Jose VilaUniversity of Valencia | UV · Center of research for economic and social behaviour (ERICES) & Intelligent Data Analysisi Laboratory (IDAL)
Jose Vila
PhD in Economics - Master Degree in Mathematics
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Business disruption from cyberattacks is a growing concern, yet cyberinsurance uptake remains low. Using an online behavioural economics experiment with 4800 participants across four EU countries, this study tests a predictive model of cyberinsurance adoption, incorporating elements of Protection Motivation Theory (PMT) and the Theory of Planned Be...
We conducted an incentivized lab experiment examining the effect of gain vs. loss-framed warning messages on online security behavior. We measured the probability of suffering a cyberattack during the experiment as the result of five specific security behaviors: choosing a safe connection, providing minimum information during the sign-up process, c...
Este artículo presenta un estudio comparativo de dos metodologías de medición de impacto de políticas públicas: los métodos baseline y cuasi-experimental. Ambos métodos son aplicados a la evaluación de las políticas activas de empleo implementadas en la Comunidad Valenciana en el periodo 2012-2015. La aplicación de ambos métodos a un mismo conjunto...
This paper analyzes whether nudging has a relevant effect on financially literate individuals, even if these individuals are professionals with extensive experience of finance and pensions. The paper presents the results of a field experiment with employees of a leading life and pensions company in Spain. The results of the experiment show that fin...
Mathematical programming has been extensively used to account for risk in farmers' decision making. The recent development of the positive mathematical programming (PMP) has renewed the need to incorporate risk in a more robust and flexible way. Most of the existing PMP-risk models have been tested at farm-type level and for a very limited sample o...
Book chapter on our H2020 cybersecurity project, CYBECO. Published in this book on European Research around cybersecurity:
Cybersecurity and Privacy issues are becoming an important barrier for a trusted and dependable global digital society development. Cyber-criminals are continuously shifting their cyber-attacks specially against cyber-physical...
Public procurement accounts for more than 10% of global GDP. Digital transformation of public procurement creates new opportunities for value creation in international markets. Identifying and analyzing the companies, especially the SMEs, that can capitalize on these opportunities is therefore an important issue for policymaking, management, and sc...
We conducted an online experiment (n = 2024) on a representative sample of internet users in Germany, Sweden, Poland, Spain and the UK to explore the effect of notifications on security behaviour. Inspired by protection motivation theory (PMT), a coping message advised participants on how to minimize their exposure to risk and a threat appeal highl...
Since 2015, the emergence of the new forms of work offered by online labour platforms is fuelling the debate on social protection of precarious workers and ‘bogus self-employment’. This study gathers evidence in support of the European Commission initiative aiming at providing adequate social protection regardless the type of employment contract.
Agricultural production is characterized for being a risky business due to weather variability, market instability, plant diseases as well as climate change and political economy uncertainty. The modelling of risk at farm level is not new, however, the inclusion of risk in Positive Mathematical Programming (PMP) models is particularly challenging....
Ensuring safe and satisfactory online shopping activity, especially among vulnerable consumers such as elderly and less educated citizens, is part of a larger set of consumer policy objectives seeking to strengthen trust in the electronic marketplace. This article contributes to that goal by testing the effectiveness of nudges intended to prevent t...
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L'objectif de ce chapitre est de formuler, estimer et tester une méthodologie robuste pour la modélisation explicite du risque dans un modèle d'exploitation agricole individuel à l'échelle de l'UE.
This paper assesses the impact of the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness’ (Board of Executives (BOE) Order ECC/2316/2015. Economy and Competitiveness Ministry, Spain, 2015) new regulation for financial product labeling. We design and conduct an economic experiment where subjects make risky investment decisions under three different tre...
Contexts, the set of alternatives under consideration, usually influence consumer choice. One of the context effects, namely the attraction effect, spawns considerable conceptual and empirical research, consistent with the aforementioned influence in decision-making. Very recently, some authors have questioned the practical relevance and applicabil...
Information graphics are visualizations that convey information about data trends and distributions. Data visualization and the application of graphs is increasingly important in business decision making, for instance, in big data analysis. However, relatively little information exists about how people extract information from graphs and how the fr...
Using a behavioral-experimental economics approach, this paper shows that the location of a potential innovator has an impact on her or his innovation attitude, specifically on her or his innovation optimism. Moreover, such an impact is a consequence of the way in which they can access the information about the chances of succeeding if they initiat...
In local social migrations, agents move from their initial location looking for a better local social environment. Social migrations processes do not change the number of social agents of a given type (i.e. the empirical distribution of the population) but their spatial location. Although cellular automata seems to appear as a natural approach to m...
This chapter illustrates the potentiality of the application of experimental-behavioral methods to gain global competitive advantages based in the anticipated measurement of how consumers and citizens would behave when exposed to specific innovation actions to be implemented by an organization. To this end, the chapter presents a brief background o...
This paper presents a basic neuro-‐experiment to explore the possibility of the application of EEG-‐based biomarkers to analyze emotional response to the ultimatum game. Using a basic EEG registration tool (Emotiv EPOC technology), the paper presents two EEG-‐based biomarkers (F8-‐EP and ALPHA8-‐AP) obtained from an evoked potential and accumu...
This is an introductory paper for this Special Issue on Web 2.0 Social Capital. We present a general discussion of motivations for and barriers to applying an Enterprise 2.0 approach. Focus then shifts to the specific fields of knowledge sharing and e-commerce. The article continues with an examination of social capital 2.0 issues. Discussion cente...
This paper compares two alternative methodologies—the experimental–behavioral approach and the contingent approach—for measuring the value that an attribute of a good (product or service) creates for potential customers. In the experimental–behavioral methodology, potential buyers make actual purchase decisions by receiving financial incentives. In...
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Firms are adopting Web 2.0 technologies to improve collaboration, participation and communication; however there are few empirical studies testing the impact of this adoption. The purpose of this article is to analyze if there is a linkage amongst market orientation, Web 2.0 adoption and innovativeness.
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This paper aims to analyze the role played by two dimensions of entrepreneurs' private social capital in the survival, growth and innovativeness of entrepreneurial service ventures: local size and preferential attachment degree.
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Data were collected by a questionnaire, the unit of investigation being the private...
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The aim of this paper is to analyze the compatibility between entrepreneurial and social attitudes. Specifically, it seeks to analyze whether subjects with a more developed economic entrepreneurial attitude exhibit a less social attitude.
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The methodology integrates an economic experimental approach with a standa...
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The aim of this paper is to analyze the impact of an entrepreneur's social capital on their access to information, and how such access improves the performance of their entrepreneurial project.
Design/methodology/approach
A structural equations model (SEM) is estimated and validated from a database including information from 282 Argentinea...
This paper analyzes and provides empirical evidence on how three different dimensions of social capital (structural, relational, and resources) have a direct causal relation on the performance of financial service start-ups. To this end, a structural equation model is estimated and validated from a database, including information from 142 Argentine...
The aim of this paper is twofold. First of all, we participate in the open discussion on the nature of social capital and we show that the one-dimensional approach is not enough to capture the complex nature of social capital. Second, we present, implement and validate a specific three-dimensional measurement tool that can be used to analyze the ro...
Starting from the idea of quality in education defined as the level of satisfaction offered by the educational system, a level reached by meeting certain required standards due to the aggregated effort of the participants in the process of learning and of other interested stakeholders, the education of the 21st century will have to focus on removin...
The design of equilibrium protocols in sender-receiver games where communication is noisy occupies an important place in the Economic literature. This paper shows that the common way of constructing a noisy channel communication protocol in Information Theory does not necessarily lead to a Nash equilibrium. Given the decoding scheme, it may happen...
This paper shows the existence of an equilibrium pragmatic Language with a universal grammar as a coordination device under communication misunderstandings. Such a language plays a key role in achieving efficient outcomes in those Sender-Receiver games where there may exist noisy information transmission. The Language is pragmatic in the sense that...
This working paper analyzes the role played by two dimensions of entrepreneurs’ private social capital in the performance of an entrepreneurial venture: local size and degree of preferential linking. To fulfill this objective, we build a bi-dimensional measure of social capital based on network models and a methodology to estimate this measure for...
Una aproximació polièdrica al concepte microeconòmic
The aim of this paper is to explore the role of a pragmatic Language with a universal grammar as a coordination device under communication misunder-standings. Such a language plays a key role in achieving efficient outcomes in those sender-receiver games, where there may exist noisy information tranmis-sion. The Language is pragmatic in the sense t...
Este artículo propone un enfoque tridimensional en el aprendizaje de cualquier concepto en microeconomía. Las tres facetasdel aprendizaje presentadas son la experiencial- vivencial, la gráfico-geométrica y la matemático-formal. En cada una de ellasel lenguaje utilizado es diferente, y el paso entre las tres facetas conforma el camino apropiado para...
The claim of this paper is that an entrepreneur’s human capital constitutes a key determinant of the survival time of new
service industry companies created in Spain. To confirm this claim, a series of survival models has been specified and estimated
for a sample of 237 Spanish service industry companies founded by one or more entrepreneurs between...
We show the role of unmediated talk with computational complexity bounds as both an information transmission and a coordination device for the class of two-player games with incomplete information and rational parameters. We prove that any communication equilibrium payoff of such games can be reached as a Bayesian-Nash equilibrium payoff of the gam...
We show that any correlated equilibrium payoff of two-player repeated games with imperfect monitoring and without discounting can be reached as a Nash equilibrium payoff of the game extended by a universal mechanism of unmediated communication where players are computationally restricted. The communication mechanism is designed with the aid of cryp...
The main contribution of this paper is the development and application of cryptographic techniques to the design of strategic communication mechanisms. One of the main assumptions in cryptography is the limitation of the computational power available to agents. We introduce the concept of limited computational complexity, and by borrowing results f...
We show the role of unmediated plain conversation as both an information transmission and a coordination device for the class of two-player incomplete information games. Concretely, we proove that any communication equilibrium payoff of such games can be reached as a Nash equilibrium payoff of the game extended by a two phase (exante and interim) u...
The authors show the role of unemdiated plain conversation as both information transmission and a coordination device for the class of two-player incomplete information games. Concretely, they prove that any communication equilibrium payoff of such games can be reached as a Nash equilibrium payoff of the game extended by a two phase (exante and int...
We show that any correlated equilibrium payoff of two-player repeated games with imperfect monitoring and without discounting can be reached as the Nash equilibrium payoff of the game extended by a universal mechanism of unmediated communication. This result holds regardless the particular concept of equlibrium involved (upper, lower, Banach or uni...
The main result of this paper is that any correlated equlibrium pay-off of a two-player completeinformation game with rational parameters can be reached through an unmediated costlesspre-play conversation scheme. This problem was left open by Barany and Forges' analysis. Ourcommunication protocol does not rely on external mediators of any kind. It...
El trabajo es una aproximación teórica al valor del capital social en las ciencias de gestión y analiza el estado del arte en la literatura de capital social y de la creación de valor observando resultados de numerosos trabajos empíricos en el campo del capital social y de las relaciones intrafirmas e interfirmas. Observamos que la posesión de capi...
El presente trabajo ahonda en la temática del capital social y del entrepreneurship. Dado que bajo las condiciones competitivas de las economías modernas los recursos directamente controlados por los emprendedores no son suficientes para asegurar a sus pequeñas empresas la supervivencia y el crecimiento, en algunas oportunidades necesitan suplement...