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Nash implementation of supermajority rules
(Springer Nature, 2024-02-23)A committee of n experts from a university department must choose whom to hire from a set of m candidates. Their honest judgments about the best candidate must be aggregated to determine the socially optimal candidates. ... -
Coordinated and uncoordinated punishment in a team investment game
(Springer Nature, 2024-02-24)Coordinated punishment occurs when punishment requires a specific number of punishers to be effective, otherwise, no damage will be inflicted on the target. While societies often rely on this punishment device, its benefits ... -
Transmission and use of information in network games.
(Elsevier, 2023-04-08)We design an experiment to study how agents share and make use of information in networks. Agents receive payo -relevant signals automatically shared with neighbours. We compare the use of information in different network ... -
Can there be a market for cheap-talk information? An experimental investigation.
(Elsevier, 2020-03-17)This paper reports on experiments testing the viability of markets for cheap-talk information. We find that the level of trade in these markets is very small and eventually vanishes. Sellers provide low-quality information ... -
Engaging academic staff in the quality assurance system in higher education: A field experiment
(Elsevier, 2022)A randomised field experiment was conducted at the University of Malaga in 2017 to examine personalised norm-based messages’ effects on response rates to the annual faculty satisfaction survey. This research had a factorial ... -
Far above others.
(Elsevier, 2021-10-29)We study the role of competitiveness, via interpersonal comparisons, in a society or a large organization. We consider a dynamic model of effort provision. Agents gain an extra utility by producing an outcome above a ... -
An Experimental Study on the Effects of Communication, Credibility, and Clustering in Network Games.
(The MIT Press, 2023-11-17)We examine how pre-play communication and clustering affect play in a challenging hybrid experimental game on networks. Free-form chat is impressively effective in achieving the non-equilibrium efficient outcome, but ... -
Dirty neighbors - Pollution in an interlinked world.
(Elsevier, 2020-01-07)We apply a network approach to analyze individual and aggregate consumption that generates predominately local pollution (e.g., noise, water and air quality, waste disposal sites). This allows us to relate the individual ... -
Reputation and perverse transparency under two concerns.
(Elsevier, 2023-07-25)Quite often an expert takes position on an issue where certain actions can be perceived as biased. If the expert has an informational concern and she does not want the listener to perceive her as biased, she has an incentive ... -
Reputation and news suppression in the media industry
(Elsevier, 2020-09-30)This paper proposes a new argument to explain why media firms silence information and why this behavior may vary across firms and market structures. We build on the literature of career concerns and consider firms that ... -
The bureaucracy trap
(Elsevier, 2023-07-30)We study the incentives of political parties to institute reforms that improve bureaucratic quality and increase the ability of governments to implement policy change. We consider a context of dynamic elections where current ... -
Institutional flexibility, political alternation and middle-of-the-road policies
(Elsevier, 2021-12-30)This paper presents a novel explanation for political alternation in democracies, rooted in the benefit for the median voter of keeping policy from drifting too far to either extreme. Central to this argument is the idea ... -
Active labour market policies and the efficiency of the European Social Fund in Spanish regions
(Taylor and Francis online, 2018)En este artículo se calculan los determinantes del gasto público en las políticas activas del mercado laboral (PAML) de ámbito regional mediante datos de panel de una muestra de 17 regiones españolas (1989–2010). La ... -
Macroeconomic Determinants of Air Travel Demand in Spain.
(University of Bath, 2020-01-01)This paper constructs and estimates a panel data model that predicts the number of air traffic passengers from several macroeconomic and geographic variables. The model is estimated with data from Spain (1999–2014) at the ... -
Cádiz, ciudad vinatera entre mediados de los siglos XIX y XX
(Revista de Estudios Regionales, 2017)La ciudad de Cádiz ha sido históricamente reconocida por la importancia de su actividad comercial y de su puerto: lugar de entrada y salida de los intercambios entre Europa, África y América durante siglos. En ese comercio ... -
Personal lies
(Elsevier, 2023-12-24)Using the mind game, we provide experimental evidence that people are more likely to lie when they disclose non-personal information (e.g., reporting a number they thought of) compared with personal information (e.g., ... -
Empresarios vinícolas y estrategias empresariales ante la crisis de la vitivinicultura andaluza: Lacave & Compañía
(Universidad del País Vasco, 2022-02-01)Tradicionalmente, el negocio del vino ha sido una de las principales actividades económicas desarrolladas en la provincia de Cádiz, cobrando especial relevancia desde mediados del siglo XIX, época de crecimiento y prosperidad. ... -
Análisis histórico de una compañía vinatera: la sociedad mercantil Lacave y Compañía desde la óptica contable (1870-1923)
(2020)Este artículo tiene como objetivo dar a conocer las características de la empresa Lacave y Compañía, que desempeñó su actividad en el sector vitivinícola en la ciudad de Cádiz en los siglos XIX y XX, a través del estudio ... -
Are Charter Value and Supervision Aligned? A Segmentation Analysis.
(Elsevier, 2018-06-05)Previous work suggests that the charter value hypothesis is theoretically grounded and empirically supported, but not universally. Accordingly, this paper aims to perform an analysis of the relations between charter value, ... -
Aproximación al comercio de vinos en Cádiz. El caso de la familia Lacave en el siglo XIX: estrategias y desarrollo.
(Instituto de Historia de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso (Chile), 2021)En el siglo XIX, muchos empresarios decidieron establecerse en Cádiz para desarrollar sus negocios en un sector en expansión, el vinícola, y este fue el caso de la familia Lacave. El objetivo principal que se plantea es ...