Professor of Economics at Universidad de Valencia. Postdoctoral Fellowship from 1992 to 1993, University of Montreal. Ph.D. in Economics in 1992, Universidad de Valencia. M.A. in Economics in 1989, Universidad de Valencia. B.A. in Economics in 1985, Universidad de Valencia. Research Associate at the Valencian Federation of Saving Banks from 1989 to 1993. Visiting Researcher, University of Montreal, 1995. Visiting Researcher, Fundación de Estudios de Economía Aplicada (FEDEA), 1996.
Director of the Fundación ICO-Cabildo de Tenerife Chair in International Economics and Finance, Universidad de La Laguna, from 2010 to 2011. Director of the Cabildo de Tenerife-CajaCanarias Chair in International Economics and Finance, Universidad de La Laguna, 2012, and Deputy Director of the Fundación CajaCanarias Chair in International Economics and Finance, Universidad de La Laguna, 2014-2015.
Coordinator of Scholarship Program for Teacher Training University (Grants FPU, Economics Area) from the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, Government of Spain, from 2012 to 2015. External assessor of the Insight Grants Program from Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), Government of Canada in 2013. Member of the Selection Committee, High Corps of Spanish State Economists and Trade Experts, Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation, 2023.
His research interests are in the areas of International Finance, Applied Macroeconometrics, Cliometrics, and Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance.
He has published extensively in academic journals (Journal of Macroeconomics, Economic Letters, Journal of Policy Modeling, Economic Modelling, Energy Economics, Cliometrica, North American Journal of Economics and Finance, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, among others).
His current research focuses on stability of the New Keynesian hybrid Phillips curve, on co-explosivity between nominal house price index and housing credit-to-GDP, on optimal public deficit and tax-smoothing, on credit and economic growth, and on prices and money in the Early Modern Globalization period.
He is a research affiliate of the INTECO UV-UJI joint research unit and Prometeo program grants for research groups of excellence of Generalitat Valenciana.