(see here for recent work and here for publications by project)

Journal articles

• ‘The effect of COVID certificates on vaccine uptake, health outcomes, and the economy’ with Miquel Oliu-Barton, Nicolas Woloszko, Lionel Guetta-Jeanrenaud, Philippe Aghion, Patrick Artus, Arnaud Fontanet, Philippe Martin, and Guntram Wolff, Nature Communications, 13, 3942 (2022).
  • See here for related work and coverage.
• ‘Elimination versus mitigation of SARS-CoV-2 in the presence of effective vaccines’ with Miquel Oliu-Barton, Yann Algan, Michael Baker, Agnes Binagwaho, Gregory J Dore, Ayman El-Mohandes, Arnaud Fontanet, Andreas Peichl, Viola Priesemann, Guntram B Wolff, Gavin Yamey, Jeffrey V Lazarus, Lancet Global Health, 10, 142-147 (2022).
  
• ‘Green zoning: an effective policy tool to tackle the Covid-19 pandemic’ with Miquel Oliu-Barton, Health Policy, 125, 981-986 (2021).
  • See here for related work and coverage.
• ‘SARS-CoV-2 elimination, not mitigation, creates best outcomes for health, the economy, and civil liberties’ with Miquel Oliu-Barton, Philippe Aghion, Patrick Artus, Ilona Kickbusch, Jeffrey V. Lazarus, Devi Sridhar, and Samantha Vanderslott, Lancet, 397, 2234-2236 (2021).
  • Coverage: The New York Times, Financial Times, Daily Mail, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Le Monde, Libération, Le Temps, Euronews, Le Devoir, The Hill, 20 minutos, Die Welt, The Guardian (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6), New Scientist, The Atlantic, Exame, L’Express, Die Zeit, Science, Politico
• ‘The importance of memory for price discovery in decentralized markets’ with Jacob D. Leshno, Games and Economic Behavior, 125, 62-78 (2021).
• ‘Endogenous social distancing and its underappreciated impact on the epidemic curve’ with Marko Gosak, Moritz U. G. Kraemer, Heinrich H. Nax, and Matjaž Perc, Scientific Reports, 11, 3093 (2021).
• ‘Market sentiments and convergence dynamics in decentralized assignment economies’ with Heinrich H. Nax, International Journal of Game Theory, 49, 275-298 (2020).
• ‘Core stability and core selection in a decentralized labor matching market’ with Heinrich H. Nax, Games, 7, 10 (2016).
• ‘Evolutionary dynamics and equitable core selection in assignment games’ with Heinrich H. Nax, International Journal of Game Theory, 44, 4, 903-932 (2015).
• ‘Learning efficient Nash equilibria in distributed systems’ with H. Peyton Young, Games and Economic Behavior, 75, 882-897 (2012).

Conference articles

• ‘Markets and Transaction Costs’ with Simon Jantschgi, Heinrich H. Nax, and Marek Pycia, 23rd ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC ’22), 2022.
• ‘Statistical discrimnation in stable matchings’ with Rémi Castera and Patrick Loiseau, 23rd ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC ’22), 2022.
• ‘Selection in the presence of implicit bias: The advantage of intersectional constraints’ with Anay Mehrotra and Nisheeth K. Vishnoi, ACM FAccT, 2022.
• ‘Quick or cheap? Breaking points in dynamic markets’ with Panayotis Mertikopoulos and Heinrich H. Nax, 21st ACM conference on Economics and Computation (EC ’20), 2020. Virtual Event, Hungary. [click here for full paper]
• ‘Control by Social Influence: Durables vs. Non-Durables’, 58th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, December 11-13, 2019. Nice, France.
• ‘Decentralized dynamics and fast convergence in the assignment game’, 16th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC ’15), 2015. Portland, Oregon.
• ‘Decentralized dynamics to optimal and stable states in the assignment game’ with Heinrich H. Nax and H. Peyton Young, 52nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, December 10-13, 2013. Florence, Italy.

Book chapters and policy articles

• ‘Health pass and green zones: how to contain the virus while vaccination progresses’ with Miquel Oliu-Barton and Anne Bucher, Center for Economic Policy & Political Economy – EsadeEcPol, Policy Insight #30, 1-13 (2021).
  • French version (Terra Nova, 20 April 2021).
• ‘Focus mass testing: How to overcome low test accuracy’ with Miquel Oliu-Barton, Center for Economic Policy & Political Economy – EsadeEcPol, Policy Insight #25, 1-16 (2020).
  • French version (Terra Nova, 18 December 2020), Spanish version.
• ‘A vaccination policy by zones’ with Miquel Oliu-Barton, Terra Nova (2 October 2020).
  • French version.
  • Shorter discussion in VoXEU.
  • Updated version with focus on Spain: Center for Economic Policy & Political Economy – EsadeEcPol, Español.
  • Media coverage: La Vanguardia, BFM TV.
• ‘Green bridges: Reconnecting Europe to avoid economic disaster’ with Miquel Oliu-Barton, in Europe in the Time of Covid-19, chapter 11, edited by A. Bénassy-Quéré and B. Weder di Mauro, CEPR Press (2020).
  • Longer version in English, Deutsch, Français, Español, Italiano, Center for Economic Policy & Political Economy – EsadeEcPol, Policy Insight #10, 1-10 (2020).
  • Updated version in: ‘La Economia Española en tiempos de pandemia’, chapter 24, edited by Á. de la Fuente, T. Roldán, and J. F. Jimeno, Debate – Penguin Random House (2020).
  • Short, related article: ‘Toward a European network of “green zones” to avoid summer collapse’ with Miquel Oliu-Barton, OECD Forum (19 May 2020).
  • Updated VoxEU column after EU introduces zoning: ‘Green zones: A safe path towards free movement and a lasting recovery’ (22 October 2020).
  • Media coverage, see here.
• ‘Exit strategy: From self-confinement to green zones’ with Miquel Oliu-Barton and Luc Attia, Center for Economic Policy & Political Economy – EsadeEcPol, Policy Insight #6, 1-12 (2020).
  • Also in Deutsch, Français, Español, Italiano.
  • Shorter discussion in VoxEU.
  • Media coverage, see here.
• ‘Nichtkooperative Spieltheorie’ [Non-cooperative game theory] with Heinrich H. Nax, in Rational Choice, edited by Andreas Tutic, De Gruyter (2020).

Short policy briefs (without long version)

• ‘Aiming for zero Covid-19 to ensure economic growth’ with Philippe Aghion, Patrick Artus and Miquel Oliu-Barton, VoxEU (31 March 2021).
  • Republished in Japanese by 経済学101, Economics 101.
• ‘Exit strategy: Turning Europe’s Green Zoning strategy into a success’ with Miquel Oliu-Barton, Center for Economic Policy & Political Economy – EsadeEcPol (3 February 2021); also in Español.
• ‘Travel in Harmony: European co-ordination to protect green zones’ with Miquel Oliu-Barton, OECD Forum (28 October 2020).
• ‘Beyond Country Borders: Local measures and international co-ordination to face COVID-19’ with Miquel Oliu-Barton, OECD Forum (18 August 2020).

Media articles

• ‘COVID certificates — contentious but effective?’ with Miquel Oliu-Barton, Nature Behind The Paper blog-post (8 July 2022).
• ‘Covid-19 : « Le passe sanitaire doit servir à accélérer les doses de rappel »’ with Miquel Oliu-Barton, Le Monde (24 November 2021).
  
• ‘Covid-19 : le faux dilemme entre santé, économie et libertés’ with Philippe Aghion, Patrick Artus, and Miquel Oliu-Barton, Commentaire (June 2021).
• ‘Le recours temporaire à un passe sanitaire est nécessaire si nous voulons une sortie de crise durable’ with Philippe Aghion, Philippe Martin, and Miquel Oliu-Barton, Le Monde (2 June 2021).
• ‘Covid-19 : « Nous avons besoin d’un “passe sanitaire” fiable, temporaire et accessible pour tout le monde »’ with Anne Bucher and Miquel Oliu-Barton, Le Monde (22 March 2021).
• ‘Aiming for zero Covid-19: Europe needs to take action’ with a group of international scientists, published by Bruegel, de Volkskrant, El Pais, la Repubblica, Le Monde, Rzeczpospolita, Süddeutsche Zeitung (15 February 2021).
• ‘Vacunación: igualdad, fraternidad… y eficacia’ with Miquel Oliu-Barton, El Mundo (15 December 2020).
• ‘Covid-19 : « Qui vacciner en priorité ? Selon quels critères ? Comment hiérarchiser tout cela ? »’ with Miquel Oliu-Barton, Le Monde (21 November 2020).
• ‘Covid-19 : sanctuarisons les « zones vertes » !’ with Miquel Oliu-Barton, Les Echos (14 October 2020).
• ‘Más allá de las fronteras nacionales’ with Miquel Oliu-Barton, El Pais (17 September 2020).
• ‘Coronavirus : il faut « un plan de reconfinements ciblés réaliste, intelligible et commun »’ with Miquel Oliu-Barton, Le Monde (26 August 2020).
• ‘Sauver la saison touristique européenne’ with Miquel Oliu-Barton, Le Monde (9 May 2020).
• ‘Conectando las ‘zonas verdes’ de Europa: una propuesta para salvar el turismo’ with Miquel Oliu-Barton, El Mundo (6 May 2020).
• ‘Il faut une méthode de déconfinement efficace et sécurisée’ with Miquel Oliu-Barton and Luc Attia, Le Monde (27 April 2020).
• ‘Green zones: a mathematical proposal for how to exit from the COVID-19 lockdown’ with Miquel Oliu-Barton, The Conversation (17 April 2020).
  • Republished by the World Economic Forum and The National Interest.
• ‘Online polls are everywhere: here’s why we should be wary before trusting them’ with Bernhard Clemm von Hohenberg and Michael Mäs, The Conversation (8 February 2018).

Old working papers

• ‘Micro influence and macro dynamics of opinion formation’ with Bernhard Clemm von Hohenberg and Michael Mäs.