Joan Esteban has been member of the Institute for Economic Analysis (IAE-CSIC) since its beginning in 1985. He was director of IAE from 1989 to 1991 and from 2001 to 2006. He is BSE Emeritus Research Professor.
Professor Esteban coordinated the EU funded research project "Polarization and Conflict" (www.polarizationandconflict.org) from 2004-2008 and now holds an Axa Research Fund grant. He served as Secretary General of the International Economic Association (2011-2017) and is a Rey Jaime I laureate in Economics (2007). In 2014 he was awarded the Urrutia Elejalde Foundation Diversity Prize.
His research has been published in the American Economic Review, American Political Science Review, Econometrica, Economics of Governance, Economics Letters, European Economic Review, International Economic Review, Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organization, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Economic Inequality, Journal of Peace Research, Regional Science and Urban Economics, Social Choice and Welfare, and Theory and Decision.
- BSE - "la Caixa" Foundation Research Grants on Socioeconomic Well-being (2018)
- Urrutia Elejalde Foundation Diversity Prize (2014)
- Rey Jaume I Prize in Economics (2007)
Working Papers
Benevolent Mediation in the Shadow of Conflict
Publications
Recognition ProgramJoan-Maria Esteban, Gilat Levy and Laura Mayoral
Personal Liberties, Religiosity, and Effort
European Economic Review, Vol.120, 103320, November 2019, 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2019.103320
Joan-Maria Esteban and Laura Mayoral
A politico-economic model of public expenditure and income taxation
SERIEs, Vol.10, 130–163, July 2019, 10.1007/s13209-019-0198-4
Recognition ProgramJoan-Maria Esteban, Gilat Levy and Laura Mayoral