Salvador BARBERÀ

Professor of Economics

Ph.D., Northwestern University, USA, 1975

 

Recent Published Research Papers & Books

• Handbook of Utility Theory. Volume II Extensions, Salvador Barberà, Peter J. Hammond and Christian Seidl (Eds.), Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 2004.

• "Strategy-proof Social Choice", in K. Arrow and K. Suzumura (Eds.), Handbook of Social Choice and Welfare. Volume 2, Kluwer Academic Publishers, forthcoming.
• "On the Rule of k Names", (joint with D. Coelho), Games and Economic Behavior in the special issue in Honor of Ehud Kalai, avaliable on line 2009.
• "How to Choose a Non-Controversial List with k Names", (joint with Danilo Coelho), Social Choice and Welfare 31, 79-96, 2008.
• "Indifferences and Domain Restrictions", Analyse und Kritik, 29(2), 146-162, 2007.
• "A Note on the Impossibility of a Satisfactory Concept of Stability for Coalition Formation Games", (joint with Anke Gerber), Economic Letters 95, 85-90, 2007.
• "On the Weights of Nations: Assigning Voting Weights in a Heterogeneous Union", (joint with Matthew O. Jackson), Journal of Political Economy 114(2), 2006.
• "Locating Public Facilities by Majority: Stability, Consistency and Group Formation", (joint with Carmen Beviá), Games and Economic Behavior 56(1), 185-200, 2006.
• "Arrow's Impossibility Theorem" in Segura, J. and Rodríguez Braun, C. (Eds.), An Eponymous Dictionary of Economics (A Guide to Laws and Theorems Named after Economists). Chentelham, UK; Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar, 2004.
• "Voting by Committees under Constraints", (joint with Jordi Massó and Alejandro Neme), Journal of Economic Theory 122, 185-205, 2005.
• "Ranking Sets of Objects", (joint with Walter Bossert and Prasanta K. Pattanaik), in Salvador Barberà, Peter J. Hammond and Christian Seidl (Eds.), Handbook of Utility Theory. Volume II Extensions, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht. 893–977, 2004.
• "Choosing How to Choose: Self-Stable Majority Rules and Constitutions", (joint with Matthew O. Jackson), The Quarterly Journal of Economics 119(3), 1011-1048, 2004.

Recent Unpublished Research Papers

• "Single-dipped preferences", (joint withy Dolors Berga and Bernardo Moreno), WP418 Barcelona GSE 2009.
• "Individual versus group strategy-proofness: when do they coincide?", (joint with Dolors Berga and Bernardo Moreno), mimeo 2009.
• "Top Monotonicity: a Common Root for Single Peakedness, Single Crossing and the Median Voter Result", (joint with B. Moreno), WP297 CREA-Barcelona Economics, 2007. Revised 2009.
• "Free Triples, Large Indifference Classes and the Majority Rule", (joint with Lars Ehlers), WP512.02 UAB-CSIC and WP15 CREA-Barcelona Economics 2008.
• "A Theorem on Preference Aggregation", WP166 CREA-Barcelona Economics, 2006. 

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Contact details:

Salvador Barberà
MOVE, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and Barcelona GSE

Mailing Address: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona; Facultat d'Economia i Empresa; Edifici B; 08193 Bellaterra (BARCELONA); Spain.
UAB phone: 34+ 93 581 1814 / 1797 assistant; e-mail: salvador.barbera@uab.cat; http://pareto.uab.es/sbarbera/
MOVE phone 34+ 93 586 8493 assistant; e-mail: director@movebarcelona.eu; http://www.movebarcelona.eu
BGSE http://www.barcelonagse.eu/MESI.html             Fax: 34+ 93 581 3767

Updated: February, 2010