MASTER

• Topics in International Economic History

  • Master in Social Sciences, University Carlos III Madrid

  • Course description here

  • Most recent (2024/25) syllabus here

• Financial Systems in Developing Countries

  • Master in Economic Development and Growth (MEDEG), University Carlos III Madrid

  • Course description here

  • Most recent (2024/25) syllabus here

• Supervised theses (TFM)

  • Master in Social Sciences

    • 2021: “Was Spanish Inflation Always a Monetary Phenomenon? Evidence from Wavelet and SVAR Analysis 1868-1998”; “The causes of Spanish emigration through institutional performance 1880-1936”

  • Master in Economic Development and Growth (MEDEG)

    • 2025: "The Green Gold Rush: How Green Financial Aid Fuels Renewable Energy Projects in Africa"; "How Do Sovereign Economic Narratives Influence Economic Development?"

    • 2022: "Tontines in Senegal: Opportunity or Last Resort for Women?"; "Does Corruption Enhance Cryptocurrency Adoption? Evidence from a Multi-Country Sample"

    • 2021: “International Remittances and Household Expenditure Patterns in Mexico: A Propensity Score Matching Analysis”; “The Environmental Effect of Green Finance Policy: A Case Study based on the Pilot Zones in China”; “The Impact of Accelerator Programs in Emerging Countries”

    • 2020: “The impact of housing purchase restriction policy on real estate market in China”; “Foreign Direct Investment and pollution havens in low-income African countries”

    • 2019: “The effect of remittances in the financial development of Sub-Saharan Africa”; “Exchange market pressure in Eastern European countries”; “Microcredit and women’s empowerment in rural Morocco: evidence from a 2009 national survey”; “Access to finance and human capital accumulation – Evidence from Tanzania”; “Socioeconomic determinants of Islamic finance penetration”; “The effect of financial access on households’ welfare in presence of economic shocks. Evidence from Mexican households”; “Tourism-related FDI Inflows, Economic Growth and Development in the Dominican Republic: A Country-case Causality Study”

    • 2018: “FDI, Financial Development and Natural Resource Abundance in Sub-Saharan Africa”; “The relationship between violence and inequality in Mexico, 1996-2006”

    • 2017: “Monetary integration and business cycles synchronization in ECOWAS countries”; “Disaster resilience and mobile money in Kenya”; “Fiscal policy in a dollarized economy: the case of Ecuador”; “For whom the capital flows: the cost of Civil War and Institutions in Angola”

    • 2016: “The impact of mobile money in household development in Tanzania”; “Remittances and poverty alleviation in Latin America”

    • 2015: “The impact of official dollarization on financial depth: the case of Ecuador”; “Exchange rate and growth: the Argentinian case”; “Private investment and financial sector policies”; “Pain and gain of financial development in Chile”; “Inflationary effects of fiscal deficit financing in Ethiopia”

    • 2014: “Impact of microcredits on financial development and poverty alleviation: theory and evidence from India”; “The effect of local financial development on enterprise growth in India”; “Foreign direct investment, financial development and economic growth: the case of Ecuador”

    • 2012: “The macroeconomic impact of dollarization in El Salvador”; “Finance for growth: leasing in Serbia”.

UNDERGRADUATE

• Taught courses:

  • History of the World Economy (BA International Studies, Double BA International Studies and Economics, 2nd year)

  • Process of European Economic Integration since 1945 (BA Economics, 3rd and 4th year)

  • Social and Economic History of Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries (BA Sociology, 3rd year)

  • Economic History (BA Economics; BA Business Administration; BA Humanities, 1st - 2nd year)

  • Research Design in Social Sciences (Double BA International Studies and Political Sciences; International Studies and Economics, 2nd year)

CHAIRS

• Jean Monnet Chair in History of European Economic Integration, awarded by the European Commission (Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency), Program Erasmus+

  • Project: “European Monetary and Financial Integration: Past and Present”. 

  • Code: 176379-LLP-1-2010-1-ES-AJM-CH. 

  • Period: 01/09/2010 – 31/08/2013. 

  • Funding: € 45.000,00 EUR. 

  • Activities: 

    • (1) undergrad course "Process of European Economic Integration" (BA Economics, 3rd and 4th year, in English and Spanish); 

    • (2) supervision of Bachelos and Master thesis on EU topics; 

    • (3) training course “30 Years of Macroeconomic Convergence in Europe: Lessons for Mercosur” (October 2010), a week-long module for 30 executives from Latin American economic ministries and central banks members of the GMM-Grupo de Monitoreo Macroeconómico of MERCOSUR. The programme consisted of seminars given by experts from UC3M, the Bank of Spain and BBVA Research.