Research Focus

• Experimental Social Sciences and Political Economy

Academic Career

• 2010 – present Research Fellow, MPI
• 2008 – 2010 Postdoctoral Scholar at Caltech
• 2008 PhD in Economics, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
• 2006 Visiting scholar at the Center of Rationality, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
• 2002 BA in Economics, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Publications

• Pure Strategy Equilibria in Non-zero Sum Colonel Blotto Games, with R. Hortala-Vallve
  International Journal of Game Theory, In Press.
• A Simple Mechanism for Resolving Conflict, with R. Hortala-Vallve
  Games and Economic Behavior, vol. 70, no. 2, pp. 375-391, 2010.

Working Papers

• “Competitive Equilibrium in Markets for Votes”, with Alessandra Casella and Thomas R. Palfrey, R&R at Journal of Political Economy
• “The Power of Sunspots: An Experimental Analysis”, with Dietmar Fehr and Frank Heinemann
• “An Experimental Comparison between Free Negotiation and a Multi-issue Point Mechanism”, with Rafael Hortala-Vallve and Rosemarie Nagel, R&R at Experimental Economics
  

Work in Progress

• Combinatorial Voting in the Lab
  joint with David Ahn and Santiago Oliveros
• Experimental Investigation of Caps and Tie-Breaking Rules in All-pay Auctions
  joint with Andrea Mattozzi, Roman Sheremeta and Nora Szech
• Divided Majority and Information Aggregation in Small Elections: Theory and Experiment
  joint with Laurent Bouton, Micael Castanheira and Jean-Benoit Pilet
• Incentives and Selection in Multi-Stage Tournaments
  joint with Andrea Mattozzi