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  Microeconomics, Behavioral Economics, and Experimental Economics (BeMiX)

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Social Sciences and Law Studies
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Annual reports

Annual report
  • Decision under risk and ambiguity, intertemporal choice and quality of life measurement.
  • Belief formation and decision-making under uncertainty.
  • Theoretical and experimental research in behavioral interventions ("nudges") and applications to health behavior.
  • Complexity and bounded rationality.
  • Information design, strategic communication and applications.
  • Coordination and cooperation under strategic uncertainty.
  • Mergers and entry into vertically related markets. Competition policy.
  • Contest theory and applications.

 

 

Services offered

We teach micro economics, behavioral economics, game theory and mathematics both at the undergraduate and at teh graduate level. in addition we give specialized course to professionals both within and outside of Spain. 

 

 

Results

We publish in the leading journals in economics, like American Economic Review, Econometrica, Journal of Economic Theory, Review of Economics and Statistics, and many specialized field journals. Our research is widely-cited, which shows our impact worldwide. We regularly organize specialized workshops and will host the Foundations of Utility and Risk (FUR) conference in 2026.

 

 

Available relevant infrastructure

We host the LATEX lab, a specialized facility to run experiments.

 

 

RELEVANT CONTRIBUTIONS TO RESEARCH PROJECTS
  • Project title: THE INNOVATION SOCIETY, SUSTAINABILITY AND ICTING
    Reference: 271574
    Competitive: Yes
    European: Yes
    Public: Yes
    Project sponsors: EUROPEAN COMMISSION
    Starting date: 01/03/2011
    Termination date: 31/05/2014
  • Project title: Measurement, Health, and CompetitionING
    Reference: CIPROM/2024/92
    Competitive: Yes
    European: No
    Public: Yes
    Project sponsors: Conselleria de Educación, Cultura, Universidades y Empleo
    Starting date: 01/09/2025
    Termination date: 31/08/2029
  • Project title: ECONOMICS AND GENDER: EMPIRICAL, THEORETICAL, AND EXPERIMENTAL PERSPECTIVESING
    Reference: CIPROM/2021/068
    Competitive: Yes
    European: No
    Public: Yes
    Project sponsors: GENERALITAT VALENCIANA
    Starting date: 01/01/2022
    Termination date: 31/12/2025
  • Project title: PRODUCTIVIDAD, RIESGO Y POLITICAS MACROECONOMICASING
    Reference: CIPROM/2021/060
    Competitive: Yes
    European: No
    Public: Yes
    Project sponsors: GENERALITAT VALENCIANA
    Starting date: 01/01/2022
    Termination date: 31/12/2025
  • Project title: Economía del Comportamiento y Retos Sociales ActualesING
    Reference: PID2022-142356NB-I00
    Competitive: Yes
    European: No
    Public: Yes
    Project sponsors: MINISTERIO DE CIENCIA, INNOVACION Y UNIVERSIDADES
    Starting date: 01/09/2023
    Termination date: 31/08/2027
  • Project title: Contrato predoctoral FPI asociado al proyecto PID2022-142356NB-I00 (Economía del Comportamiento y Retos Sociales Actuales)ING
    Reference: PREP2022-000903
    Competitive: Yes
    European: No
    Public: Yes
    Project sponsors: MINISTERIO DE CIENCIA, INNOVACION Y UNIVERSIDADES
    Starting date: 01/02/2024
    Termination date: 31/01/2028
  • Project title: Impacto económico y laboral de la migración en las comunidades autónomas de EspañaING
    Reference: HIUNPU/2024/02-PT1
    Competitive: Yes
    European: No
    Public: Yes
    Project sponsors: GENERALITAT VALENCIANA
    Starting date: 01/12/2024
    Termination date: 30/11/2028
  • Project title: Complejidad, medidas y aplicaciones en la mejora de toma de decisionesING
    Reference: CIACIF/2024/043
    Competitive: Yes
    European: No
    Public: Yes
    Project sponsors: Conselleria de Educación, Cultura, Universidades y Empleo
    Starting date: 24/11/2025
    Termination date: 23/11/2029
  • Project title: Information Transmission in a Polarized Society (ITPS)ING
    Reference: PROMETEO/2021/073
    Competitive: Yes
    European: No
    Public: Yes
    Project sponsors: GENERALITAT VALENCIANA
    Starting date: 01/01/2021
    Termination date: 31/12/2024
  • Project title: Ayudas para contratos predoctorales para la formación de doctores 2020ING
    Reference: PRE2020-094516
    Competitive: Yes
    European: No
    Public: Yes
    Project sponsors: MINISTERIO DE CIENCIA, INNOVACION Y UNIVERSIDADES
    Starting date: 01/09/2021
    Termination date: 31/08/2025

Publications See search box

RELEVANT CONTRIBUTIONS IN JOURNALS
  • Title: A Cold Shower for the Hot Hand Fallacy: Robust Evidence from Controlled Settings
    Authors: Sanjurjo, A
    Journals Review of Economics and Statistics
    Volume: 106
    Pages: 1607 - 1619
    Date: 2024
    ISSN: 0034-6535
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1162/rest_a_01280
  • Title: An Experiment on Outcome Uncertainty
    Authors: Ponti, G
    Journals Journal of Risk and Uncertainty
    Volume:
    Pages: -
    Date: 2024
    ISSN: 0895-5646
  • Title: Cognitive reflection in experimental anchored guessing games
    Authors: Ballester, C; Rodríguez Moral, Antonio; Vorsatz, Marc
    Journals Games and Economic Behavior
    Volume: 148
    Pages: 179 - 195
    Date: 2024
    ISSN: 0899-8256
    DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geb.2024.09.003
  • Title: Folk Theorem under Bankruptcy
    Authors: Beviá, C.; Corchón, Luis C.; Yasuda, Yosuke
    Journals Journal of Mathematical Economics
    Volume: 112
    Pages: -
    Date: 2024
    ISSN: 0304-4068
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmateco.2024.102986.
  • Title: Unpacking overconfidence when betting on oneself
    Authors: Bleichrodt, H.
    Journals Management Science
    Volume: 70
    Pages: 7042 - 7061
    Date: 2024
    ISSN: 0025-1909
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2021.00165
  • Title: Chain Restaurant Calorie Posting Laws, Obesity, and Consumer Welfare
    Authors: Jimenez-Gomez, D; Courtemanche, Charles; Price, Michael; Ouayogodé, Mariétou; Frisvold, David
    Journals Journal of the European Economic Association
    Volume:
    Pages: -
    Date:
    ISSN: 1542-4774
  • Title: An experiment on outcome uncertainty
    Authors: Albarran, P.; Alonso, Judit; Herrero, Carmen; Ponti, G; Sartarelli, Marcello; Topazio, Diletta
    Journals Journal of Risk and Uncertainty
    Volume: 70
    Pages: 147 - 170
    Date: 2025
    ISSN: 0895-5646
    DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11166-024-09448-0
  • Title: Entry-encouraging Vertical Integration
    Authors: Fauli-Oller, R.; , Joel Sandonís
    Journals Journal of Economics and Management Strategy
    Volume:
    Pages: -
    Date: 2025
    ISSN: 1058-6407
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/jems.70013
  • Title: Entry-encouraging Vertical Integration
    Authors: Sandonís, J.; , Faulí-Oller, Ramon
    Journals Journal of Economics and Management Strategy
    Volume:
    Pages: -
    Date: 2025
    ISSN: 1058-6407
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/jems.70013
  • Title: Motivated beliefs about stock returns(SSRN)
    Authors: Cueva, C; Iturbe-Ormaeche Cortajarena, Íñigo
    Journals Journal of Banking and Finance
    Volume: 178
    Pages: -
    Date: 2025
    ISSN: 0378-4266
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbankfin.2025.107510
RELEVANT PUBLISHED BOOKS
  • Title: Contest: Theory and Applications
    Authors: Beviá, C.; Corchón, Luis C.
    Editorial: Cambridge University Press
    Date: 2024
    ISBN: 9781009504409
  • Title: Behavioural economics: Advanced economic policy and theory
    Authors: Bleichrodt, H.
    Editorial:
    Date: 2025
    ISBN: 3031691652
RELEVANT PUBLISHED BOOK CHAPTERS
  • Book chapter title: Teoría de juegos y "nudging" para el buen gobierno
    Authors: Jimenez-Gomez, D
    Editorial:
    Pages: -
    Date:
    ISBN:
    Book title: Acicates (nudges), Buen Gobierno y Buena Administración: Aportaciones de las ciencias conductuales, nudging y sector público y privado 
  • Book chapter title: Capabilities, QALYS, and COVID
    Authors: Bleichrodt, H.
    Editorial:
    Pages: 88 - 109
    Date: 2024
    ISBN:
    Book title: The Cambridge Handbook of Healthcare: Productivity, efficiency, effectiveness

    DOI: 10-1017/9781009483766
  • Book chapter title: EXPERIMENTOS ECONÓMICOS EN EL LABORATORIO
    Authors: Ballester, C
    Editorial: EDITORIAL CENTRO DE ESTUDIOS RAMÓN ARECES, S.A.
    Pages: 25 - 59
    Date: 2024
    ISBN:
    Book title: Métodos experimentales en Economía
  • Book chapter title: Using results from learning to forecast laboratory experiments to predict the effect of futures markets on spot market stability
    Authors: De Jong, J. A. ; Sonnemans, Joep; Tuinstra, Jan
    Editorial:
    Pages: 250 - 266
    Date: 2022
    ISBN:
    Book title: In Handbook of Experimental Finance

    DOI: 10.4337/9781800372337
  • Book chapter title: La gestión de la pandemia de SARS-CoV-2 según la economía del comportamiento
    Authors: Jimenez-Gomez, D; , Jose María Abellán Perpiñán; , Juan E. del Llano Señarís
    Editorial: Asociación de Economía de la Salud (AES)
    Pages: 89 - 94
    Date: 2020
    ISBN:
    Book title: Economía de la salud (y más) de la COVID-19
  • Book chapter title: Horizontal Mergers in oligopoly
    Authors: Fauli-Oller, R.; Sandonís, J.
    Editorial: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited
    Pages: 7 - 33
    Date: 2018
    ISBN:
    Book title: Handbook of Game Theory and Industrial Organization, Vol II

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788112789
  • Book chapter title: Preferencias sociales
    Authors: , Cabrales, A.; Ponti, G
    Editorial: Antoni Bosch
    Pages: 109 - 124
    Date: 2011
    ISBN:
    Book title: Economía experimental y del comportamiento
  • Book chapter title: Investment incentives in auctions: an experiment
    Authors: , Grimm, V.; , Mengel, F.; Ponti, G; , Viianto, L.A.
    Editorial: Cambridge University Press (UK)
    Pages: 267 - 300
    Date: 2009
    ISBN:
    Book title: Experiments and Competition Policy
  • Book chapter title: War or Peace
    Authors: Beviá, C.; , Corchón, L
    Editorial: Fundación BBVA
    Pages: 317 - 334
    Date: 2009
    ISBN:
    Book title: The Political Economy of Democracy
  • Book chapter title: Inequality or Strategic Uncertainty? An Experimental Study on Incentives and Hierarchy
    Authors: Ponti, G; , Lopez-Pintado, D.; , Winter, E.
    Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
    Pages: 235 - 255
    Date: 2008
    ISBN:
    Book title: Games, Rationality and Behaviour: Essays on Behavioural Game Theory and Experiments
RELEVANT CONFERENCE PAPERS
  • Title: Divisionalization, vertical integration and entry
    Authors: Fauli-Oller, R.
    Type of participation: Ponencia
    Conference name: XXXIX Jornadas de Economía Industrial
    Event type: Internacional
    City of performance: Santander (CANTABRIA) (ESPAÑA)
    Date of performance: 04/09/2025
  • Title: Entry-encouraging vertical integration
    Authors: Fauli-Oller, R.
    Type of participation: Ponencia
    Conference name: 2025 European Economic Association Congress
    Event type: Internacional
    City of performance: Burdeos (FRANCIA)
    Date of performance: 25/08/2025
  • Title: The Sting of the Winner
    Authors: Beviá, C.
    Type of participation: Ponencia invitada
    Conference name: SAET meeting 2025
    Event type: Internacional
    City of performance: Ischia, Napoles (ITALIA)
    Date of performance: 03/07/2025
  • Title: Entry-encouraging vertical integration
    Authors: Fauli-Oller, R.
    Type of participation: Ponencia
    Conference name: 13º Oligo Workshop
    Event type: Internacional
    City of performance: Cambridge (REINO UNIDO (Gran Bretaña e Irlanda del Norte))
    Date of performance: 02/06/2025
  • Title: The Sting of the Winner
    Authors: Beviá, C.
    Type of participation: Ponencia
    Conference name: Oligo Workshop 2025
    Event type: Internacional
    City of performance:
    Date of performance: 02/06/2025
  • Title: Entry-encouraging vertical integration
    Authors: Fauli-Oller, R.
    Type of participation: Ponencia
    Conference name: IV Catalan Economic Society Congress
    Event type: Internacional
    City of performance: Barcelona (BARCELONA) (ESPAÑA)
    Date of performance: 09/05/2025
  • Title: Entrants and Incumbents
    Authors: Beviá, C.
    Type of participation: Ponencia
    Conference name: Annual meeting of the Association of Southern European Economic Theorists, ASSET 2024
    Event type: Internacional
    City of performance: Venecia (ITALIA)
    Date of performance: 31/10/2024
  • Title: Entry encouraging vertical integration
    Authors: Sandonís, J.
    Type of participation: Ponencia
    Conference name: 2024 ASSET Meeting
    Event type: Internacional
    City of performance: Venecia (ITALIA)
    Date of performance: 31/10/2024
  • Title: Entry-encouraging vertical integration
    Authors: Fauli-Oller, R.; , Joel Sandonís
    Type of participation: Ponencia
    Conference name: Jornadas de economía Industrial 2024
    Event type: Internacional
    City of performance: (ESPAÑA)
    Date of performance: 05/09/2024
  • Title: Divisionalization in Vertical Structures
    Authors: Fauli-Oller, R.
    Type of participation: Ponencia
    Conference name: EARIE 2024
    Event type: Internacional
    City of performance: AMSTERDAM (PAÍSES BAJOS (parte europea))
    Date of performance: 30/08/2024