Research

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

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

  [pdf of the working paper version available at RePEc]

• "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)

• "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.

• "A Theoretical Approach to Dual Practice Regulations in the Health Sector", (jointly with Inés Macho-Stadler). Working Paper ECON 11.01, Universidad Pablo de Olavide. Invited revision and resubmission.

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).

• "Term-Limits and Welfare", (jointly with Jean Hindriks and Nicolás Porteiro).

• "A Principal-Agent Foundation for the Porter Hypothesis", (jointly with Francisco J. André and Nicolás Porteiro).

• “On the Design of Optimal Policies for the Enforcement of Law: Quantitative versus Qualitative Deterrence”, (jointly with Nicolás Porteiro).