Ernesto Mesa-Vázquez

• PhD Economics
• University of Almería

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Universities are committed to training students in competencies that extend beyond professional knowledge. Sustainability is a new paradigm that seeks to build a better world for today’s generation as well as those to come. The main tool for building this objective is training. A group of teachers from the Department of Economics and Business at th...

Rainwater harvesting (RWH) systems are presented as a feasible alternative to increase water resources for agricultural use. However, the installation of these systems in farmers’ holdings is very limited. It is necessary to know the opinions and attitudes of farmers towards these systems to develop specific measures that respond to their needs. Th...

The installation of covers over ponds for agricultural irrigation is a feasible alternative to reduce evaporative water losses. However, the installation of these systems continues to be very limited. Understanding the factors that influence the behaviour of farmers towards this type of installation is fundamental because they are the individuals m...

The intensification of agriculture has led to the deterioration of various ecosystem services, including pest control. The installation of hedgerows around greenhouses is presented as a viable option to maintain and favour natural enemies of pests. Despite the economic and environmental advantages of this type of facility, farmers are reluctant to...

Over the last three decades, behavioural economics has been gaining ground in the research on a wide range of agriculture-related themes. This is due to the diversity of the agents involved in the production systems and the agro-food value chains in which opposing interests must be reconciled. The main objective of this study is to examine the dyna...

Over the last two decades, experimental economics has been gaining relevance in the research of a wide range of issues related to agriculture. In turn, the agricultural activity provides an excellent field of study within which to validate the use of instruments employed by experimental economics. The aim of this study is to analyze the dynamics of...

One of the principal challenges faced by Mexican agriculture is the development of management models that are able to increase production while respecting the environment and generating wealth for society as a whole. In recent years, the number of studies analysing the sustainability of Mexican agriculture has grown significantly. The purpose of th...

This paper explores gender differences in overplacement in two independent and unrelated tasks. The first measures performance via Raven’s Progressive Matrices test, the second in a video presentation assessed by external judges. While in the first task, we expected participants to have prior knowledge about their own experience in similar tasks, w...

Crowdfunding is gaining popularity as a way of financing social sustainable initiatives. We performed a controlled economic experiment in MTurk by simulating a crowdfunding platform and developed a theoretical model that rationalizes herding behavior. The experiment was designed to test and quantify the causal effects of revealing specific informat...

Link: https://econpapers.repec.org/paper/grawpaper/20_2f05.htm Suggested citation: Ernesto Mesa-Vazquez, Ismael Rodr ´ ´ıguez-Lara, and Amparo Urbano (2020). Standard vs random dictator games: The effect of role uncertainty on generosity. ThE Papers, Department of Economic Theory and Economic History of Universidad de Granada. 20/05. Abstract: "...

Raw data of Working Paper "Standard vs random dictator games. The effect of role uncertainty on generosity". Data and codebook: https://x-science.org/xscience/#!Detail/10.23663/x2654 Citation (formatted-apa): Ernesto Mesa-Vazquez, Ismael Rodríguez-Lara, and Amparo Urbano (2020). Standard vs random dictator games: The effect of role uncertainty on...

It has been proved in this dissertation how experimental economics continues to be a tool that, as it nourishes theoretical economics (and viceversa), it keeps producing results that are necessary to understand how to articulate social relations which, ultimately, have consequences oneconomic relations. Specifically, Chapter 1 has studied how the d...

This paper explores gender differences in overplacement in two independent and unrelated tasks. The first refers to the performance in the Raven test, the second in a video presentation scored by external referees. While in the first task we expect subjects to have priors based on their own experience, for the second task we do not expect such expe...

Using a multiple-price list dictator game, this paper provides experimental evidence that the level of generosity is affected when we vary the probability that the dictator’s decision will be implemented. We also show that framing matters for generosity in that subjects are less generous when their choices under role uncertainty are such that subje...