My research focuses on mechanisms design in economics, mainly related to (1) Coalition Formation and Matching Theory - One-Sided Matching Problems. - Two-Sided Matching Markets: Strategy-Proofness; mechanism design. - Coalition Formation Problems: Stability and Mechanism Design. - Job Matching Markets. (2)Social Choice and Welfare Economics - Bankruptcy Problems - Cost-Sharing (and Surplus-Sharing) Mechanisms - Mechanisms Desing: Implementation, Auction Design; Contests Games.
Auctions and Rent-Seeking
Competition for Procurement Shares (with Matthias Dahm), FUNCAS WP 642/2011 (2011)
We propose a new procurement procedure which allocates shares of the total amount to be...
On the Complete Information First-Price Auction and its Intuitive Solution (with Matthias Dahm), International Game Theory Review (2011)
Despite the popularity of auction theoretical thinking, it appears that no one has presented an...
Rent Seeking and Rent Dissipation: A Neutrality Result (with Matthias Dahm), Journal of Public Economics (2010)
We consider rent seeking contests between at least two agents who might value the prize...
Bidding for Being a Seller (with Matthias Dahm), Unpublished (2009)
We propose a new procedure for supplying Public Firms. This mechanism is inspired in an...
The Complete Information First-Price Auction with Finite Bidding Grid (with Matthias Dahm), Unpublished (2009)
Despite the popularity of auction theoretical thinking, it appears that no one has presented an...
Schooling
Efficiency or Equity? A Conciliating Approach for School Choice Problems (with Antonio Romero-Medina), SSRN WP 1760592 (2011)
This paper proposes a way to allocate schools places conciliating Pareto efficiency and Equity. Taking...
Fair School Placement (with Antonio Romero-Medina), QM&ET Working Papers 11-01 (2011)
This paper introduces τ-fairness as a compromise solution reconciling Pareto efficiency and equity in School...
On Integration Policies and Schooling (with Begoña Subiza), SSRN WP 1768813 (2011)
This paper proposes a reform for school allocation procedures in order to help integration policies...
Re-Reforming the Bostonian System: A Novel Approach to the Schooling (with Antonio Romero-Medina), SSRN 1743082 (2011)
This paper proposes the notion of ε-stability to conciliate Pareto efficiency and fairness. We propose...
Matching and Coalition Formation Problems
Efficiency or Equity? A Conciliating Approach for School Choice Problems (with Antonio Romero-Medina), SSRN WP 1760592 (2011)
This paper proposes a way to allocate schools places conciliating Pareto efficiency and Equity. Taking...
Fair School Placement (with Antonio Romero-Medina), QM&ET Working Papers 11-01 (2011)
This paper introduces τ-fairness as a compromise solution reconciling Pareto efficiency and equity in School...
On Integration Policies and Schooling (with Begoña Subiza), SSRN WP 1768813 (2011)
This paper proposes a reform for school allocation procedures in order to help integration policies...
Re-Reforming the Bostonian System: A Novel Approach to the Schooling (with Antonio Romero-Medina), SSRN 1743082 (2011)
This paper proposes the notion of ε-stability to conciliate Pareto efficiency and fairness. We propose...
Coalition Formation and Stability (with Antonio Romero-Medina), Social Choice and Welfare (2006)
This paper studies a class of NTU coalition formation games in which every player's payoff...
Bankruptcy
A New Prospect of Additivity in Bankruptcy Problems (with María del Carmen Marco-Gil and José A. Silva), Contributions to Game Theory and Management (2010)
As is known, there is no rule satisfying Adittivity on the complete domain of bankruptcy...
The Minimal Overlap Rule Revisited (with María del Carmen Marco-Gil and José A. Silva), Social Choice and Welfare (2008)
This paper provides an analysis of the Minimal Overlap Rule, a solution for bankruptcy problems...
Bankruptcy Games and the Ibn Ezra's Proposal (with María del Carmen Marco-Gil and José A. Silva), Economic Theory (2005)
This paper explores an old solution for bankruptcy problems, described by Ibn Ezra in the...
Cost-Sharing Problems
A Proposal for Sharing Costs (with José A. Silva), Journal of Mathematical Economics (2000)
This paper proposes a cost-sharing rule for the specific case in which the agents’ demands...
Diseño de Tarifas en Empresas Reguladas: Nueva Axiomatixación del Sistema de Aumann-Shapley, Economía Mexicana (1996)
This paper proposes a new axiomatic justification for the employ of the Aumann-Shapley value for...
Mechanisms Design
Competition for Procurement Shares (with Matthias Dahm), FUNCAS WP 642/2011 (2011)
We propose a new procurement procedure which allocates shares of the total amount to be...
Fair School Placement (with Antonio Romero-Medina), QM&ET Working Papers 11-01 (2011)
This paper introduces τ-fairness as a compromise solution reconciling Pareto efficiency and equity in School...
Re-Reforming the Bostonian System: A Novel Approach to the Schooling (with Antonio Romero-Medina), SSRN 1743082 (2011)
This paper proposes the notion of ε-stability to conciliate Pareto efficiency and fairness. We propose...
Bidding for Being a Seller (with Matthias Dahm), Unpublished (2009)
We propose a new procedure for supplying Public Firms. This mechanism is inspired in an...
Servicios Universales: Decisiones de Implementación y Financiación, La Construcción de la Paz. Propuestas Multidisciplinares (2008)
This work proposes a novel way to finance the public services in order to reach...
Divulgative
Others
El Impuesto Personal sobre la Renta: Alternativas (with Adela Chaves and Antonia Díaz), Hacienda Pública Española (1990)
We compare different (direct) tax systems from an efficiency perspective.