Javier Rivas

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Research Publications: o Demographic Interactions of the Last Hunter-Gatherers and the First Farmers, (2025) (with A. Cortell-Nicolau, E. Crema, S. Shennan, O. Garcia-Puchol, J. Kolar, R. Staniuk and A. Timpson), forthcoming in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). o Interest Groups, Campaign Contributions and Political Competition (2025), forthcoming in Social Choice and Welfare. o Regime Change and Critical Junctures (2023), European Journal of Political Economy 76, 102269. 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 Contests with a Jury, 2024. o Sequential Cheap Talk Consultation and the Optimal Ordering of Experts (with M. Le Quement and K. Kawamura), 2025. o Vying for Support Lobbying a Legislator with Uncertain Preferences (with N. Kokonas and A. Go), 2023. o Voting with Correlated Information, 2023. 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.