionalitat en la presa de decisions col∙lectives.

Martínez‐Legaz, Juan Enrique Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación Proyectos de Investigación Fundamental No Orientada 2011 Variational Optimization: Structure and Duality.

Pérez‐Castrillo, David

Generalitat de Catalunya SGR‐Grup de Recerca Consolidat

Rey‐Biel, Pedro Cannes Lions Pay per Laugh. Barcelona GSE Seed Grant Pay per Laugh.

Rodríguez‐Barraquer, Tomás European CommissionMarie Curie IF Peer Effects and Endogenous Network Formation. Others SEED Grant Peer Effects and Endogenous Network Formation.

GRADUATE ADVISING Choi, Sekyu Arnau Valladares‐Esteban

"Essays on Labor Market Dynamics and Policies" University of Southampton, UK Guner, Nezih Ezgi Kaya

"Women in the Labor Market: Wages, Labor Supply and Fertility Decision" Cardiff Business School, UK Christopher Rauh

"Essays on Inequality and Intergenerational Mobility" University of Cambridge, UK


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Arnau Valladares‐Esteban

"Essays on Labor Market Dynamics and Policies" University of Southampton, UK

Raymond, Josep Lluís

Lina Gómez Rivera

"Tres ensayos sobre eficiencia económica y crecimiento regional: Capacidad empresarial,

externalidades y eficiencia productiva" Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain John Fredy Ariza

"Essays on Wage Inequality in Developing Countries" Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain

ACADEMIC AND RESEARCH VISITS Ballester, Miguel Ángel University of Sabanci Department of Economics Istanbul, Turkey One Week University of St. Andrews Department of Economics St. Andrews, Scotland One Week

Barberà, Salvador Institute of Applied Economic Research (IPEA)Rio do Janeiro, Brazil Two Weeks Stanford University Department of Economics Stanford, USA Two Weeks

Choi, Sekyu Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Research Chicago, IL USA One Week

Macho‐Stadler, Inés UPV‐EHU Department of Economics Bilbao, Spain Two Weeks Université de Bordeaux


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Department of Economics Bordeaux, France Three Weeks

Márquez, M. Dolors Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya Estadística i Investigació Operativa Barcelona, Spain Five Months

Martínez‐Legaz, Juan Enrique Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Dipartimento di Metodi Quantitativi Brescia, Italy Two Weeks National Taiwan Normal University Department of Mathematics Taipei, Taiwan One Week Anadolu University Department of Industrial Engineering Eskişehir, Turkey One Week

Miralles, Antonio University of California Los Angeles Department of Economics Los Angeles, CA, USA Two Months Olivella, Pau University College London Field work India (Patna and Begusarai) One Week Pérez‐Castrillo, David UPV‐EHU Department of Economics Bilbao, Spain Two Weeks Université de BordeauxDepartment of Economics Bordeaux, France Three Weeks


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Rey‐Biel, Pedro Rady School of Management, UCSD San Diego, CA, USA Three Months CONFERENCE AND WORKSHOP PRESENTATIONS Ballester, Miguel Ángel Social Choice and Welfare Boston, USA June Barberà, Salvador Workshop on Economic Decisions. Social Equilibrium and Economic Decision (SEED) A Workshop to Celebrate Jorge Nieto’s 65th Birthday Pamplona, Spain February Second MOVE‐ISER Workshop Bellaterra, Spain March Acto de presentación de la Escuela de Doctorado de la Universidad Pública de Navarra y de apadrinamiento de sus nuevos doctores Pamplona, Spain June 9th Tinbergen Institute Conference: 70 years Theory of Games and Economic Behaviour Amsterdam, The Netherlands June 12th Meeting of the Society for Social Choice and WelfareBoston, USA June International Workshop on Game Theory and Economic Applications of the Game Theory Society‐IWGTS Celebrating the 70th birthday of Marilda Sotomayor Sao Paulo, Brazil July Workshop on Game Theory, FGV‐EPGE Rio do Janeiro, Brazil August The SITE Summer Workshop. Session 5: "The Dynamics of Collective Decision Making" Stanford, USA August 29th Annual Congress of the European Economic Association (EEA)Toulouse, France August 68th Econometric Society European Meeting (ESEM)Toulouse, France


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August ASSET Meeting Aix‐en‐Provence, France November 39th Simposium of the Spanish Economic AssociationPalma de Mallorca, Spain December

Beviá, Carmen The European Public Choice Society Meeting 2014Cambridge, UK April Conference on Axioms, Results and Methods in Normative EconomicsGranada, Spain May Oligo Workshop 2014 Rome, Italy June 12th Meeting of the Society for Social Choice and WelfareBoston, USA June Public Economic Theory meeting Seatle, USA July

Caballé, Jordi 39th Simposium of the Spanish Economic AssociationPalma de Mallorca, Spain December Calsamiglia, Caterina

WZB Matching in Markets Berlin, Germany August WZB Matching in Markets Chicago, USA October

Choi, Sekyu 2nd Mannheim Workshop In Quantitative MacroeconomicsMannheim, Germany May SED 2014 Toronto, Canada June NBER Summer InstituteCambridge, MA, USA


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July IX REDg DGEM Workshop Madrid, Spain September

Costas, Elena BGSE Winter MeetingsBarcelona, Spain December Guner, Nezih 23rd CEPR European Summer Symposium in International Macroeconomics (ESSIM) Tarragona, Spain May 2nd BGSE Summer Forum Workshop on Macro and Micro Perspectives on Taxation Barcelona, Spain June NBER Summer Institute Macroeconomics and Productivity WorkshopBoston, USA July 29th Annual Congress of the European Economic Association (EEA)Toulouse, France August IX REDg ‐ Dynamic General Equilibrium Macroeconomics WorkshopMadrid, Spain September 8th Louvain Symposium in Economic DynamicsLouvain‐la‐Neuve, Belgium September 39th Simposium of the Spanish Economic AssociationPalma de Mallorca, Spain December

Fernández‐Blanco, Javier Mainz Workshop in Labour Economics Mainz, Germany October SaM Essex Essex, UK November BGSE Winter MeetingsBarcelona, Spain December

Fiedler, Angela Search and Matching Annual ConferenceEdinburgh, UK


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May 29th Annual Congress of the European Economic Association (EEA)Toulouse, France August BGSE Economics Trobada XII Barcelona, Spain October BGSE Winter MeetingsBarcelona, Spain December

Gierlinger, Johannes Foundations of Utility and Risk Rotterdam, The Netherlands June 29th Annual Congress of the European Economic Association (EEA)Toulouse, France August BGSE Winter MeetingsBarcelona, Spain December

Llull, Joan ENTER Jamboree Stockholm, Sweden March Barcelona GSE Summer Forum: Children's Health, Well‐being, and Human CapitalBarcelona, Spain, June 29th Annual Congress of the European Economic Association (EEA)Toulouse, France August 39th Simposium of the Spanish Economic AssociationPalma de Mallorca, Spain December BGSE Winter MeetingsBarcelona, Spain December


Applied Microeconomics CesIFO Munich, Germany March 70th Years Theory of Games and Economic BehaviorAmsterdam, The Nederlands June International Workshop on Game Theory and Economic Applications of The Game Theory Society,


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celebrating the 70th birthday of Marilda SotomayorSao Paulo, Brazil July Satellite Workshop on Game Theory Rio do Janeiro, Brazil August

Martínez‐Legaz, Juan Enrique International Workshop and Summer School on Variational Analysis and Ap‐Hanoi, Vietnam May 6th Seminar on Optimization and Variational AnalysisElche, Spain June The Fifth Annual Meeting of the “Lebanese Society for the Mathematical Sci‐Beirut, Lebanon June Summer Workshop in Economic Theory S W E T Paris, France June 12th EUROPT Workshop on Advances in Continuous OptimizationPerpignan, France July The Fourth Latin American Workshop on Optimization and Control – LAWOCLima, Peru July ICM Satellite Conference 2014: The Fourth Asian Conference on NonlinearAnalysis and Optimization Taipei, Taiwan August III Colóquio de Matemática da Região NorteManaus, Brazil October Journées Annuelles du GdR MOA Limoges, France December

Miralles, Antonio 7th Workshop Matching in Practice Berlin, Germany June 39th Simposium of the Spanish Economic AssociationPalma de Mallorca, Spain December BGSE Winter MeetingsBarcelona, Spain December


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Applied Microeconomics CesIFO Munich, Germany March Workshop Game TheoryBordeaux, France May CERCI Annual CongressBarcelona, Spain July International Workshop on Game Theory and Economic Applications of The Game Theory Society, celebrating the 70th birthday of Marilda Sotomayor Sao Paulo, Brazil July Satellite workshop on Game Theory Rio do Janeiro, Brazil August Jornadas de Economía Industrial 2014 Barcelona, Spain September

Rodríguez‐Barraquer, Tomás CTN Workshop Brussels, Belgium February Social Choice WorkshopBarcelona, Spain May Association for Public Economic Theory Seattle, USA July BGSE Winter MeetingsBarcelona, Spain December

Salinas, Paula XXI Encuentro de Economía Pública Girona, Spain January PhD Workshop at the Barcelona Institute of EconomicsBarcelona, Spain January


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SEMINARS Ballester, Miguel Ángel University of Sabanci Istanbul, Turkey University of St. Andrews St. Andrews, Scotland

Barberà, Salvador Institute of Applied Economic Research (IPEA)Rio do Janeiro, Brazil CORE‐Université Catholique de Louvain.Louvain‐la‐Neuve, Belgiun Barcelona Jocs SeminarBarcelona, Spain

Beviá, Carmen Universidad de AlicanteAlicante, Spain Universidad de Salamanca Salamanca, Spain

Choi, Sekyu Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Chicago, IL, USA Costas, Elena Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona, Spain Guner, Nezih University of MannheimMannheim, Germany University of Koeln Koeln, Germany Banco de España Madrid, Spain

Llull, Joan University of Southampton Southampton, UK


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Universidad de Salamanca Salamanca, Spain Université de BordeauxBordeaux, France Universidad del Pais Vasco Bilbao, Spain Universidade Federal Fluminense Rio do Janeiro, Brazil

Martínez‐Legaz, Juan Enrique Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Brescia, Italy National Taiwan Normal University Taipei, Taiwan Anadolu University Eskişehir, Turkey

Miralles, Antonio University of California Berkeley Berkeley, CA, USA California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA, USA University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA, USA

Pérez‐Castrillo, David Universidad Pablo de Olavide Sevilla, Spain Universidad de Salamanca Salamanca, Spain Universidad del Pais Vasco Bilbao, Spain Universidade Federal Fluminense Rio do Janeiro, Brazil Universidad Carlos III de Madrid Madrid, Spain Université de BordeauxBordeaux, France

Rey‐Biel, Pedro Universitat Rovira i Virgili Tarragona, Spain Universitat de Barcelona


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Barcelona, Spain Rady School of Management, UCSD San Diego, USA

INVITED SEMINARS Applied Economics

Jeffrey R. Campbell (joint with Zvi Hercowitz)Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago "Liquidity Constraints of the Middle Class" Thierry Magnac Toulouse School of Economics "College Choice Allocation Mechanisms: Structural Estimates and Counterfactuals" Torsten Persson IIES ‐ Stockholm University "Norms, Enforcement and Tax Evasion" Christopher WoodruffUniversity of Warwick "Managerial Capital and Productivity: Evidence from a Training Program in the Bangladeshi Garment Sector" Alessandro Gavazza London School of Economics "A Quantitative Analysis of the Retail Market for Illicit Drugs" Magne Mogstad University of Chicago "Field of Study, Earnings, and Self‐Selection" David Card (joint wtih Ana Rute Cardoso and Patrick Kline)University of California, Berkeley "Bargaining, Sorting and the Gender Wage Gap: The Role of Firms in the Relative Pay of Women" Erich French University College London "The Effect of Disability Insurance Receipt on Labor Supply: a Dynamic Analysis" Gordon Dahl University of California ‐ San Diego "Do Politicians Change Public Attitudes?" Ulrich Wagner (joint with Sebastian Petrick)Universidad Carlos III de Madrid "The Impact of Carbon Trading on Industry: Evidence from German Manufacturing Firms" Conrad Burchardi (joint with S. Gulesci, B. Lerva and M. Sulaiman)IESS ‐ Stockholm University "Moral Hazard: Experimental Evidence from Tenancy Contracts" Aureo de Paula (joint with Dennis Kristensen and Lars Nesheim)University College London "CCP and the Estimation of Nonseparable Dynamic Models"


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Macroeconomics

Johanna Wallenius (joint with Tobias Laun)Stockholm School of Economics "Social Insurance and Retirement: A Cross‐Country Perspective" Giorgio Primiceri Northwestern University "Credit Supply and the Housing Boom" Pontus Rendahl Cambridge University "Fiscal Policy in an Unemployment Crisis" Árpád Ábrahám European University Institute "The Effects of Moral Hazard on Wage Inequality in a Frictional Labor Market" Xavier Ragot Paris School of Economics "Money, Limited Participation and Heterogeneity: An Alternative View of Monetary Policy" Martin Ellison (joint with Charles Brendon)Oxford University "Time‐consistent Institutional Design" Yang K. Lu HKUST "The Power of Whispers: A Theory of Rumor, Communication and Revolution" Jeremy Lise (joint with Jean‐Marc Robin)University College London "The Macro‐dynamics of Sorting between Workers and Firms" Thomas Palfrey (joint with Marina Agranov)California Institute of Technology "Equilibrium Tax Rates and Income Redistribution: A Laboratory Study" Michael Reiter IHS – Vienna "Computing OLG Models with Asset Choice" Manolis Galenianos Royal Holloway, University of London "Worker Heterogeneity and Endogenous Referral Networks" Neil Wallace Pennsylvania State "Optima in Heterogeneous‐agent Monetary Economies" Kurt Mitman (joint with Stanislav Rabinovich)IIES "Do Unemployment Benefits Explain the Emergence of Jobless Recoveries?" Sandra Eickmeier (joint with Julia von Borstel and Leo Krippner)Bundesbank "The Interest Rate Pass‐through in the Euro Area before and During the Sovereign Debt Crisis" Nicola Pavoni (joint with Piero Gottardi)Università L. Bocconi "Ramsey Asset Taxation with Asymmetric Information" Mariacristina de NardiUniversity College London


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"Medicare Insurance in Old Age" Morris A. Davis (joint with Erwan Quintin) Rutgers Business School "Default when Current House Prices are Uncertain" Pedro Teles (joint with Gaston Navarro and Juan Pablo Nicolini)Banco de Portugal "Sovereign Default: The Role of Expectations" Franck Portier (joint with Paul Beaudry and Dana Galizia)Toulouse School of Economics "Reconciling Hayek’s and Keynes Views of Recessions"

Microeconomics

Mar Reguant Stanford GSB "Strategic Bidding in Sequential Markets: The Case of Wind Farms" Glenn Ellison (joint with Sara Fisher Ellison)Massachusetts Institute of Technology "Match Quality, Search, and the Internet Market for Used Books" Faruk Gul (joint with Wolfgang Pesendorfer)Princeton University "Calibrated Uncertainty" Larry Samuelson (joint with G. Nöldeke)Yale University "Investment and Comptitive Matching" Alessandro Bonatti (joint with Heikki Rantakari)Massachusetts Institute of Technology "The Politics of Compromise" Tomasz Strzalecki Harvard University "Coarse Competitive Equilibrium and Extreme Prices" Mark Armstrong (joint with Jidong Zhou)University of Oxford "Search Deterrence" David Dillenberger (joint with Uzi Segal)University of Pennsylvania "Skewed Noise" Muriel Niederle (joint with Daniel E. Fragiadakis and Daniel T. Knoepfle)Stanford University "Identifying Predictable Players: Relating Behavioral Types and Subjects with Deterministic Rules" Jeanne Hagenbach (joint with E. Perez‐Richet)CNRS‐École Polytechnique "Communication with Evidence in the Lab" Benjamin Golub (joint with Matthew Elliott)Harvard University "A Network Approach to Public Goods"


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Internal Workshop: Applied Economics

Andrew Griffen University of Tokyo "Height and Calories in Early Childhood" Hannes Schwandt (joint with Janet Currie) Princeton University "Seasonal Patterns in Health at Birth‐ and Why Flu Could Be to Blame" Christian Staat ECARES "Does Better Pay Attract Better Politicians?"

Internal Workshop: Macroeconomics

Martí Mestieri Toulouse School of Economics "Human Capital Acquisition and Occupational Choice: Implications for Growth and Inequality" Ewa Lazarczyk Stockholm School of Economics "Strategic Withholding Through Production Failures" Juan Equiza Université Libre de Bruxelles "Endogenous Public Purchases and Growth Expectations" Tim Schmidt‐EisenlohrUniversity of Illinois "Payment Choice in International Trade: Theory and Evidence from Cross‐country Firm Level Data" Lorenza Rossi University of Pavia "Endogenous Firms Dynamics and Banking" Raffaele Rossi Lancaster University "Time‐Consistent Consumption Taxation" Claustre Bajona (joint with Paul Missios and Andrea Pierce)Ryerson University "Trade and the Environment with Heterogeneous Firms" Angela Fiedler Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona "A General Equilibrium Perspective on US Wage Inequality" Oriol Carreras London School of Economics "Skill Mismatch in Dual Labour Markets" Juan Rubio‐Ramírez Duke University "What are the Effects of Monetary Policy on Output? Results from an Agnostic but Systematic Identification Procedure" Juan Rubio‐Ramírez Duke University "Precautionary Saving and Aggregate Demand" Sekyu Choi (joint with Javier Fernández‐Blanco)Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona


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"Unemployment Duration and Worker Turnover" Alessandra Bonfiglioli (joint with Gino Gancia)Universitat Pompeu Fabra "Heterogeneity, Selection and Labor Marker Disparities" Ignacio Monzón (joint with Cristian Bartolucci) Collegio Carlo Alberto "Bargaining Leads to Sorting: A Model of Bilateral On‐the‐Match Search" François de Soyres Toulouse School of Economics "Trade and Interdependence: the Input‐Output Channel" Regis Barnichon (joint with Christian Matthes)CREI "Measuring the Non‐Linear Effects of Monetary Policy"

Internal Workshop: Social Choice & Game Theory

Christian Seel Maastricht University "The Value of Information in Asymmetric All‐Pay Auctions" Justin Tumlinson CESifo "Adverse Selection in Team Formation Under Discrimination" Nick Baigent University of Graz "Aggregate Violence: Concept and Measurement" Renè Kirkegaard University of Guelph "Incentive Compatibility and Comparative Statics without the First‐Order Approach" Walter Bossert (joint with Kotaro Suzumura)University of Montréal "Expected Utility without full Transitivity" Jan Zapal (joint with Renee Bowen, Ying Chen and Hulya Eraslan)IAE‐CSIC "Efficiency of Mandatory and Discretionary Spending" Francesco Cerigioni Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona "Between Simon (S1) and Samuelson (S2): A Model of Analogical and Analytical Thinking" Nizar Allouch Queen Mary University of London "The Cost of Segregation in Social Networks" Antonio Miralles Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona "Welfare‐maximizing Assignment of Agents to Hierarchical Positions" Sergiu Hart Hebrew University of Jerusalem "Two (!) Good to be True" Sandro Shelegia University of Viena "Beliefs, Market Size and Consumer Search"


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Antonio Miralles (joint with Marek Pycia)Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona "Efficiency and Fairness in Assignment Problems (and a Warning on Continuum Approximations)" Muriel Niederle (joint with Daniel E. Fragiadakis and Daniel T. Knoepfle)Stanford University "Identifying Predictable Players: Relating Behavioral Types and Subjects with Deterministic Rules" Noriaki Matsushima Osaka University "Who Benefits from Resale‐below‐cost Laws?"

Student’s Workshop IDEA

Guillem Roig Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona "Competition and the Hold‐up Problem: a Setting with Non‐exclusive Contracts"

PARTICIPATION IN LOCAL AND SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEES OF CONFERENCES Ballester, Miguel Ángel Organizer Bounded Rationality in Choice Barcelona, Spain Barberà, Salvador Member of the Scientific Committee The Fifteenth APET International Conference on Public Economics Theory (PET 14) Seattle, USA Co‐organizer Conference in Honor of Carmen Herrero, Doctora Honoris Causa Universidad de Granada "Axiomas, Resultados y Métodos en Economía Normativa" Granada, Spain

Beviá, Carmen Organizer Workshop on Games in Markets, Organizations and Political Economy Madrid, Spain Member of the Scientific Committee Public Economic Theory meeting Seatle, USA Member of the Scientific Committee Society for Social Choice and Welfare meeting Boston, USA

Caballé, Jordi Member of the Advisory Board Jornada dels Economistes on "Transformacions estratègiques per a l'economia catalana"


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Barcelona, Spain Member of the Scientific Committee VI Jornadas de Docencia en Economía Bilbao, Spain

Esteban, Susanna Co‐organizer Jornadas de Economía Industrial Barcelona, Spain Member of the Scientific Committee Jornadas de Economía Industrial Barcelona, Spain Member of the Scientific Committee 29th European Economic Association Annual Conference Toulouse, France Member of the Scientific Committee Applied Industrial Organization Barcelona, Spain

Guner, Nezih Member of the Local Committee European Economic Association Annual Congress Toulouse, France Llull, Joan Co‐organizer Barcelona GSE Summer Forum Conference: Migration Barcelona, Spain


Co‐organizer Economics of Science and Innovation ‐ Barcelona GSE Summer Forum Barcelona, Spain Member of the Scientific Committee Asociación Española de Economía de la Energía (AEEE) Madrid, Spain Member of the Scientific Committee EARIE Milano, Italy Co‐organizer Session on Innovation Economics, Jornadas de Economía Industrial Barcelona, Spain Member of the Scientific Committee Spanish‐Portuguese Association of Resource and Environmental Economics (AERNA) Girona, Spain


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Márquez, M. Dolors

Member of the Scientific Committee VIII Congrés Internacional de Docència i Innovació CIDUI Tarragona, Spain Martínez‐Legaz, Juan Enrique Member of the Scientific Committee International Workshop and Summer School on Variational Analysis and Ap‐ Hanoi, Vietnam Co‐organizer 12th EUROPT Workshop on Advances in Continuous Optimization Perpignan, France Member of the Scientific Committee The Fourth Asian Conference on Nonlinear Analysis and Optimization Taipei, Taiwan

Miralles, Antonio Member of the Scientific Committee 8th Workshop Matching in Practice Lisbon, Portugal

Olivella, Pau Member of the Scientific Committee 10th World Congress of the iHEA & ECHE Dublin, Ireland Pérez‐Castrillo, David

Co‐organizer Economics of Science and Innovation ‐ Barcelona GSE Summer Forum Barcelona, Spain Co‐organizer Session on Innovation Economics, Jornadas de Economia industrial Barcelona, Spain

Rey‐Biel, Pedro Member of the Local Committee Jornadas de Economía Industrial Barcelona, Spain Co‐organizer Jornadas de Economía Industrial Barcelona, Spain

Vilà, Xavier Organizer 5th Summer School of the European Social Simulation Association


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Cerdanyola del Vallés, Spain Member of the Local Committee Social Simulation Conference: 10th Conference of the European Social Simulation Association Cerdanyola del Vallés, Spain

EDITORIAL ACTIVITIES Barberà, Salvador Associate Editor Games and Economic Behavior Associate Editor Social Choice and Welfare Advisory Board Theoria

Beviá, Carmen Editorial Board Mathematical Social Sciences Editorial Board Law, Ethics and Philosophy (LEAP)

Caballé, Jordi Editorial Board Journal of Macroeconomics Editorial Board Revista Econòmica de Catalunya Associate Editor Portuguese Economics Journal

Calsamiglia, Caterina

Editorial Board Revista de Educación del Ministerio de Educación

Esteban, Susanna Associate Editor SERIEs Journal of the Spanish Economic Association

Guner, Nezih Co‐Editor SERIEs Journal of the Spanish Economic Association Associate Editor Journal of Population Economics


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Associate Editor Journal of Economics & Management Strategy Associate Editor Games and Economic Behavior Associate Editor Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization Associate Editor Revue d’Economie Politique

Massó, Jordi Associate Editor Social Choice and Welfare Associate Editor Economics Bulletin Associate Editor Economics Research International

Martínez‐Legaz, Juan Enrique Editorial Board Optimization Editorial Board Journal of Convex Analysis Editorial Board Journal of Global Optimization Associate Editor TOP Scientific Committee Cuadernos Aragoneses de Economía Editorial Board Set‐Valued and Variational Analysis Theory Associate Editor International Journal of Optimization: Theory, Methods and Applications Associate Editor Taiwanese Journal of Mathematics Associate Editor International Journal of Operations Research Editor PanAmerican Mathematical Journal Associate Editor International Journal of Engineering, Contemporary Mathematics and Sciences Associate Editor Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications Advisory Board


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Caspian Journal of Mathematical Sciences Associate Editor Journal of Information and Optimization Sciences Editorial Board Minimax Theory and its Applications Advisory Board Iranian Journal of Operations Research Invited Editor Special issue of Optimization on recent advances in continuous optimization on the occasion of the 25th European conference on Operational Research (EURO XXV 2012) Co‐editor Lecturas Matemáticas

Olivella, Pau Associate Editor

Journal of Health Economics Co‐Editor

Elsevier Encyclopedia of Health Economics


Associate Editor SERIEs Journal of the Spanish Economic Association Associate Editor International Game Theory Review Associate Editor Journal of Economics & Management Strategy Associate Editor Economics Letters Invited Editor Special Issue in Honor of Marilda Sotomayor Journal of Dynamics and Games

Rey‐Biel, Pedro Associate Editor Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization Editorial Board Journal of Socio‐Economics

COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP AND SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY Ballester, Miguel Ángel Scientific Committee Bounded Rationality in Choice, since 2014


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Barberà, Salvador Council Member Social Choice and Welfare Society, since 1990 Council Member Urrutia Elejalde Foundation, since 1997 Member Alto Consejo Consultivo en Investigación, Desarrollo e Innovación de la Presidencia de la Generalitat Valenciana, since 2008 Jury Calvó‐Armengol International Prize, since 2008 Jury Urrutia Elejalde Diversity Prize (FUE Diversity Prize), since 2010 Member Ethics committee of the Toulouse School of Economics, since 2010 Member Comisión de Economía de los Premios Jaume I , since 2013 Jury External reviewer of the activity report of Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER), since 2013 Member Serra Húnter Programme Advisory Member, since 2013 Elected Member Presidente del Comité de Educación de la Asociación Española de Economía (AEE), since 2014

Caballé, Jordi National Expert ANECA Academia, since 2008 Member Subcomisión de evaluación de la investigación en Ciencias Sociales de la “Agencia per a la Qualitat del Sistema Universitari Català” (AQU), since 2011 Officer Past President of the Spanish Economic Association, since 2014

Esteban, Susanna Scientific Advisory Jornadas de Economía Industrial Macho‐Stadler, Inés

Council Member EARIE, since 2008 Council Member AERNA, since 2012 Council Member ISAC of the BC3


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Council Member Conseil de l’OFCE

Massó, Jordi Council Member Society for Social Choice and Welfare, since 2014

DISSEMINATION AND PUBLIC AWARENESS ACTIVITIES Calsamiglia, Caterina

"The Illusion of Choice: Evidence from Barcelona"Vox EU October Macho‐Stadler, Inés

"Jean Tirole. Premio Nobel de Economía 2014"Conference at the Facultad de Economia y Empresa, UAB October "Coexistencia de contratos de largo y de corto plazo" (ISSN:2014‐6388)UAB Divulga November


Mesa redonda sobre el Premio Nobel a Jean TiroleAEE y Fundación Areces October "Coexistencia de contratos de largo y de corto plazo" (ISSN:2014‐6388)UAB Divulga November Taller: Guia Pràctica per a la sol∙licitud de trams de recercaUniversitat de Barcelona December

Rey‐Biel, Pedro Collaborator Nada es Gratis September

PRIZES AND HONOURS Barberà, Salvador Fellow, Econometric Society, since 1988 Honorary Fellow of the Spanish Economic Association, since 2006


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Honorary Fellow of the Asociación Argentina de Economía Política, since 2008 Fellow, Corresponding member of the Academia Nacional Argentina de Ciencias Económicas, since 2008 Fellow, Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory, since 2011 Fellow, Member of the Academia Europaea, since 2013

Caballé, Jordi ICREA Academia Award, since 2010 Guner, Nezih Fellow, Spanish Economic Association, since 2014


Fellow, Spanish Economic Association, since 2007 Fellow, European Economic Association, since 2006 Fellow, CESIfo, since 2002 Prize to the Best Paper Published during 2013 by researchers in Spanish Institution, to the paper "A Theoretical Approach to Dual Practice Regulations in the Health Sector", by P. González and I. Macho‐Stadler, Journal of Health Economics 32, 66‐87, 2013. Asociación de Economía de la Salud (AES), since 2014

Massó, Jordi

Felow, Spanish Economic Association, since 2009

Olivella, Pau Royal Economic Society Prize for best non‐solicited article published in the Economic Journal in 2013, (awarded in April de 2014) for the article "Testing for Asymmetric Information in Private Health Insurance", whith Marcos Vera‐Hernández.


Fellow, CESIfo, since 2002 President of ASSET, since, 2013 Fellow, Spanish Economic Association, since 2011

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