CODE - Center for the study of the Organizations and Decisions in Economics

1. INTRODUCTION

The Center for the Study of Organizations and Decisions in Economics (CODE) is a research center at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, created in 1995 to promote high quality research in the theory of economic decisions and organizations. Since the beginning of its activities, CODE's main goal is to provide an environment spurring for excellence in research as measured by the highest international standards of scientific quality.

CODE's permanent members belong to the Department of Economics at the UAB, which has lead Research in Economics in Spain for the last twenty five years. The Department is still the natural meeting point for those activities, like undergraduate and doctoral education, for which diversity of interests and abilities are most important.

The activity report strives to be a regular publication that is useful in getting our colleagues acquainted with our research interest. The present edition covers the activities performed during 2008.

In 2008, CODE has hosted 18 visitors from all over the world for stays ranging from one month to two years as well as research trainees. Research activities can be grouped in five areas: Financial Economics/Macroeconomics, Industrial Organization, Mathematical Economics, Public Economics and Social Choice/Game Theory. All this research is developed through 17 research projects financed by the Spanish Ministry of Education, the Catalan Government (Generalitat de Catalunya) and the European Union. This activity has been materialized in 21 papers published in leading economic journals, 10 working papers, 1 chapters in books and 2 books. Also CODE members are officers in scientific associations, and have participated in major academic meetings, both as organizers and as presenters.

CODE appears among the top 10% research institutions in Europe in the rankings provided by RePEC (http://ideas.repec.org/top). Also, S. Barberà and D. Pérez-Castrillo appear among the top 10% authors in Europe, and all CODE members appear among the top 20% authors in Spain.

We hope that this report reflects the commitment of CODE to build an increasingly consistent research center that can be taken as a reference point by top quality research within Europe and beyond.

2. MEMBERS

2.1. RESEARCHERS

• BARBERÀ SÁNDEZ, Salvador

Ph.D.: Northwestern University (1975)

Fields of Specialization: Public Economics, Social Choice, Coalition Formation.

• BEVIÁ BAEZA, Carmen

Ph.D.: Universidad de Alicante (1994)

Fields of Specialization: Social Choice, Public Economics.

• CABALLÉ VILELLA, Jordi

Ph.D.: University of Pennsylvania (1989)

Fields of Specialization: Finance, Macroeconomics.

• CALVÓ-ARMENGOL, Antoni (†)

Ph.D.: École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, Paris and Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona (2000)

Fields of Specialization: Game Theory, Social Networks, Labor Economics and Organization.

• CONESA, Juan Carlos

Ph.D.: University of Minnesota (1999)

Fields of Specialization: Macroeconomics, Public Economics.

• MACHO-STADLER, Inés

Ph.D.: École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris (1989)

Fields of Specialization: Economics of Information, Industrial Organization, Public Economics.

• MARTÍNEZ-GIRALT, Xavier

Ph.D.: CORE, Université Catholique de Louvain (1988)

Fields of Specialization: Industrial Organization, Health Economics.

• MASSÓ CARRERAS, Jordi

Ph.D.: State University of New York at Stony Brook (1988)

Fields of Specialization: Game Theory, Social Choice.

• OLIVELLA CUNILL, Pau

Ph.D.: Northwestern University (1989)

Fields of Specialization: Economics of Information, Public Economics, Health Economics.

• OBIOLS HOMS, Francesc

Ph. D.: Universitat Pompeu Fabra, (1996)

Fields of Specialization: Macroeconomics. Aggregate Fluctuations.

• PÉREZ-CASTRILLO, David

Ph.D.: École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris (1991)

Fields of Specialization: Economics of Information, Game Theory, Industrial Organization.

2.2. ACADEMIC VISITS

BANAL-ESTANOL, Albert

City University London, UK.

June, 2008.

CASSIMAN, Bruno

IESE Bussines School.

November-Desember, 2008.

COELHO, Danilo

IPEA (Instituto de Pesquisa Económica Aplicada), Brazil.

May, 2008.

DE CARVALHO, Alexandre Xavier

IPEA (Instituto de Pesquisa Económica Aplicada), Brazil.

May, 2008.

EGUIA, Jon X.

New York University, USA.

May-June, 2008.

FRUTOS, Mª Angeles

Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain.

April, 2008.

GOTTARDI, Piero

University of Venice, Italy.

March, 2008.

KEHOE, Tim

Yale University, USA.

May, 2008.

MATOZZI, Andrea

California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA.

August-November, 2008.

SENGUPTA, Abhijit

University of Sidney, Australia.

September-October, 2008.

SALONEN, Hannu

University of Turku, Norway.

October-Desember, 2008.

SCHROYEN, Fred

Norges Handelshøyskole, Bergen, Norway

.January, 2008.

VEUGLERS, Reinhilde

Catholic University Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.

April, 2008.

WETTSTEIN, David

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er Sheva, Israel.

February-March, 2008.

2.3. RESEARCH TRAINEES

JUAN DE LA CIERVA FELLOWS:

LÓPEZ PINTADO, Dunia

Universidad de Alicante, 2004.

Fields of Specialization: Microeconomics, Game Theory and Social Networks.

January-December 2007

OTHER:

ARESPA CASTELLÓ, Marta

European University Institute.

Fields of Specialization: International Macroeconomics.

January-September 2008

BERVOETS, Sebastian

Fields of Specialization: Social Choice

January-September 2008

PROTOPESCU, Dan

Université Aix-Marseille II.

Fields of Specialization: Decision Theory, Risk Theory, Control Theory and Game Theory.

January-December 2008

2.4. ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF

IGLESIAS HERNÁNDEZ, Conx

MARTÍNEZ PASCUAL, Gisela

MORALES VERGEL, Daniel

ORTEGA LORENZO, Marta

3. AREAS OF RESEARCH

Financial Economics

Game Theory

Health Economics

Industrial Organization

Macroeconomics

Public Economics

Social Choice Theory

4. RESEARCH PROJECTS

A brief description is given of the research projects in which the members of CODE are involved. These projects are financed by the Ministry of Education and Science through the Inter-Ministerial Commission of Science and Technology, by the Government of Catalonia and by the European Community.

Title: Barcelona Jocs (2005-2008) (SEJ2005-24650-E/ECON)

Team coordinator: Antoni Calvó-Armengol.

Description: Barcelona-Jocs is a monthly workshop that gathers together researchers in game theory for all the universities in Catalonia, and aimed at promoting synergies across these various institutions. The workshop consists on two talks, one by a local speaker from the regional university network, the other by an outside speaker, usually of very high international notoriety in the profession. More information at http://selene.uab.es/acalvo/jocs.html

Title: Centre de Recerca en Economia de les Organitzacions (CREO) (2005SGR-00836)

Team coordinador: David Pérez-Castrillo.

Description: The main objective of our work is to understand why and how several organizations emerge, what environments promote their formation and which contracts or allocation mechanisms allow for the stabilization of the cooperation and the sharing of the related profits. We will deal with these questions on the basis of the tools used by game theory (cooperative and non-cooperative) and the models of industrial organization. A fairly important part of our effort will be framed in the areas in which the Pla de Recerca i Innovació 2005-2008 places an emphasis, particularly in the areas relating to Environmental Economy and Innovation Economy. Another part is framed in the wider notion of Public Economy, as it deals with problems of Health Economy and Design of mechanisms and Public Policy. Lastly, we will also deal with studies of Business Economy.

Title: Coalitions, Incentives, and Networks in Collective Choices (SEJ2005-01481/ECON)

Team coordinator: Jordi Massó Carreras.

Description: We study collective choices and mechanism design in contexts where groups, networks, and coalitions play an important role in shaping the individual incentives, and in general, in determining the outcome of the social choice. Our main contribution to the collective decision making is that we want to put emphasis on the structures of relationships that connect agents (exogenous or endogenous) as well as on the individual incentives that such structures generate.

Title: Coalitions, Incentives, and Networks in the Choice of Collective Decisions (2005SGR-00454)

Team coordinator: Jordi Massó Carreras.

Description: We study collective decision making and mechanism design in contexts where groups, networks, and coalitions play an important role in shaping the individual incentives, and in general, in determining the outcome of the social choice. Our main contribution to the collective decision making is that we want to put emphasis on the structures of relationships that connect agents (exogenous or endogenous) as well as on the individual incentives that such structures generate.

Title: Consolidating Economics (Consolider Ingenio 2010)

Team coordinators: Jordi Caballé, Xavier Martinez-Giralt.

Description: Consolidating Economics is a network of the top research institutions in Spain under the leadership of Andreu Mas-Colell. It integrates researchers from CODE and Department of Economics at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona as well as researchers from Universitat Pompeu Fabra, IESE, IAE, CREI, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, CEMFI, and FEDEA. Some general aims of the network are (i) foster and project economics research in different areas of science, both theoretical and applied, where a position of international prestige has already been attained; (ii) strengthen interdisciplinary links; (iii) carry out actions to promote and structure economics research in Spain on a level of global prestige; and (iv)encourage activities to increase international co-operation and projection, aimed particularly at Europe and Latin America.

Title: Constitutional Design and Governance issues: Theory, applications and simulation (ECO2008-04756/ECON)

Team coordinator: Salvador Barberà.

Description: Institutional design plays an important role in economic analysis, evidence of which is the recent award of the Nobel Prize to Hurwicz, Maskin and Myerson. The purpose is to analyze mechanisms, existing or theoretically motivated, that will lead agents to behave efficiently. Among these mechanisms we find auctions, voting procedures, matching mechanisms, rationing rules, negotiation schemes, and any market or arbitrage situation. We propose to further study issues in this general area, which has been the unifying topic in our previous projects, although incorporating new lines of research. On the theoretical aspects, we wish to emphasize the problems of information and networks, and to revise basic concepts, like the notion of rationality, in light of the new behavioural theories. On the applied side, we focus mainly on the mechanisms used by public authorities like schools, universities or hospitals to assign students or interns. Methodologically, we incorporate simulations as a method to analyze models that given their high complexity are not tractable through theoretical analysis only. In terms of the topics we address, we widen our studies to issues previously unexplored by our team, such as the decisions concerning science and innovation and aspect of international bargaining. In any case we remain committed to issues of efficiency and justice in order to guide institutional design.

Title: Distinció per la promoció de la Recerca Universitària.

Team coordinator: Salvador Barberà Sández.

Description: Support to Catalan researchers.

Title: Energía y sociedad

Team coordinator: Xavier Martinez-Giralt.

Description: Advising for the development of an Internet site (www.energiaymercado.es) integrated in the Iberdrola Campus dedicated to the spreading and exchange of information and content related to the liberalized markets of energy whose objective is to contribute to the analysis and understanding of these markets and to the diffusion of the benefits that offer to the society.

Title: Identificación de Reglas de reparto inmunes a soborno A/3079/05 (PCI Iberoamérica)

Team coordinator: Jordi Massó Carreras.

Description: The division problem consists of allocating an amount of a perfectly divisible good among a group of n agents with single-peaked preferences. A rule maps preference profiles into n shares of the amount to be allocated. A rule is bribe-proof if no group of agents can compensate another agent to misrepresent his preference and, after an appropriate redistribution of their shares, each obtains a strictly preferred share. We want to characterize all bribe-proof rules as the class of efficient, strategy-proof, and weak replacement monotonic rules. In addition, we want to identify the functional form of all bribe-proof and tops-only rules.

Title: Macroeconomic analysis group: Economic implications of habit formation in consumption (2005SGR-00447)

Team coordinator: Jordi Caballé Vilella.

Description: There is a long-standing debate in the literature about the relative importance of bequests and life-cycle saving in the mechanics of capital accumulation, wealth inequality, and public policy. In this project we aim at analyzing how the presence of preferences displaying habits and aspirations affects the altruistic bequest motive from parents to children. By habits we mean that the utility associated with a given amount of current consumption depends on the past experience of consumption of the individual under consideration. By aspirations we mean instead that the utility of individuals depends on the consumption experience of their antecessors. In both cases past consumption is used as a reference with respect which current own consumption is compared to, which means that preferences are time non-separable. Finally, we study how habit formation affects the compliance behavior of taxpayers.

Title: Mercado de trabajo en Economía (SEJ2005-24660E)

Team coordinator: Inés Macho Stadler.

Description: The aim of the network is to get help to suport and impel the work market of doctors in economy in Spain, in such a way that we achieve that this market run in a more efficient way and with a major visibility and impact.

Title: Organizaciones y mercados: Incentivos y Regularización (SEJ2006-00538/ECON)

Team coordinator: Inés Macho-Stadler.

Description: The main target of this project is to understand why and how different organizations emerge, which conditions stimulate their emergence and which contracts or sharing rules maintain cooperation and allow the sharing of its associated benefits. We are also interested in the interaction between market institutions and their optimal regulation in situations in which markets does not produce efficient results. An important part of this project lies in the broad area of Public Economics, specifically in Environmental Economics and Health Economics. We also plan to work in the Economics of Innovation and the area of Firm Economics. Some methodological contributions on Mechanism Design and Contract design, which are orthogonal to all the previous fields, will also be addressed.

Title: Políticas Monetaria y Fiscal Óptimas (SEJ2006-03879)

Team Coordinator: Jordi Caballé.

Description: In this project we plan to study the design of optimal fiscal and monetary policies in two contexts: (a) in closed economies in which individuals face uncertainty with respect to the length of their lives and the their labour productivity and (b) in the framework of monetary unions.

The first part of the project will be a quantitative analysis of the optimum level of tax on capital income in an environment in which there exists an explicit motive for redistribution and insurance because of the uncertainly, and where the distortionary effects of the tax are present in the analysis. In the second part of this project we analyze the monetary and fiscal Policy interactions to sustain a monetary union.

Title: Red Española de Elección Social (Acciones Complementarias) (SEJ2007-30297-E/ECON)

Team coordinator: Jordi Massó Carreras

Description: The aim of the network is to organize a series of meetings with the objective that researches in Spain matching on Social Choice can exchange ideas and present work in progress.

Title: The European Spallation Neutron Source (ESS)

Team coordinators: Xavier Martínez Giralt, David Pérez-Castrillo.

Description: Participation in The European Spallation Neutron Source (ESS) within ESS-Bilbao team. The particular tasks to be developed concern (i) the analysis of potential sources of ESS exploitation income. In particular, the research of actual and potential industrial uses and users as well as the pricing policies and (ii) a detailed analysis of the pros and cons of models of governance of presently functioning European science laboratories.

Title: Votos, Redes y Coaliciones. Estudios sobre la Interacción entre Reglas Formales y Estructurales Organizativas en la Toma de Decisiones Colectivas (SEJ2006-27589-E)

Team coordinator: Salvador Barberà Sàndez.

Description: In a collective decision-making process, formal rules are not the sole influent factor. The degree of collaboration and interaction between the members of the decision-making committee are of special importance.

The following project aspires to approach the latter by combining elements of the traditional decision-making theory with other elements in which formal and informal relationships between actors exist. In that sense, this project offers an approach on decision-making processes in different contexts such as processes where agents share the same objectives but there is asymmetry of information; the design of efficient positive discrimination mechanisms; the assignment of indivisible tasks in cooperative contexts and the influence of voluntary networks and the reciprocal influence with formal decision-making rules.

Title: Xarxa de Referència d'R+D+I en Economia Analítica (CREA 2008)

Team coordinator: Salvador Barberà Sández.

Description: CREA is part of a network of reference centers sponsored by the Generalitat de Catalunya. The network was created with the aim of providing support for research groups with international impact in their fields. CREA integrates researchers from the Grup de Recerca en Economia Analitica UAB, which incorporates the Center for the study of Organizations and Decisions in Economics (CODE) and researchers from the Unitat de Fonaments de l'Anàlisi Econòmica; Grupo de Recerca en Economia Analítica UPF incorporating researchers from the Department of Economics and Business; and the researchers of the Insitut d'Anàlisi Econòmica (CSIC). By bringing together these groups CREA stands as one of the leading research groups in Europe.

Title: Workshop on The Political Economy of Democracy

Team coordinator: Carmen Beviá.

Description: Workshop celebrated on June 5^th-7^th with the collaboration of H. Llavador and E.Aragonés.

5. PUBLICATIONS AND WORKING PAPERS

BARBERÀ SÁNDEZ, Salvador

- (Joint with B. Moreno), "Top Monotonicity: a Weak Domain Restriction Encompassing single Peakedness, single Crossing and Order Restriction", WP297 CREA-Barcelona Economics. Revised 2008.

- (Joint with L. Ehlers),"Free Triples, Large Indifference Classes and the Majority Rule”, WP512.02 UAB-CSIC and WP15 GSE Research Network. Revised 2008.

- (Joint with D. Coelho),"On the Rule of k Names", WP264 CREA-Barcelona Economics. Revised 2008.

- (Joint with D. Coelho), "How to Choose a Non-Controversial List with k Names", Social Choice and Welfare 31(1), 79-96, 2008.

BEVIÁ BAEZA, Carmen

- (Joint with L. Corchón), "Cooperative Production and Efficiency," In Press, Mathematical Social Sciences. Available on line 9 October 2008. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mathsocsci.2008.09.006]

- (Joint with L. Corchón), “Peace Agreements without commitment”, Barcelona Economics Working Paper Series, nº 340, 2008.

CABALLÉ VILELLA, Jordi

- (Joint with A.I. Moro-Egido) “The effect of Aspirations, habits, and Social Security on the Distribution of Wealth” Barcelona GSE Research Network Working Papers, 352, 2008.

- (Joint with J. Alonso-Carrera and X. Raurich), “Can Consumption Spillovers Be a Source of Equilibrium Indeterminacy”, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 32, 2883-2902, 2008.

- (Joint with J. Alonso-Carrera and X. Raurich), “Estate Taxes, Consumption Externalities, and Altruism”, Journal of Public Economics, 92, 1751-1764, 2008.

CALVÓ-ARMENGOL, Antoni (†)

- (Joint with A. Cabrales and N. Pavoni) “Social Preferences, Skill Segregation and Wage Dynamics” Review of Economic Studies, 7, 65–98, 2008.

- (Joint with A. Cabrales) “Aversion to inequality and Segregating Equilibria”, Journal of Economic Theory 139, 99-113, 2008.

CONESA, Juan Carlos

- (Joint with S. Kitao and D. Krueger), "Taxing capital? Not a bad idea after all!", American Economic Review, forthcoming.

- (Joint with C. Garriga), “Optimal Fiscal Policy in the Design of Social Security Reforms”, International Economic Review, vol 49 (1), 291-318.

CHAPTERS IN BOOKS:

- (Joint with C. Garriga) , "Optimal Response to a Transitory Demographic Shock", in De Menil,G. R. Fenge and P. Pestieau eds. Pension Strategies in Europe and the United States, in CESifo - MIT Press, 87-113.

MACHO-STADLER, Inés

- “Environmental Regulation: Choice of Instruments under Imperfect Compliance”, Spanish Economic Review 10(1), 1-21, 2008.

- (Joint with D. Pérez-Castrillo and R. Veugelers), “Designing Contracts for University Spin-offs”, Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 185-218, 2008.

MARTÍNEZ-GIRALT, Xavier

- (Joint with P.P. Barros) “On international Cost sharing of Pharmaceutical R&D”, International Journal of Health Care Finance and Economics, 8, 301-312, 2008.

- (Joint with P.P. Barros) “Selecting Health Care Providers: “Any Willing Provider vs. Negotiation”, European Journal of Political Economy, European Journal of Political Economy, 24, 402-414, 2008.

- (Joint with B. García Mariñoso, P.Olivella) “Bundling in Telecomunications”, Barcelona Economics Working Paper 365, 2008.

- (Joint with P.P. Barros) “Technological diffusion, expenditure and regulation in health care”, mimeo, 2008.

- (Joint with P.P. Barros) “Contractual Design and Public-private partner-ships for Hospitals”, Barcelona Economics Working Paper 292, 2008.

- (Joint with R. Nicolini) “Firm Agreements and Tehcnological Endowments”, Barcelona Economics Working paper 101, 2008.

BOOKS:

- “Microeconomía avanzada. Guía de estudio”, Bellaterra, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, http://pareto.uab.es/xmg/Docencia/MonographMicroAv.pdf, 1-306, 2008.

- “Economía de la Salut: una Guía para no Economistas”, Bellaterra, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, http://pareto.uab.es/xmg/Docencia/Health/MEXS.pdf, book, 1-291, 2008.

MASSÓ CARRERAS, Jordi

- (Joint with A. Nicolò) “Efficent and Stable Collective Choices under Gregarious Preferences”, Games and Economic Behaviour 64, 591-611, 2008.

- (Joint with D. Berga, J. Bergantiños and A.Name) “On Two Basic Properties of Equilibria of Voting with Exit”, Economics Bulletin 4, 1-9, 2008.

- (Joint with M. Vorsatz) “Weighted Approval Voting", Economic Theory 36, 129-146, 2008.

- (Joint with R. Martínez, A. Neme, and J. Oviedo) "On the Invariance of the Set of Stable Matchings with Respect to Substitutable Preference Profiles," International Journal of Game Theory 36, 497-518, 2008.

- (Joint with L. Ehlers) "Matching Markets under (In)complete Information", mimeo, 2008.

- (Joint with D. Jaume and A. Neme) “The Multiple-partners Assignment Game with Heterogeneous Sells and Multi-unit Demands: Competitive Equilibria”, mimeo, 2008.

OBIOLS HOMS, Francesc

- “A note on borrowing limits and welfare”, mimeo, 2008.

- (Joint with A. Marcet) “Polarization under incomplete markets and endogenous labor productivity”, mimeo, 2008.

PÉREZ-CASTRILLO, David

- (Joint with T. Verdier) “A General Analysis of Rent Seeking Games”, 40 Years of Research on Rent Seeking, 133-148, Springer, Germany, 2008.

- (Joint with I. Macho-Stadler and R. Veugelers) “Designing Contracts for University Spin-offs”, Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 185-218, 2008.

6. EDITORIAL ACTIVITIES

BARBERÀ SÁNDEZ, Salvador

- Associate Editor:

GAMES AND ECONOMIC BEHAVIOR

JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ECONOMIC THEORY

SOCIAL CHOICE AND WELFARE

- Advisory Board:

THEORIA

BEVIÁ BAEZA, Carmen

- Editorial Board:

MATHEMATICAL SOCIAL SCIENCES

CABALLÉ VILELLA, Jordi

- Editorial Board:

PORTUGUESE ECONOMIC JOURNAL

JOURNAL OF MACROECONOMICS

CONESA, Juan Carlos

- Associate Editor:

MACROECONOMICS DYNAMICS

MACHO-STADLER, Inés

- Associate Editor:

JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC BEHAVIOR AND ORGANIZATION

HACIENDA PÚBLICA ESPAÑOLA-REVISTA DE ECONOMÍA PÚBLICA

MASSÓ CARRERAS, Jordi

- Associate Editor:

ECONOMICS BULLETIN

SOCIAL CHOICE AND WELFARE

OLIVELLA CUNILL, Pau

- Editorial Board:

SPANISH ECONOMIC REVIEW

PÉREZ-CASTRILLO, David

- Chair of the Editorial Council:

INVESTIGACIONES ECONÓMICAS (January 2007-...).

- Associate Editor:

INTERNATIONAL GAME THEORY REVIEW (April 2004-...).

7. CONFERENCES AND MEETINGS

BARBERÀ SÁNDEZ, Salvador

- Advances in Collective Choices and Economic Design. Maastrich, Germany.

- Conferencia de Rectores de las Universidades Españolas (CRUE). Programa de postgrado. Madrid, Spain.

- Conferencia en el Postgrado de Gestión Universitaria de la UAB. Barcelona, Spain.

- XV Encuentro de Economía Pública (XVEEP). Salamanca, Spain.

BEVIÀ BAEZA, Carmen

- ASSET meeting. Florence, Italy.

- EEA-ESEM meeting. Milano, Italy.

- Third Congress of the Game Theory Society. Evanston, Illinois, USA.

- IX Meeting of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare. Montreal, Canada.

- First Meeting on Tournaments, Contests and Relative Performance. North Carolina, USA.

CABALLÉ VILELLA, Jordi

- XXXIII Simposio de Análisis Económico. Zaragoza, Spain.

- Meeting of the Association of Southern European Economic Theorists (ASSET). Firenze, Italy.

- European Economic Association Congress. Milano, Italy.

MACHO-STADLER, Inés

- ASSET Meeting. Florence, Italy.

- Third World Congress of the Game Theory Society. Chicago, USA.

- Third Workshop on Economic Design and Institutions. Bruxels, Belgium.

MARTÍNEZ GIRALT, Xavier

- Health Economics and the Pharmaceutical Industry. Toulouse, France.

- SP-SP Workshop. Industrial Organization and Health. Barcelona, Spain.

MASSÓ CARRERAS, Jordi

- XXXIII Simposio de Análisis Económico, Zaragoza, Spain.

- Quinto Encuentro de la Red Española de Elección Social, Pamplona, Spain.

- Workshop on Networks, Matching and Incentives, Barcelona, Spain.

- III Meeting of The Game Theory Society, Evanston, USA.

- Jornadas de Economía Matemática y Teoría Económica, Universidad de San Andrés, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

- IX Meeting of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare, Montréal, Canada.

- IV Workshop on Public Policy Design: Topics on Social Choice, Girona, Spain.

- Workshop on Matching, CalTech Pasadena (2008).

OBIOLS HOMS, Francesc

- XXXII Simposio de Análisis Económico. Granada, Spain.

-Society for Economic Dynamics Meeting. Prague, Czech Republic.

OLIVELLA CUNILL, Pau

- 9th European Health Economics Workshop. Bergen, Norway.

- Jornadas de la Asociación Española de Economía de la Salud. Salamanca, Spain.

- European Health Economics Conference de la International Health Economics Association (ECHE 2008). Roma, Italy.

- XXXII Simposio de Análisis Económico. Granada, Spain.

PÉREZ-CASTRILLO, David

- Third World Congress of the Game Theory Society. Chicago, USA.

- Third Workshop on Economic Design and Institutions. Bruxelas, Belgium.

8. SEMINARS

BEVIÁ BAEZA, Carmen

- Université Catholique de Louvain, CORE, Louvain, Belgium.

CONESA, Juan Carlos

- University of Edinburgh (2008, Generational Policy and the Measurement of Tax Incidence)

- CERGE - EI (2008, Generational Policy and the Measurement of Tax Incidence)

- Banco de España (2008, Generational Policy and the Measurement of Tax Incidence)

- Banco Central de Hungría (2008, Generational Policy and the Measurement of Tax Incidence)

- Joint Lunch Seminar CFS, ECB and Bundesbank (2008, Generational Policy and the Measurement of Tax Incidence)

- Universitat d’Alacant (2008, Generational Policy and the Measurement of Tax Incidence)

- European University Institute, Florence (2008, Generational Policy and the Measurement of Tax Incidence)

- University of Bern (2008, Generational Policy and the Measurement of Tax Incidence)

- Banco de Portugal (2008, Productivity, Taxes and Hours Worked in Spain: 1970-2005)

MACHO-STADLER, Inés

- Universidade de Porto, Porto, Portugal

MASSÓ CARRERAS, Jordi

- Instituto de Matemática Aplicada, Universidad de San Luis, Sant Luis, Argentina.

- École Polytechnique, Paris, France.

- Cardiff Business School, Cardiff, United Kingdom.

- Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Sevilla, Spain.

- ISEG, Lisboa, Portugal.

- Universidad del Pais Vasco, Bilbao, Spain.

OBIOLS HOMS, Francesc

- Universidad de Vigo, Vigo, Spain.

- CEMFI, Madrid, Spain.

OLIVELLA CUNILL, Pau

- Universidad de Murcia, Spain.

PÉREZ-CASTRILLO, David

- University of Canterbury, New Zealand

- Queen’s University Belfast, Ireland

- Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

- Universitat Rovira i Virgili

9. ORGANIZATION OF CONFERENCES AND PARTICIPATION IN SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEES

BARBERÀ SÁNDEZ, Salvador

- 13th Barcelona Economics Lecture. Barcelona, Spain.

- 12th Barcelona Economics Lecture. Barcelona, Spain.

- 11th Barcelona Economics Lecture. Barcelona, Spain.

BEVIÁ BAEZA, Carmen

- Organizer of the Workshop on Conditions, Networks and Incentives, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain.

- Member of the local committee of the European Economic Association and the Econometric Society European Meetings (EEA-ESEM), Barcelona, Spain.

- Member of the Scientific Committee of the Simposio de Análisis Económico, Zaragoza, Spain.

- Co-organizer of the Workshop on The Political Economy of Democracy, sponsored by “Fundación BBVA,” Barcelona, Spain.

- Member of the Scientific Committee of the Meeting of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare, Montreal, Spain.

MACHO-STADLER, Inés

- Annual Conference of the European Association for Industrial Economics EARIE. Toulouse, France.

- Annual Conference of the European Economic Association. Milano, Italy.

MASSÓ CARRERAS, Jordi

- Organizer of the Workshop on Matching: Theory, Applications and Experiments.

- Organizer of the Fifth Meeting of the Spanish Network on Social Choice, Universidad Pública de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain.

- Member of the Scientific Committee of the Fifth Conference on Economic Design, Ann Arbor, USA.

- Organizer of the Workshop on Conditions, Networks and Incentives, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain.

OLIVELLA CUNILL, Pau

- Member of the Scientific Committee of the European Health Economics Conference of the International Health Economics Association (ECHE 2008). Roma, Italy.

- Member of the Scientific Committee of the 9th European Health Economics Workshop, Bergen, Norway.

PÉREZ-CASTRILLO, David

- Member of the Scientific Committee for the ASSET (Associación Europea de Economía Teórica y Econometría).

10. RESEARCH VISITS

MACHO-STADLER, Inés

- University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand.

MARTÍNEZ-GIRALT, Xavier

- Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal.

MASSÓ CARRERAS, Jordi

- Universitá degle Studi di Padova, Padova, Italy.

- Instituto de Matemática Aplicada de San Luis, Universidad Nacional de San Luis, San Luis, Argentina.

PÉREZ-CASTRILLO, David

- University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand.

11. ADVISING Ph.D. THESIS

ERDEM, Orhan