E-mail: salvador.barbera@uab.es
Telephone: 93 581 18 14
Barberà Sández, Salvador
Director
PhD:
Northwestern University, 1975
Research Interests:
Public Economics, Social Choice and Coalition Formation.
Short Bio:
Salvador Barberà is professor of economics at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona since 1986 and director of MOVE. He is best known for his research on Social Choice Theory, including the study of strategy-proof rules, constitutional issues, the role of domain restrictions and the dynamics and stability of societies and social choice rules. He has also worked on coalition formation, decision-making under uncertainty and non-standard models of preferences and choice.
He is past-president of the Social Choice and Welfare Society and of the Southern European Economic Association (ASSET). He has been elected to the Council of different learned societies, including the Econometric Society, The Social Choice and Welfare Society and The Society for the Advancement of Game Theory. He has served as director of The Spanish Economic Review, and on the boards of different journals, like Econometrica, Games and Economic Behavior, Social Choice and Welfare, Mathematical Social Sciences and The Journal of Public Economic Theory. He has been recently appointed GSE Research Professor by the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics.
He is a recipient of the Rey Juan Carlos Award in Economics and of a Doctorate Honoris Causa from the Universidad Pablo de Olavide. He won the Rey Jaume I Prize for Economics in 2008.
Professor Barberà recently served as general secretary of research and technological policies in the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science (2004-2006). Prior to that, between 2000 and 2004, he was the first director of the Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA).
