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.

• "On the Rule of k Names", (joint with D. Coelho), Games and Economic Behavior in the special issue in Honor of Ehud Kalai, Forthcoming.
• "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), 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.
• "On Coalition Formation: Durable Coalition Structures", (joint with Anke Gerber), Mathematical Social Sciences 45, 185-203, 2003.
• "Supporting Others and the Evolution of Influence", (joint with Andrés Perea), Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 26(12), 2051-2092, 2002.
• "Self-selection Consistent Functions", (joint with Carmen Beviá), Journal of Economic Theory 105(2), 263-277, 2002.
• "Voting for Voters: A Model of Electoral Evolution", (joint with Michael Maschler and Jonathan Shalev), Games and Economic Behavior 37, 40-78, 2001.
• "An Introduction to Strategy-proof Social Choice Functions", Social Choice and Welfare 18, 619-653, 2001.

Recent Unpublished Research Papers

• "Individual versus group strategy-proofness: when do they coincide?", (joint with Dolors Berga and Bernardo Moreno), Barcelona Economics Working Paper Series WP372, Revised 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, 2002. Revised 2008.
• "A Theorem on Preference Aggregation", WP166 CREA-Barcelona Economics, 2001. 
• "Preference for Flexibility and the Opportunities of Choice", (joint with Birgit Grodal), WP2 CREA-Barcelona Economics, 2003.
• "Designing Decisions Rules for Transnational Infrastructure Projects", WP5/03E Inter-American Development Bank and WP61 CREA-Barcelona Economics, 2003.

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Contact details:

Departament d'Economia i d'Història Econòmica and CODE
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Edifici B 
08193 Bellaterra (BARCELONA)
Spain
Phone: (34) 93 581 18 14
Assistant: (34) 93 581 17 97
Fax: (34) 93 581 37 67// 93 581 20 12
salvador.barbera@uab.es
http://pareto.uab.es/sbarbera
http://pareto.uab.es/code
http://www.barcelonaeconomics.org/

Updated: June 06, 2008