My Research
Publications
1. Does free information provision
crowd out costly information acquisition? It's a matter of timing (joint
with Diego Aycinena, Alexander Elbittar and Lucas Rentschler), [latest version], ITAM Working Paper 2020-01,
forthcoming in Games and Economic
Behavior
2. Electoral Maldistricting (joint
with Romans Pancs and Tridib Sharma), [latest version],
forthcoming in International Economic
Review
3. Ignorance
and Bias in Collective Decision: Theory and Experiments (with Alexander
Elbittar, Cesar Martinelli
and Thomas Palfrey) ITAM Working
Paper 2014-01, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 174 (2020):
332-359
4. Coattails
and the Forces that Drive Them: Evidence from Mexico (with Emilio Gutierrez, Paulina Lopez and
Alejandra Vasquez) ITAM
Working Paper 2015-05 European Journal of Political Economy, 58 (2019):
64-81
5. Revealed
Votes, Social Choice and Welfare,
51 (2018): 281 - 296
Earlier version was
circulated as Vote revelation: empirical characterization
of scoring rules ITAM Working
Paper 2011-02 [latest version]
6. Endogenous
Platforms: stochastic membership (with with Francisco Marhuenda
and Ignacio Ortuno-Ortin ITAM
Working Paper 2013-09 Economic
Theory, 62 (2016): 839 - 866
7. Negative Advertising During Mexico s 2012 Presidential Campaign (with Emilio Gutierrez and Zeev Thepris), in The Political Economy of Social Choices, Maria Gallego and Norman Schofield, (eds.), Springer Verlag: 2016
8. An experimental study of Demand
Reduction and Bidder Collusion in Uniform- and Discriminatory-Price Auctions
(with Alexander
Elbittar), ITAM Working
Paper 2008-01 [latest version] in Emile Borel and
the Notion of Strategy: 90th Anniversary, David Cantala, ed., Colegio de Mexico 2014
9. Group Decision-Making
and Voting in Ulltimatum Bargaining: An experimental
Study (with Alexander
Elbittar and Laura Sour), ITAM Working
Paper 2004-07, B.E. Journal of
Economic Analysis and Policy (Contributions) , 11 (2011): article 53
10. Vote
revelation: empirical content of scoring rules, in: Schofield, Norman, and Gonzalo Caballero (eds.).
Political Economy of Institutions, Democracy and
Voting. Berlin: Springer-Verlag: 2011, 411-417
11. An
experimental study of the citizen-candidate model (with Alexander
Elbittar) in Political Economy of
Democracy, E. Aragones, C. Bevia, H. Lllavador and N. Schofield,
(Eds.), Fundacion BBVA: 2009
12. Endogenous
platforms: the case of many parties (with Francisco
Marhuenda and Ignacio Ortuno-Ortin), International Journal of Game Theory, 35 (2007): 223-249.
13. Anonymity in Large
Societies (with Cesar Martinelli and Ricard
Torres), ITAM Working
Paper 2002-11, Social Choice and
Welfare 25 (2005): 187-205.
14. An
example of non-existence of three-community equilibrium,
Journal of Public Economic Theory, 7 (2005):
285-294 .
15. A Model of
Endogenous Political Party Platforms (with Francisco
Marhuenda and Ignacio Ortuno-Ortin), Economic Theory, 24
(2004): 373-394. IVIE
Working Paper AD 2003-12
16. When
the State is Untrustworthy: Public Finance and Private Banking in Porfirian Mexico (with Noel
Maurer), Journal of Economic History, 64 (2004): 1087-1107. ITAM Working
Paper 2004-02
17. Sorting
Equilibrium in a Multi-jurisdiction Model, Journal of Economic
Theory, 116 (2004): 138-154.
Working
papers and work in progress
1.
How
Many Sorting Equilibria are There (generically), ITAM Working
Paper 2003-03 [latest version]
2.
"My
friends: it would be an error to accept": Communication and group identity
in a bargaining setting (with
Alexander
Elbittar) [latest version], ITAM Working
Paper 2012-03