Research

Publications

Intergenerational transmission of preferences and the operativeness of bequest motive, with Jaime Alonso-Carrera, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 12997, 2022.

Revisiting aggregate growth recovery after a capital destruction, with Jaime Alonso-Carrera and Carlos de Miguel, Journal of Macroeconomics 68, 103293, 2021.

Capital accumulation when consumers are tempted by others' consumption experience, with Jaime Alonso-Carrera, Oxford Economic Papers 72(3), 804-828, 2020.

Endogenous aspirations, growth and the rise of environmental concerns, with Carlos de Miguel, Energy Economics 84(S1), 104526, 2019.

Optimal fiscal policy in a model with inherited aspirations and habit formation, with Carlos de Miguel, Journal of Public Economic Theory 21(6), 1309-1331, 2019. 

Learning by doing, endogenous discounting and economic development, Journal of Mathematical Economics 73, 34-43, 2017.

Working papers

Altruism, human capital and environmental preservation in a globalized economy, with Leonor Modesto, IZA Discussion Paper 16825, 2024.

Self-control preferences and the behavior of the saving rate, with Jaime Alonso-Carrera. Revise and Resubmit.

An overlapping generations model with endogenous aspirations, ECOBAS working papers, 2018-06. 

Aspirations, environmental quality and optimal tax policy, ECOBAS working papers, 2016-21.

Work in progress

Investment-specific technological change and reconstruction dynamics, with Carlos de Miguel.

Self-control, income inequality and education dropouts, with Jaime Alonso-Carrera.

Discounting, utility and growth, with Carlos de Miguel.

Self-control preferences and the business cycle, with Leonor Modesto and Rémi Vives.

Patience, bequests and labor market outcomes, with Ismael Gálvez Iniesta and Estrella Gomez-Herrera.