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Education |
- Ph. D. in Economics, Oxford University 1988.
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- Doctor, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona 1973.
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Research Interests |
- Income distribution and inequality
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Regional economics
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Fiscal federalism
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Ongoing projects |
- Polarization
and conflict
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Publications |
- "Stochastic Dominance
and Absolute Risk Aversion" (with Jordi Caballé),
Social Choice and Welfare 2006, forthcoming.
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-"An
Extensión of a Measure of Polarizatin, with an applicatin to the
income distribution of frive OECD countries" (with Carlos Gradín
and Debraj Ray), Journal of Economic Inequality, 5, 2007, 1-19.
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- "Inequality, Lobbying and Resource Allocation" (with
Debraj Ray), American Economic Review, 96,
(2006), 1-30.
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- "Introduction" (with C. Barret) in "Social Groups
and Economic Inequality" a special issue of the Journal
of Economic Inequality, 2005 (3) 187-191.
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- "Polarization:
Concepts, Measurement, Estimation" (with Jean-Ives Duclos
and Debraj Ray), Econometrica, 74, (2004),
1737-1772,
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- "Olson vs. Coase: coalitional worth in conflict"
(with Jozsef
Sákovics), Theory and Decision 55,
(2004), 339-357.
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- "Overlapping Generations Models",
Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems, UNESCO, EOLSS Publishers,
Oxford 2003.
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- "Collective Action and the Group
Size Paradox" (with Debraj
Ray), American Political Science Review 95 (2001),
663-672.
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- "Social Rules are not Inmune to Conflict",
(with Debraj
Ray), Economics of Governance, (2001), 2, 59-67.
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- "Wealth Constraints, Lobbying and
the Efficiency of Public Allocation" (with Debraj
Ray), European Economic Review 44 (2000), 694-705.
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- "Regional Convergence in Europe and
the Industry-Mix: a Shift-Share Analysis", Regional Science
and Urban Economics 30 (2000), 353-364.
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- "Conflict and Distribution" (with
Debraj
Ray) Journal of Economic Theory 87 (1999), 379-415.
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- "Costly Transfer Institutions and
the Core in an Overlapping Generations Model" (with M. Engineer
and Jozsef
Sákovics) Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization,
32 (1997), 285-300.
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Unpublished Papers |
- "On the
Salience of Ethnic Conflict" (with Debraj Ray), updated
version October 2006.
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- “Polarization,
Fractionalization and Conflict” (with Debraj Ray), September
2006.
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- "The Social
Contract with Endogenous Sentiments" (with Matteo Cervellati
and Laurence Kranich), August 2006.
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- "A
Model of Ethnic Conflict" (with Debraj Ray), May 2006.
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- "A Theory
of Agreements in the Shadow of Conflict"(with Jozsef
Sákovics), February 2006.
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- “Polarization
and Conflict: Theoretical and Empirical Issues” (with
G. Schneider), November 2005.
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- “A
Comparison of Polarization Measures” (with Debraj Ray),
September 2005.
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- "Economic
Integration and Cross-Country Inequality", September
2004.
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- "Inequality and
Public Resource Allocation" (with Debraj Ray), June 2003.
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- "Economic
Polarization in the Mediterranean Basin: An Introduction to the
Notion and Measurement of Polarization", February 2002.
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Work in progress |
- "Social Ethics and Social Structure
ina Theory of Endogenous Sentiments" (with Larry Kranich)
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- "Endogenous Income Mobility" (with Debraj Ray)
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- "Identity" (with Tzachi Gilboa)
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- "On Group Identity" (with Laura Mayoral and Debraj
Ray)
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- "Redistributive Taxation and Public Spending"
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Public Lectures |
- "Polarization
and Conflict", Spring School in International Economics
and in Industrial Organization, Aix-en-Provence, June 8th, 2006.
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“Redistributive
Taxation and Public Expenditure”, Presidential Address,
ECINEQ, Berlin, Julio 2007
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Teaching |
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Income distribution (GPEM, Universitat
Pompeu Fabra), 2004-2005.
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