The Spanish Minister of Science and Innovation, Cristina Garmendia, has announced the recepients of the 2010 Spanish National Research Prizes. This prize has been awarded since 2001 by the Spanish Government to recognize worthy contributions to the advancement of science, knowledge, and the progress of humanity. In this year's edition the "Pascual Madoz" prize on Social Science and Economics has been awarded to Professor Salvador Barberá, director of MOVE. Read more...
According to the Ministry's press release, MOVE's director has received the award for his essential contribution in Public Economics, where he is internationally recognized as one of the discipline leaders, and for his fundamental work in the construction of Spanish academic institutions, laying the foundations for the success of the next generations of economists. Along Professor Barberà, this edition has recognized María A. Blasco Marhuenda in the area of Biology, Enrique Castillo Ron in Engineering, Ignacio Bosque Muñoz in Humanities and Carlos Martínez Alonso in Medicine. See full list of 2010 and previous years awardees here.
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).
