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Economics, Journal of Theoretical Biology, Physical Review E, Physical Review Letters, PLoS ONE, Proceedings
of the National Academy of Sciences USA, Review of Economics Studies, Science, Social Choice and Welfare
and Theory and Decision. He is the author of several books such as Complex Social Networks published as an
Econometric Society Monograph, Economics and Theory of Games published by Cambridge University Press,
and Evolution Games and Economic Behavior published by Oxford University Press. He has been a Visiting
Professor at the Indian Statistical Institute, the Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna, the Hebrew University
of Jerusalem and the Universities of Harvard, California-San Diego, Boston, and Cornell (Personal web page:
http://www.eui.eu/Personal/fvega/).
Antonio Villar (Pablo de Olavide University, Seville)
Dr Villar has a degree in Economics from the Universitat de València and holds PhDs from the University of
Alicante and the University of Oxford. Regarded as a researcher worthy of his reputation, he is at present
Professor at Pablo Olavide University in Seville. He was awarded the XVI Premio Andalucía de Investigación Ibn
al Jatib Ibn (Prize in Research of Andalusia) for his involvement in the development of economics. His
specialized fields cover subjects of general equilibrium and welfare economics. He is the author of 12 books
and over 60 articles, published in journals such as Advances in Theoretical Economics, Economic Theory,
Economics Letters, International Journal of Game Theory, Journal of Economics, Journal of Public Economics,
Journal of Public Economic Theory, Mathematical Social Sciences, Review of Income and Wealth, Scandinavian
Journal of Economics, Social Choice and Welfare, among others. He has been Visiting Scholar at the Centre for
Operation Research and Econometrics (Louvain-la-Neuve), at the Universities of Stanford, Oxford and York, the
Institute for Advanced Studies (Vienna) and the European University Institute (Florence). He was coordinator of
the Economics and Law Area of the National Evaluation and Prospective Agency (1989-91), and in charge of
the Evaluation Unit of the Science and Technology Office of the Valencian government (2002-2003). He was
also coordinator of the 2010 Consolider-Ingenio Program for the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science
(2005-2007) and Vice-Rector of Research and Technological Transference and first vice-rector of the Pablo
Olavide University (2007-2010). He has participated in the revision of the criteria for preparing human
development indices of the United Nations and is currently the main researcher of a project for the Andalusian
Regional Government and a research project for the National R&D Plan (Personal web page:
http://web.me.com/antonio.villar).
2.5. ASSOCIATE RESEARCHERS
Francisco Alcalá (University of Murcia)
Dr Alcalá is a graduate in Economics with special honors and has a PhD from the Universitat de València. He is
at present Professor in Foundations of Economic Analysis at the University of Murcia. He has been a visiting
lecturer at the CIDE (Mexico) and at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona), as well as a visiting scholar at
the University of California (Berkeley), Harvard University, New York University and Columbia University. He
has directed National R&D Plan projects, and his specialist fields are economic growth, the international
economy and industrial organization, of which he has published several books and articles in national and
international specialist journals (Personal web page: http://sites.google.com/site/alcalapaco/).
Joaquín Aldás (Universitat de València)
Dr Aldás graduated (1993) and obtained his PhD (1998) in Economics and Business Studies from the
Universitat de València, where he is Associate Professor in Marketing and Market Research. He has been
Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow. His research interests are consumer behavior, advertising
media planning and quantitative methods in marketing research. He has published his work in specialized
journals such as Equal Opportunities International, European Journal of Innovation Management, European
Journal of Marketing, Journal of Air Transport Management, Journal of Product and Brand Management,
Journal of Services Marketing, Industrial Management & Data Systems, International Journal of Bank
Marketing, International Journal of Electronic Business, International Journal of Internet Marketing and
Advertising, Neural Computing and Applications, Online Information Review, Qualitative Marketing Research,
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