Research

• Major fields: Health Economics. Public Economics. Political Economy.
• Sub-fields: Economics of Information. Applied Game Theory.

• "A Theoretical Approach to Dual Practice Regulations in the Health Sector", (jointly with Inés Macho-Stadler). Journal of Health Economics, forthcoming.

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• "Fiscal Decentralization and Political Budget Cycles, (jointly with Jean Hindriks and Nicolás Porteiro). Journal of Public Economic Theory, forthcoming.

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• "Whom do physicians work for? An Analysis of Dual Practice in the Health Sector " (jointly with Ariadna García-Prado). Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, 36 (2): 265-294, 2011.

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• “Gatekeeping versus Direct Access when Patient Information Matters". Health Economics, 19: 730-754, 2010.

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• “Implementing Registries and Results Databases of Clinical Trials: Is there a Side Effect” (jointly with Matthias Dahm and Nicolás Porteiro). Expert Review of Pharmaeconomics & Outcomes Research, 10(3): 247-251, 2010.

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• "Trials, Tricks and Transparency: How Disclosure Rules Affect Clinical Knowledge" (jointly with Matthias Dahm and Nicolás Porteiro). Journal of Health Economics, 28: 1141-1153, 2009.

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• "Strategic Quality Competition and the Porter Hypothesis", (jointly with Francisco J. André and Nicolás Porteiro). Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 57: 182–194, 2009.

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• "Policy and Regulatory Responses to Dual Practice in the Health Sector" (jointly with Ariadna García-Prado). Health Policy 84: 142-152, 2007.

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• “On a Policy of Transferring Public Patients to Private Practice”. Health Economics 14 (5): 513-527, 2005.
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• “Optimal Sharing of Surgical Costs in the Presence of Queues” (jointly with Carmen Herrero). Mathematical Methods of Operations Research 59(3): 435-446, 2004.

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• “Should Physicians’ Dual Practice Be Limited? An Incentive Approach”. Health Economics 13(6): 505-524, 2004.

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Other Publications (in Spanish)

• "Teoría y Política del Copago en Sanidad" (jointly with José Luis Pinto and Nicolás Porteiro). Technical Report for the Cátedra de Economía de la Salud, Consejería de Salud (Junta de Andalucía) and Universidad Pablo de Olavide, 1/2011.

• "Algunas consideraciones sobre el papel del copago en sanidad" (jointly with José Luis Pinto and Nicolás Porteiro). Situación Andalucía, BBVA Research, July 2011.

• "Nuevos Enfoques en el Diseño de los Copagos Farmacéuticos" (jointly with Nicolás Porteiro). Revista Temas de Actualidad nº 48, Fundación Centro de Estudios Andaluces, 2010.
• "El comportamiento de los profesionales sanitarios en la Unión Europea: Reformas existentes y desafíos pendientes" (jointly with Ariadna García-Prado). In Álvaro Hidalgo, Juan del Llano and Santiago Pérez (eds.): Recursos Humanos para la Salud: suficiencia, adecuación y mejora. Barcelona: Masson-Elsevier, 2007.

• “El pluriempleo entre los profesionales sanitarios: un análisis de sus causas e implicaciones” (jointly with Ariadna García-Prado). Gaceta Sanitaria (Journal of the Spanish Society of Public Health and Health Administration) 20 (Supl 2): 29-40, 2006.

Work in Progress

• "An Axiomatic Approach for the Design of Pharmaceutical Copayments", (jointly with José Luis Pinto and Nicolás Porteiro).
• “Raising the Stakes to Increase Transparency in Information Transmission” (jointly with Matthias Dahm and Nicolás Porteiro).
• "Sweetening the carrot: Motivating public physicians for better performance" (jointly with Eduard Alonso and Ariadna García-Prado).