Curriculum Vitae

Professional background

• July 2023 - present, Associate Professor (with tenure) at the  Department of Economics of the Universitat de Girona (UdG),  Spain.

• September 2017-July 2023, Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics of the Universitat de Girona (UdG),  Spain.

• August 2017-December 2017, Visiting Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics of McMaster University, Canada.

• September 2014- September 2017, Visiting Professor at the Department of Economics of the UdG, Spain.

• July 2013-July 2014, Faculty Member at the Department of Economics of the Universidad de Guanajuato (UGto), Mexico.

• September 2008-July 2012, Instructor and Teaching Assistant at the Department of Economics of the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (UAB), Spain.

• January 2006-December 2006, Credit Risk analyst in A.I.S. - Aplicaciones de Inteligencia Artificial, Barcelona, Spain. 

Academic performance

• 2009-2013, Ph.D. in Economics. International Doctorate in Economic Analysis (IDEA) at  UAB, Economics Faculty. Visiting the Institut de Recherches Économiques et Sociales at the Université Catholique de Louvain during Spring 2011. Supervisor: Jordi Caballé.

• 2007-2009, M.A. in Economics. International Master in Economic Analysis at UAB, Economics Faculty.

• 1999-2005, B.S. in Mathematics . Degree in Mathematics at Universitat de Barcelona, Mathematics Faculty.

Publications

• "Hours and wages: A bargaining approach", with E. Del Rey and J.I. Silva, Economics Letters 217, 110652 (2022)

• "The neoclassical growth model and the labor share decline", with Z. L. Mahone and P.  S. Pujolàs, The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics 21(2), 607-628 (2021).

• "Economic effects of remittances on migrants’ country of origin", with B. Alpaslan, A. Kayaoglu, J. Meckl, M. Vanore and T. Ziesemer. In The Economic Geography of cross-border migration, edited by Peter Nijkamp, Karima Kourtit, Bruce Newbold, and Mark Partridge, Footprints of Regional Science, Springer (2021).

• "Employment effects of on-the-job human capital acquisition", with J. I. Silva and J. Vázquez-Grenno, Labour Economics 67, 101937 (2020).

• "Wealth Constraints, Migrant Selection and Inequality in Developing Countries", Macroeconomic Dynamics 23(2), 535-567 (2019). 

• "Urbanisation, Education and the Growth Backlog of Africa",  with Ayşegül Kayaoğlu, Journal of African Economies,  26(5), 584–606 (2017).

• "Informality and Long-run growth", with Frédéric Docquier and Tobias Müller, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 119(4), 1040–1085 (2017).

Research grants, awards and honors

• Economic Analysis of Public Policies (2021 SGR 570), Generalitat de Catalunya, Spain, 2021-2024, Principal Investigator: Àngels Xabadia.

• Desigualdad de género, Instituciones y Dinámica del Mercado de Trabajo (PID2020-113452RB-I00), Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universitats, 2021-2024, Principal Investigator: José I. Silva. 

• Institutions, public policies and labor markets dynamics (ECO2017-82350-R), Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Competitividad, Spain,  2018-2021, Principal Investigator: José I. Silva. 

• Quantifying labour market inefficiencies, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Insight Grant 162545 , 2018-2021, Principal Investigator: Pau S. Pujolàs. 

• Research Group in institutions and labor market dynamics (2017 SGR 558), Generalitat de Catalunya, Spain, 2018-2021, Principal Investigator: José I. Silva. 

• Conflicte, Cohesió Social i Polítiques Publiques (2009 SGR 1142), Generalitat de Catalunya, Spain, Principal Investigator: Joan M. Esteban.

• Fellowship by the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, January 2008 – December 2011.

• Urrutia Elejalde Foundation -- MOVE award  for Excellence in Doctoral Studies, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2010.

Presentations

• 2021: Ankara Sosyal Bilimler Üniversitesi - Center for International Development.

• 2019: Universitat de Barcelona, Association of Southern-European Economic Theorists 2019.

• 2018: XLIII Simposio de la Asociación Española de Economía.

• 2017: Oxford Symposium on Population Migration and the Environment, Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory Meeting, McMaster Univesity, Ryerson University.

• 2015: Barcelona Graduate School of Economics Summer Forum, Universidad de Vigo.

• 2014: Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Colegio de México, Congreso internacional de Investigación e Innovación, Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics.

• 2013: Royal Economic Society PhD Presentation Meeting, Navarra Center for International Development, Universidad de Guanajuato, Jornadas Latinoamericanas de Teoría Económica, XXXVIII Simposio de la Asociación Española de Economía.

• 2012: II Encuentro de Especialización para la Economía y la Empresa (Fundación General Universidad de Granada-Empresa), XXXVII Simposio de la Asociación Española de Economía.

• 2011: XVIII ENTER Jamboree (Universiteit van Tilburg), IV Doctoral Meeting of Montpellier, Doctoral Workshop (Université Catholique de Louvain), IV Summer School in Public Economics: Immigration and Public Policy (Institut d'Economia de Barcelona).

Teaching experience

UdG (English, Spanish, and Catalan):

• September 2023-January 2024, instructor in Trade and Growth (undergraduate level).

• February 2023-June 2023, instructor in Macroeconomics (undergraduate level).

• September 2022-January 2023, instructor in Fundamentals of Labour Economics (masters level), and Trade and Growth (undergraduate level).

• February 2022-June 2022, instructor in Macroeconomics (undergraduate level).

• September 2021-January 2022, instructor in Fundamentals of Labour Economics (masters level), and Labour Economics (masters level).

• February 2021-June 2021, instructor in Macroeconomics (undergraduate level).

• September 2020-January 2021, instructor in Fundamentals of Labour Economics (masters level), and Trade and Growth (undergraduate level).

• February 2020-June 2020, instructor in Macroeconomics (undergraduate level), and Macroeconomic Analysis (undergraduate level).

• September 2019-January 2020, instructor in Introduction to Economics (undergraduate level).

• February 2019-June 2019, instructor in Macroeconomics (undergraduate level), and Macroeconomic Analysis (undergraduate level).

• September 2018-January 2019, instructor in Introduction to Economics (undergraduate level).

• February 2018-June 2018, instructor in Macroeconomics (undergraduate level), Macroeconomic Analysis (undergraduate level), and Dynamic Optimization (undergraduate level).

• February 2017-June 2017, instructor in Macroeconomics (undergraduate level).

• September 2016-January 2017, instructor in Introduction to Economics (undergraduate level).

• February 2016-June 2016, instructor in Macroeconomics (undergraduate level).

• September 2015-January 2016, instructor in Introduction to Economics (undergraduate level).

• February 2015-June 2015, instructor in Macroeconomics (undergraduate level).

• September 2014-January 2015, instructor in Introduction to Economics (undergraduate level) .

UGto (Spanish):

• January 2014-June 2014, instructor in (masters level) Open Macroeconomics and (undergraduate level)  in Quantitative Economics.

• July 2013-December 2013, instructor in (masters level) Development Macroeconomics and (undergraduate level)  in Development Economics.

UAB (Spanish and Catalan):

• February 2012-July2012, instructor (undergraduate level)  in Microeconomics and Game Theory.

• September 2011-January 2012, teaching assistant in Mathematics I (Prof. Xavier Martínez-Giralt),

• September 2010-December 2011, teaching assistant in Macroeconomics I (Prof. Stefano Gnocchi) and Statistics I (Prof. Sabine Flamand) .

• February 2010-July 2010, teaching assistant in Macroeconomics II (Prof. Marta Arespa), Macroeconomics II (Prof. Steffano Trento).

• February 2009-July 2009, teaching assistant in Statistics II (Prof. Miguel Angel Alcobendas).

• September 2008-January 2009, teaching assistant in Statistics I (Prof. Miguel Angel Alcobendas).

Barcelona Graduate School of Economics  (English)

• September 2011, instructor (master level)  in Mathematics review (Macroeconomic Policy and Financial Markets).

Universidad Mesoamericana de Quetzaltenango, Guatemala (Spanish)

• January 2007-July 2007, instructor  (undergraduate level) in Mathematics I (Engineering), Mathematics II (Engineering), Physics I (Engineering), Mathematics I (Business and Administration), Computer Architecture (Business and Administration).

Languages

• Spanish (Native),  Catalan (Native),  English (Fluent).

Computer skills

• Matlab, Stata, SPSS, C language, Latex code, and Office.