Curriculum Vitae

CURRENT POSITION                                                                                                                                          

2022- Present - Assistant Professor in University of Murcia (Spain)


PREVIOUS  POSITION                                                                                                                     

2016 - 2022- Associate Professor in Catholic University of Murcia (Spain)

2015 - 2016 - Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Statistics of the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (Spain)


OTHER AFFILIATIONS                                                                                                                    

Member of the Lab of Macroeconomic Analysis and Forecasting of the Instituto Flores de Lemus.  2015 - present


EDUCATION                                                                                                                            

   - 2015      Ph.D.   Economics  University of Alicante Advisors: Maximo Camacho Alonso and Gabriel Perez Quiros.

   - 2011      M.A.   Quantitative EconomicsUniversity of Alicante 

   - 2009     B.A.    Economics,  University of Murcia 

   - 2009     Teaching Certificate (CAP), University of Murcia 

   - 2007     Diploma in Business Studies, University of Murcia  


FIELDS OF RESEARCH                                                                                          

     Macroeconomics, Fiscal and Monetary Policy, Business Cycles, Structural Change, Forecasting and Factor Models.


PUBLICATIONS                                                                                                          

 - Factor models for large and incomplete data sets with unknown group structure, with Maximo Camacho (International Journal of Forecasting, 2023) 

- Regional aggregate indicators under subnational heterogeneity: Evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain, with Nina Pallares and Vita Zhukova (Economic Research-Ekonomska Istraživanja, 2023)       

       - Connected Audiences in Digital Media Markets: The Dynamics of University Online Video Impact, with Ángel Meseguer-Martínez, Alejandro Ros-Gálvez and Alfonso Rosa-Garcia (European Research on Management and Business Economics, 2022).

- The dynamics of the university impact on YouTube: a comparative analysis, with  Ángel Meseguer-Martínez and Alejandro Ros-Gálvez (Social  Network Analysis and Mining, 2021). 

- The two-speed Europe in business cycle synchronization, with Maximo Camacho and Angela Caro (Empirical Economics, 2020). 

- The evolution of monetary policy effectiveness under macroeconomic instability (Economic Modelling, 2019).

- Forecast Accuracy of Small and Large Scale Dynamic Factor Models in Developing Economies (Review of Development Economics, 2018).

- Monetary policy evaluation. A counterfactual analysis based on dynamic factor models (Applied Economics Letters, 2017).

   

ACADEMIC VISITS                                                                                                             

    - Department of Economics, Mathematics and Statistics  Birkbeck University of London, England (2014)      


SEMINARS AND CONFERENCES                                                                                 

    - Econometrics Seminar Series. University of Alicante, Spain (06/2013)

    - PhD Jamboree; Department of Economics, Mathematics and Statistics. Birkbeck University of London, UK (11/2014)

    - Área de Planificación Estratégica y Estudios de CaixaBank. Barcelona, Spain (01/2015)

    - Winter Seminars; Departament d´Economia Aplicada. Universitat de les Illes Balears. Majorca, Spain (01/2015)

    - Bureau for Applied Research of the Narodowy Bank Polski (National Bank of Poland). Varsovia, Polonia (05/2015)

    - XIX Applied Economics Meetings, Seville (06/2016)

                                         

AWARDS AND GRANTS                                                                                                   

    - FPU scholarship, Ministry of Education (Spain, 2011-2015)

    - Premio Extraordinario de Doctorado (University of Alicante)

COMPUTER SKILLS                                                                                                

    - Matlab, Gauss, R, Stata and  E-Views

LANGUAGES                                                                                                           

    - English (fluent)

    - Spanish (native)

REFERENCES                                                                                                          

      - Gabriel Perez Quiros

             gabriel.perez@bde.es

            Banco de España        

            Calle Alcalá 48, 28014 Madrid, España

     - Maximo Camacho Alonso

            mcamacho@um.es

            Universidad de Murcia

            Departamento de métodos cuantitativos, 30100, Murcia, Spain

     - Juan Mora            

            juan@ua.es 

            Universidad de Alicante 

            Departamento de Fundamentos de Análisis Económico 03080 Alicante, Spain