PERSONAL DATA

Address: UCAM Universidad Católica de Murcia, Faculty of Economics and Business, Campus de los Jerónimos, Guadalupe 30107 (Murcia) - España

Email: nvpallares at ucam dot edu

EDUCATION

2021

PhD in Economics, University of Alicante, Spain

Advisor: Lola Collado (UA)

Committee: Matteo Ciccarelli (ECB), Lídia Farré (UB) and Pedro Albarrán (UA)

2015

Master in Quantitative Economics, University of Alicante, Spain

2013

B.A. in Economics, University of Alicante, Spain

WORK EXPERIENCE

Current

Assistant Professor & Academic Coordinator (MMSE), Department of Business Administration at Universidad Católica de Murcia, Spain

Roles:

Teaching, research and student supervision

Coordination of the Master’s program in Sport Management (MMSE), including program planning, faculty management, responsibility for FMT and internship processes, and quality evaluation

Undergraduate courses:

Microeconomics I and II, World & Spanish Economy, Statistics, Introduction to economics, Macroeconomics II

Graduate courses:

Introduction to Research

Feb. 2018 - Aug. 2018

Teaching Assistant, Department of Economics at University of Alicante, Spain

Undergraduate courses:

Introduction to Statistics

Graduate courses:

Econometrics II 

Nov. 2017 - Jan. 2018

Research Analyst, Directorate General Research at European Central Bank, Frankfurt am Main

Roles:

HFCS-based economic modelling and quantitative analysis to support policy research; interpretation and presentation of analytical results

Aug. 2017 - Oct. 2017

Teaching Assistant, Department of Economics at University of Alicante, Spain

Aug. 2016 - Jul. 2017

Research Assistant, Directorate General Research at European Central Bank, Frankfurt am Main

Roles:

Microsimulation modelling and HFCS data analysis for policy evaluation; data preparation, estimation and reporting; dissemination of analytical results

Sept. 2014 - Jul. 2016

Teaching Assistant, Department of Economics at Universit of Alicante, Spain

Undergraduate courses:

Introduction to Statistics, Introduction to Microeconomics

Graduate courses:

Econometrics I

Sept. 2013 - Aug. 2014

Research Assistant, Department of Economics at University of Alicante, Spain

Roles:

Statistical and econometric analysis of DHS and SHARE data

INTERNATIONAL ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

Apr. 2025

Erasmus+ Teaching Staff Mobility, University of Sassari (Italy)

Lectures on Causal Inference Methods: Regression Discontinuity and Difference-in-Differences

Apr. 2024

Erasmus+ Teaching Staff Mobility, University of Brescia (Italy)

Lectures on Empirical Economics

Sept. 2022

Erasmus+ Teaching Staff Mobility, University of Bologna (Italy)

Lectures on Applied Econometrics

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

Jun. 2025 - Second International Conference on Teaching Innovations in Economics (ASEPELT), Alcalá de Henares

Jun. 2024 - First International Conference on Teaching Innovations in Economics (ASEPELT), Elche

Dec. 2021 - 46th Simposio de la Asociación Española de Economía (SAEE), Barcelona

Dec. 2016 - 41st Simposio de la Asociación Española de Economía (SAEE), Bilbao

LANGUAGES & COMPUTER SKILLS

English (C1), Spanish (Native), Valencian (B1), Swedish (B1)

Advanced Software: Stata, R, LATEX, Microsoft Office (PowerPoint, Excel, Word)

Intermediate Software: Matlab, Gauss, Mathematica, PHP, MySQL, HTML