Miriam Hortas-Rico

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I am Associate Professor at the Department of Economics and Public Finance, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain), and Director of the Master in Economic Development and Public Policy. I am also an associate researcher of RIFDE (Spanish Network on Regional Funding and Decentralization), a member of the Board of Directors of DERNET (Political and Fiscal Decentralization Network), and the Director of the UAM Research Group Public Economics at the regional and local level. I recently joined the Editorial Board of Growth and Change - A Journal of Urban and Regional Policy. 

I completed my PhD in Economics at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid in February 2013, under the supervision of Professor Albert Solé-Ollé (Universitat de Barcelona). I hold a MSc in Economics from the University College London (UK) and a Bachelor's degree in Economics from the Universitat de Barcelona. I have been a visiting scholar at the University of California-Santa Barbara and at the University of California-Irvine (USA).

My main research interests are in Fiscal Federalism, Urban Economics, and Political Economy.