﻿{"id":1808,"date":"2019-12-19T09:59:50","date_gmt":"2019-12-19T08:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theeconomics.uma.es\/antonio-j-avila-cano\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T12:43:26","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T10:43:26","slug":"antonio-j-avila-cano__en","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theeconomics.uma.es\/en\/antonio-j-avila-cano__en\/","title":{"rendered":"Antonio J. \u00c1vila Cano"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>PhD in Economics, Universidad de M\u00e1laga<br>Associate Professor <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">L\u00edneas de investigaci\u00f3n:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Industrial Economics, Sports Economics<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Energy, Econophysics, Political Science<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Publicaciones seleccionadas:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li> Measuring competitive balance in sports leagues that award bonus points, with an application to rugby union (with D. Owen &amp; F. Triguero-Ruiz), <em>European Journal of Operational Research<\/em>, 2023, 309 (2), 939-952.<\/li><li> On competitive balance in the group stage of the UEFA Champions League (with F. Triguero-Ruiz), <em>Scottish Journal of Political Economy<\/em>, 2023, 70, 231\u2013 248.<\/li><li>On the control of competitive balance in the major European football leagues (with F. Triguero-Ruiz), <em>Managerial and Decision Economics<\/em>, 2023, 44(2), 1254-1263.<\/li><li>Identifying the Maximum Concentration of Results in Bilateral Sports Competitions (with A. Ruiz-Sepulveda &amp; F. Triguero Ruiz). <em>Mathematics<\/em>, 2021, 9, 1293. Special Issue Application of Mathematics in Applied Economics.<\/li><li>Firm growth in the 21st century: Does the Andalusian economy comply with Gibrat\u2019s Law? (with J.M. Dom\u00ednguez-Jurado &amp; F. Triguero-Ruiz), <em>Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications<\/em>, 2021, 577, Econophysics, 126064, 1-15.<\/li><li>The distance to competitive balance: a cardinal measure (with F. Triguero-Ruiz), <em>Applied Economics<\/em>, 2019, 51 (7), 698-710.<\/em><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Docencia:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uma.es\/centers\/subject\/5006\/50511\">Microeconom\u00eda.<\/a>\u00a0Grado en Econom\u00eda, Facultad Ciencias Econ\u00f3micas y Empresariales (FCEE)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uma.es\/centers\/subject\/facultad-de-ciencias-economicas-y-empresariales\/5006\/50511\/\">Microeconom\u00eda.<\/a>\u00a0Grado en Administraci\u00f3n y Direcci\u00f3n de Empresas (FCEE)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PhD in Economics, Universidad de M\u00e1lagaAssociate Professor L\u00edneas de investigaci\u00f3n: Publicaciones seleccionadas: Measuring competitive balance in sports leagues that award bonus points, with an application to rugby union (with D.\u2026 <a href=https:\/\/theeconomics.uma.es\/en\/antonio-j-avila-cano__en\/>leer 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