Short CV
Education
2020: PhD in Economics, Universidad de Oviedo, Spain.
Thesis tittle: Essays on the econometric modelling of consumer preferences for tourism
Completion date: October 2020
Mark: CUM LAUDE
Examiners: William Greene, María Loureiro, Jaume Rosselló, Luís Orea and Juan Prieto
2016: Master in Economics, University of Oviedo, University of Cantabria and University of the Basque Country, Spain
2015: Bachelor of Economics, University of Oviedo, Spain
Professional Positions
2024- Tenured Assistant Professor (Personal Permanente Laboral), Department of Economics, University of Oviedo, Spain.
2021-2024 Assistant Professor (Ayudante Doctor), Department of Economics, University of Oviedo, Spain.
2021 Adjunct Professor, Department of Applied Economics, University of Oviedo, Spain
2017-2020 PhD fellow, Department of Economics, University of Oviedo, Spain.
2015: Scholar at Banking Analytics Department in Liberbank
2014-2015: Scholar at Department of Economics, University of Oviedo, Spain.
Research Interests / Research Profile
Household Economics, Tourism Economics, Applied Econometrics, Discrete Choice Modelling
Selected Courses
2025: CEMFI Summer School. Difference-in-differences, Madrid, Spain.
2023: Course “Heterogeneous difference-in-differences in Stata”. Online
2019: Course “Introduction to Apollo”. University of the Basque Country.
2018: Course “Discrete Choice Modelling”. University of the Basque Country.
2018: Introduction to Latex. University of Oviedo, Spain.
2017: CEMFI Summer School. Panel Data Analysis, Madrid, Spain.
2017: Data Analysis with R. University of Oviedo, Spain.
Visiting Stays
February 2025: University of the Balearic Islands (4 weeks)
February 2024: University of the Basque Country (1 week)
September 2022: University of Bologna (Rimini Campus) (2 weeks)
October 2019: University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (1 week)
March-April 2019: University of Verona, Department of Economics.
June-July 2018: University of Verona, Department of Economics
Selected seminars
2023: University of Corsica. 11th May 2023. Title of the seminar: “Noisy signals: how does the polarization of hotel ratings vary with length of stay?”
2023: University of the Balearic Islands. 17th February 2023. Title of the seminar: “Noisy signals: how does the polarization of hotel ratings vary with length of stay?”
2022: University of La República. 20th October 2022. Title of the seminar: “The economics of second-home tourism: Are there expenditure reallocation effects from accommodation savings?”
2022: University of Bologna, Centre for Advanced Studies in Tourism. 9th September 2022. Title of the seminar: “The effect of high-speed connectivity and accessibility on tourism seasonality”.
2021: University of Reading. Reading Online Sports Economic Seminars (ROSES). 21st May 2021. Title of the seminar: “Managerial decision making and firm performance: Field evidence from professional elite soccer”.
2021: University of Valencia. Department of Applied Economics II. 14th May 2021. Title of the seminar: “Intra-household bargaining for a joint vacation”.
2019: University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. Department of Applied Economics Analysis. 1st October 2019. Title of the seminar: “The role of climate and distance in nature- based tourists’ destination choice”.
2018: University of Verona. Department of Economics. 27th June 2018. Title of the seminar: “A Collective Discrete Choice Model for where to go on holidays”.
Languages
English: Certificate in Advanced. Council of Europe, level C1. Official Language School, level C2.
Awards and Scholarships
2023: PhD extraordinary End of Studies Prize, University of Oviedo, Spain
2017: PhD Scholarship (FPU), Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport, Spain
2015: Master Scholarship (Liberbank)
2015: Extraordinary End of Studies Prize in Bachelor of Economics, University of Oviedo, Spain
Nada es Gratis posts
• Do consumers value the legal status of Airbnb? (Nada es Gratis, 25th April 2023, in Spanish)
• What do we know about the relationship between tourism and economic growth? (Nada es Gratis, 10th April 2023, in Spanish)
• How does regulation affect the supply of vacation rentals? (Nada es Gratis, 19th September 2022, in Spanish)
• Graduated but overeducated: are there gender differences in the drivers of overeducation? (Nada es Gratis, 1st September 2022, in Spanish)
• The effects of the pandemic on tourism in Spain: what has changed? (Nada es Gratis, 14th February 2022)
• Professional versus non-professional Airbnb hosts: do they set prices equally? (Nada es Gratis, 20th September 2021)
• Habit formation in tourism travelling: an income issue? (Nada es Gratis, 1st December 2020)
Releases about research
• Winning the lottery induces us to travel more (The Conversation, 12th February 2024)
• The pandemic reduced tourists’ length of stay in Asturias, but it did not change average expenditure per person (University of Oviedo, 8th April 2022)
• The singular case of tourism Asturias during the pandemic: same expenditure, shorter stays (La Voz de Asturias, 17th February 2022)
• Each tourist spends €561 on average and stays 5 nights during the high season (El Comercio, 11th January 2021, in Spanish)
• The Pross and cons of olive oil promotions (Olimerca, 7th October 2020)
• The effect of store flyers on olive oil sales. Olimerca journal, 4th quarter 2020 volume, pp. 32-33