Guillermo Peña

Dr. Guillermo Peña Blasco

Assistant Professor at the University of Zaragoza, Saragossa, Spain

Department of Economic Analysis

Researcher of the Institute on Employment, Digital Society and Sustainability (IEDIS)

Email: gpena@unizar.es, gpenablasco@unizar.es, gpenablasco@gmail.com 

Articles

28. Peña, G. (2024): "Alternativas al método de la ratio móvil", Papeles de Trabajo del Instituto de Estudios Fiscales, 1/2024: 1-18 (ISSN 1578-0252), https://www.ief.es/docs/destacados/publicaciones/papeles_trabajo/2024_01.pdf.

27. Peña,G.,  Puente-Ajovín, M., & Sanz-Gracia, F. (2023): "Gibrat’s Law for CO2 emissions revisited", Applied Economics Letters (forthcoming), https://doi.org/10.1080/13504851.2023.2289893 .

26. Peña,G. (2023): "Interest Rates affect Public Expenditure Growth", Quantitative Finance and Economics, 7(4): 622–645. DOI: 10.3934/QFE.2023030.  JCI Q1&D1(2022)(WoS).

25. Delgado, J., Peña, G., & Peña, J. M. (2023): "Green Matrices, Minors and Hadamard Products", Axioms, 12(8): 774. JCR Q2(2022), CiteScore Q1(2022). Selected by the journal as "our journal title story this quarter. You can see it at the top of our page. https://www.mdpi.com/journal/axioms", with more than 300 views in less than 1 month after the publication.

24. Delgado, J., Peña, G. & Peña, J.M. (2023): "Accurate and fast computations with Green matrices", Applied Mathematics Letters,  Volume 145, 108778, JCR Q1&D1(2022), SJR Q1(2023).

23. Peña G. (2023): "Raising Interest Rates for Improving Income", Journal of Central Banking, Theory and Practice, 12(3):199 - 217, CiteScore Q1(2022), SJR Q2(2023). 

22. Jarauta, R, & Peña, G. (2023): "Distribución en el tamaño poblacional de las entidades singulares de La Rioja entre 2000 y 2022" Revista de Economía Riojana 5: 95-112.

21. Peña,G.,  Puente-Ajovín, M., Ramos, A. & Sanz-Gracia, F. (2022): "Log-growth rates of CO2:An empirical analysis",  Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 588, 126550., doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physa.2021.126550. JCRQ2(2022), SJRQ1, CiteScoreQ1&D1, JCIQ1(WoS)

20. López-Laborda, J. and Peña, G. (2022): “Financial VAT may improve trade openness”, Applied Economics, 54(19): 2148-2160, JCRQ2(2022), SJRQ2, CiteScoreQ2 JCIQ2(WoS), ABDC Rating A.

19. Peña, G.& Sanz-Gracia, F. (2021): “Zipf’s exponent and Zipf’s law in the BRICS: A rolling sample regressions approach” Economics Bulletin, 41(4), 2543-2549, SJRQ3, JCI(WoS).

18. Peña, G., Bartolomé, M. L., y Blasco, M. J. (2021): “E-mail consultation assessment during COVID-19 pandemic,” Anales De Pediatria, 95(5):377. JCRQ3, SJRQ3, JCIQ3(WoS).

17. Peña, G. (2021): "The coronavirus: Black swan and endowment shock", Revista Galega de Economía, 30(1):1-14. SJRQ3, Most read article of the journal between 2022/02/27 and 2022/08/27 (currently in 2nd position).

16. Gil, N., Peña, G., Bartolomé, ML, B. L., Atance, E., Buil, S., Blasco, M. J. (2021): “Economic valuation of e-mail consulting and its impact on COVID-19. A five-year expierence” Ped. Aten. Prim., 23:43-51, SJR.

15. Peña, G. (2021). “Role of Quoted Spreads in Financial Services”, Economics and Business Letters, 10(3): 208-216, SJRQ3, JCI(WoS).

14. Peña, G. (2021). “How do income inequality and fiscal consolidation impact on banking crises? A post-Keynesian view,” Review of Economic Analysis, 13(1), 89-114. SJR, JCI(WoS), ABDC Rating B.

13. Peña, G. (2020). “Monetary Policy after the Great Moderation”, Journal of Central Banking Theory and Practice, 9(3), 5-26. SNIPQ2, CiteScoreQ2(2020), Q1(2021,22) JCIQ2(WoS)

12. Peña, G. (2020): “A new trading algorithm with financial applications”, Quantitative Finance and Economics, 4(4): 596-607. JCIQ2 (2020), Q1(2021),D1(2022)(WoS)

11. Peña, G. (2020): “VAT experience as an influence on banking crises”, National Accounting Review, 2(1): 53-65, JCIQ3(2022)(WoS) (currently the 24th most-read article of the journal).

10. Peña, G. (2019): “Efficient treatment of banking services under VAT”, Economics and Business Letters, 8(2): 115-121, SJRQ3, JCIQ3(2022)(WoS).

9. Peña, G. (2019): “Efectos del mercado laboral sobre el sector financiero en la OCDE” Acc e Inv.Soc, 39:.255-76,  JCI(WoS), Latindex, Dialnet Q2.

8. López-Laborda, J. & Peña, G. (2018): “A new method for applying VAT to financial services”, Nat. Tax J., 71(1):155-182.SJRQ1.JCRQ3,JCIQ3, ABDC Rating A."In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric",2023/11/12, https://www.altmetric.com/details/76076818/policy-documents 

7. Peña, G. (2017): Money, lending and banking crisis, Economic Papers: A journal of applied economics and policy, 36(4): 444-458 SJRQ2(2018), JCIQ3, ABDC Rating B

6. López-Laborda, Julio & Guillermo Peña (2017): “International Practices of Financial VAT” International VAT Monitor, 28(6): 457-465. Indexado en: IBSS, Australian Business Dean Council, Rating B.

5. López-Laborda, J. & Peña, G. (2017): “Does financial VAT affect the size of the financial sector?” Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal, 11(7): 1-28. http://dx.doi.org/10.5018/economics-ejournal.ja.2017-7 (ISSN: 1864-6042). JCR, JCI(WoS), SJRQ2.

4. Larena, F. I., Vara, C. M., Peña, B. G., Atance, M.        E., Gay, G. B., & Pérez-Aramendía, M. J. (2017): “Vaccine cold chain interruption in a primary care center and economic evaluation” Enfermeria clinica, 27(1): 44. SCOPUS: SJRQ3, JCI(WoS). 

3. Peña, G., & Blasco, M. J. (2017): “A cost-benefit analysis of varicella vaccination in Aragón”, Archivos argentinos de pediatria, 115(5): 432-438. JCR, SJRQ3.

2. Delgado, J., Pena, G., & Pena, J. M. (2016): “Accurate and fast computations with positive extended Schoenmakers–Coffey matrices”, Numerical Linear Algebra with Applications, 23(6): 1023-1031. JCRQ1,JCRD1(2020-22).

1. López-Laborda, J., & Peña, G. (2016): “Is Financial VAT Neutral to Financial Sector Size?” Economics Discussion Papers, No 2016-31: 1-27, Kiel Institute for the World Economy. (ISSN 1867-8009).

Chapters

8. Peña, G. (2024): "Exogenous Impact of the Spanish Banking Reform of 2012 on Rural Areas", 46th EBES Conference - Program and Abstract Book, EBES, Istanbul (Turkey), p.78. ISBN: 978-605-71739-6-6.

7. Peña, G. (2022): “An Algorithmic Trading Strategy to Balance Profitability and Risk”, Ed.: Davis, F.,  Schwartz,  T., Walker, T. in Big Data in Finance : Opportunities and Challenges of Financial Digitalization, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 35-53. ISBN:9783031122392. SPIQ2(2022, Economics), SPIQ1(2022, General)

6. Peña, (2022): "Optimal VAT on Financial Services: A theoretical model of financial VAT," Ed.: Akkaya, Ş. and Ergüder, B. in Handbook of Research on Challenges in Public Economics in the Era of Globalization. IGI Global, pp. 279-318. ISBN:9781799890836. SPIQ2(2022, Economics). 

5. Peña, G. (2022): “Economic Policies for the COVID-19 pandemic: Lessons from the Great Recession”, in Said, A. H. et al. (Ed.):  Decision Sciences for COVID -19: Learning Through Case Studies, Springer, pp. 425-455. ISBN: 978-3-030-87018-8. SPIQ1(2022, 1st in Economics).

4. Peña, G. (2020): “Implicaciones del desempleo en la participación del sector financiero sobre el valor añadido”, Fundación de las cajas de ahorros: Documento de trabajo (ISBN: 84-89116-07-5). 

3. Peña, G. (2017): “Regulation of the Banking Sector: A Panacea?”, In QUAESTI-Virtual Multidisciplinary Conference 5(1):43-46(ISBN: 9788055414072). 

2. López-Laborda, J.  & Peña, G. (2014): “Influencia del IVA financiero sobre el grado de apertura comercial” XL Reunión de Estudios Regionales. International Conference on Regional Science. (ISBN: 978-84-697-1610-6).

1. Peña, G. (2014): “Análisis del crédito interno en Europa e influencia del banco central en su recuperación”  XL Reunión de Estudios Regionales. International Conference on Regional Science. (ISBN: 978-84-697-1610-6).

Data & Codes

5. Peña Blasco, Guillermo, 2023, "Replication Data for: Interest Rates affect Public Expenditure Growth", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/I4XLBM, Harvard Dataverse, V1

4. Peña Blasco, Guillermo, 2022, "Data from Optimal VAT on Financial Services: A theoretical model of financial VAT", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/I2TDUL, Harvard Dataverse, V1

3. Peña Blasco, Guillermo, 2022, "The Effects of the Finance-Inequality Nexus on Economic and Banking Activity", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/MZYGB6, Harvard Dataverse, V1

2. Peña Blasco, Guillermo; López Laborda, Julio, 2022, "Financial VAT may improve trade openness", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/WEW6EU, Harvard Dataverse, V2

1. López-Laborda, Julio; Peña, Guillermo, 2017, "Does financial VAT affect the size of the financial sector?", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/YWQMMZ, Harvard Dataverse, V1

Guillermo Peña : gpena@unizar.es , PhD in Economics.

Areas of interest (not limited to): Urban Economics, Environmental Economics, Economics of Taxation, Value Added Taxation (VAT), Financial VAT, Financial Services, Asset Pricing, Algorithmic Trading, Monetary Policy, Banking Crises, Central Banking, Value Added, Public Economics, Public Spending, Regional Science, Population Economics, Migrations, Health Economics, Cost-Benefit Analysis, Unemployment, Labor Economics, Trade, Applied Econometrics, Quantitative methods, Gravity Models.


Software Used: Stata15, 17, R, SQL, SAS, Geoda, QGis, Geogebra, Maxima, Latex.

Other programs: Microsoft Excel, Power Point, Power BI, Frontpage, Access, Azure, Wordpad.


Cambridge Journal of Economics, Complexity, Journal of Economic Studies, Applied Economics Letters, Journal of Infrastructure, Policy and Development,  Economics Bulletin, Revista de Economía y Finanzas, Journal of International Business Research, Journal of Applied Mathematics, Journal of Oral Research.

Paid reviewer of a Routledge's book.


Recognised Research Experience by the Doctorate Commission of the University of Zaragoza.

Recognised Research Sexennium by the Spanish CNEAI (2023) and by the Aragonese ACPUA (2023).


Project entitled “Municipios y servicios financieros: shocks, ratios y efectos,” funded by the Fundación Ibercaja / Universidad de Zaragoza (JIUZ2022-CSJ-19): https://sites.google.com/unizar.es/jiuz2022-csj-19/inicio 


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Scopus Author ID: 57194051932

ORCID 0000-0002-8816-5816

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