Javier Rivas

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Publications:

o   Regime Change and Critical Junctures (2022), forthcoming in the European Journal of Political Economy.

o    Expressive voting with booing and cheering: Evidence from Britain (2021) (with J. Rockey), European Journal of Political Economy 67, 101956.

o    Voter heterogeneity and political corruption (2020) (with E. Aragones and A. Toth), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 170, 206-221.

o    Common value elections with private information and informative priors theory and experiments (2017) (with F. Mengel), Games and Economic Behavior 104, 190-221.

o    Deliberation, Leadership and Information Aggregation (2017) (with C. Rodriguez-Alvarez), Manchester School 85, 395-429.

o    Cash Incentives and Unhealthy Food Consumption (2017) (with M. Flores), Bulletin of Economic Research 69, 42-56.

o    Private Agenda and Re-election Incentives (2016), Social Choice and Welfare 46 (4), 899-915.

o    Mechanism Design and Bounded Rationality: the Case of Type Misreporting (2015), Mathematical Social Sciences 78, 6-13.

o    Cooperation, Imitation and Partial Rematching (2013), Games and Economic Behavior 79, 148-162.

o    Probability Matching and Reinforcement Learning (2013), Journal of Mathematical Economics 49 (1), 17-21.

o    An Axiomatization of Learning Rules when Counterfactuals are not Observed (2012) (with F. Mengel), The B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics 12 (1).

o    The Effects of the Market Structure on the Adoption of Evolving  Technologies (2010), Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 34 (12), 2485-2493.

o    Friendship Selection (2009), International Journal of Game Theory 38 (4), 521-538.

Working Papers:

o    Demographic Interactions of the Last Hunter-Gatherers and the First Farmers, (with A. Cortell-Nicolau, E. Crema, S. Shennan, O. Garcia-Puchol, J. Kolar, R. Staniuk and A. Timpson), 2024.

o    Voting with Correlated Information, 2023.

o    Sequential Expert Consultation: On the Optimal Ordering of Product Reviews (with M. Le Quement and K. Kawamura), 2023.

o    Vying for Support Lobbying a Legislator with Uncertain Preferences (with N. Kokonas and A. Go), 2021.

o    Lobbying, Campaign Contributions and Political Competition, 2021.

o    Minimax Regret in Practice - Four Examples on Treatment Choice, 2006 (with P. Eozenou and K. Schlag). Download the Matlab Codes or the Stata Codes.