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EDUCATION
• PhD in Economics, 2006. University
of the Basque Country. Bilbao,
Spain.
Research fields: International Economics and Financial Economics. Thesis
Advisors: Javier Gardeazabal and Miguel Ángel Martínez.
• Master in Economics, 2000.
University of the Basque Country. Bilbao,
Spain.
Majors: Macroeconomics and Macroeconometrics.
• Bachelor degree in Economics,
1995. Central University of Venezuela. Caracas, Venezuela.
HONORS, AWARDS AND
SCHOLARSHIPS
• Young Economist Award at the
conference of the European Association for Research in Industrial Economics
(EARIE) 2004.
• Awarded with the financial support
of the Venezuelan Fundation “Gran Mariscal de Ayacucho”.
1997-2002.
• PhD Scholarship by the University of Basque Country.
• Fourth place among 74 students at
completing the bachelor degree.
• Selected as one of the 100 best
Venezuelan students of the bachelor in economics in 1994.
• Bachelor Scholarship by the Central University
of Venezuela.
1990-1993.
CONFERENCES
“XXXIV Simposio de la Asociación Española
de Economía (SAEe)”. Valencia-Spain. December 2009.
“Conference
on Meditarranean Studies”. ATINER.
Athens-Greece. April 2009.
“Jornadas de Docencia en
Economía”. Universidad de Granada. Granada-Spain. April 2009.
“XXXIII Simposio de Análisis
Económico”. Zaragoza-Spain. December 2008.
“Jornadas sobre la Nueva Economía:
Tecnologías de la
Información y Comunicación”. Malaga-Spain. Octuber
2008.
“XXXII Simposio de Análisis
Económico”. Granada-Spain. December 2007.
“XVI
International Tor Vergata Conference on Banking and Finance”.
Rome-Italy. December 2007.
“International
Mobility: Causes and Consequences”. Warsaw School
of Economics. Warsaw-Poland. Octuber 2007.
“V
Workshop on Macroeconomics: Exchange Rate, Trade and Growth ”. Centro
de Estudios Andaluces. Sevilla-Spain. Octuber 2006.
“Job
Market Seminar of the Deparment of Economic Theory”. University of Granada. Granada-Spain. June 2006.
“Seminar
of the Business Department”. University of Albacete.
Albacete- Spain. January 2006.
“XXX
Simposium on Economic Analysis ”. University of Murcia.
Murcia-Spain. December 2005.
“International
Conference of Finance ”. Copenhagen-Denmark. September 2005.
“XXI
Jornadas de Economía Industrial ”. Bilbao-Spain. September 2005.
“European
Financial Management Association (EFMA) Meetings ”. Milan-Italy. June
2005.
“XXXI
EARIE Conference ”. Berlin-Germany. September 2004.
“Brown
Bag Seminar”. University of the Basque Country. Bilbao-Spain. March
2004.
“Conference
on Venezuelan Economy ” . Institute for Social Studies. Bilbao-Spain.
May 2002
“XXVI
Simposium on Economic Analysis ”. University of Alicante-AEFIN. Alicante-Spain. December
2001.
“VII
Simposium on International Economics and Finance”. University of Málaga-AEFIN. Málaga-Spain. June 2001.
“IV
Meeting of Applied Economics”. Revista de Economía Aplicada.
Reus-Spain. June 2001.
“VIII
Forum on Finance”. University Carlos III of Madrid-AEFIN.
Madrid-Spain. October 2000.
“III
Forum on Financial Economics”. BBVA-University of the Basque Country.
Bilbao-Spain. June 1998.
“Inflationary
Experiences in Latin America”.
Central Bank of Venezuela.
Caracas-Venezuela. November 1995.
“III
Conference of Economics”.
University Catholic Andrés Bello. Caracas-Venezuela. May 1994.
SEMINARS AND COURSES
“Credit
Risk”. University of the Basque Country. Bilbao-Spain. November 1999.
10 hours.
“Solving
Rational Expectative Models”. University of the Basque
Country.Bilbao-Spain. October 1998. 18
hours.
“Derivates Market in
Venezuela”. (MEFF)-Comisión Nacional de Valores.Caracas -Venezuela.
April 1997. 16 hours.
“Writing Tecnic Reports”.
EIDOS: Informática y Educación C.A. Caracas-Venezuela. December 1997.
16 hours.
“Analysis
of Banking Risk”. Venezuelan Institute of Finance. Caracas-Venezuela.
March 1996. 8 hours.
LANGUAGES AND COMPUTER
SKILLS
Spanish
(Mother tongue); English (Good); Italian (Good).
Windows,
Microsoft Office, statistical and econometric softwares (RATS, GAUSS,
SPSS), Scientific Workplace.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA. Granada-Spain.
Assistant
Professor of Macroeconomics, Microeconomics. Oct’06 up to date.
UNIVERSITY
OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY. Bilbao-Spain.
Professor
of Macroeconomics, Microeconomics
and Industrial Organization. Sep’03-Jul’06.
INSTITUTE OF MARKETING OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY.
Bilbao-Spain.
Part-time
Professor of Statistics, Macroeconomics, International Economics.
Feb’02-Sep’04.
UNIVERSITY
SANTA MARIA.
Caracas-Venezuela.
Part-time
Professor of Microeconomics. Oct’96 – Feb’97
CENTRAL UNIVERSITY
OF VENEZUELA.
Caracas-Venezuela.
Teaching
Assistant of International Economics. Oct’94 – Jul’95
PUBLICATIONS
JOURNALS
• “The January Effect across
Volatility Regimes”, with B. Agnani. Forthcoming in Quantitative
Finance.
• “Going Multinational under
Exchange Rate Uncertainty”, with J. Gardeazabal. Forthcoming in
Journal of International Money and Finance.
• “Subsidies and Awards in
Movie Production”, with B. Agnani. Forthcoming in Applied Economics
Letters.
• “International Monopoly
under Uncertainty”. International Journal of Economics(2) No 1, 2008.
• “Producción
Cinematográfica en España: ¿Existe un Efecto Oscar?”, with L.M
García. Cuadernos de Economía de la Cultura. 2008. Nº 9.
BOOKS
• Impacto
Económico de la
Universidad de Granada en su Entorno. Chapter: Impacto
Económico de la
Universidad de Granada en el Mercado Laboral. Editor.
Teodoro Luque Martínez.
• La
pedagogía como herramienta de asimilación de conocimiento. ISBN
849268026-1.
WORKING PAPERS
• “And the Oscar goes to
……Peeeeedrooooo!”. ThE Papers 07/03. University of Granada.
Submitted to Journal of Media Economics.
• “Effects of Macroeconomic
Announcements on Stock Returns across Volatility Regimes”. Revise and
resubmit in Economics Notes.
• “Political Parties,
Two-Level Governance and Economic Growth”. Revised and resubmitted to Journal of
Regional Sciences.
• “The Latin American and
Spanish Stock Markets. ThE Papers 06/12. University of Granada.
Submitted to International Journal of Financial Markets and Derivatives.
• “Macroeconomic Announcements
and Individual Stock Returns”. In progress.
• “Calendar Effects on Stock
Returns across Multiple States”. In progress.
• “Dutch Disease: a Real
Option Approach”. In progress.
VISITING POSITIONS
• Department of Economics. University of Leicester. Leicester-United Kingdom.
June-September 2009.
• Departamento
de Fundamentos del Análisis Económico II. University of the Basque Country.
Bilbao-Spain. September 2008.
• Departamento
de Fundamentos del Análisis Económico II. University of the Basque
Country. Bilbao-Spain. March 2008.
RESEARCH PROJECTS
• “Group on
Macroeconomics” Nº 9/UPV 00035.321-13511/2001. Jan’01 - Dec’
2005.
• “Social Preferences:
Altruism, Public Good and Social Networks. Nº SEJ2007-62081/ECON.
2008-2010.
• “Discrimination by Gender,
Race and Physical Attributes: Applications to the Labour Market ”. Nº
SEJ-2547. 2008-2010.
• “ Teaching Innovation”.
2007-2008
• “Group on Economic Analysis
(GAMMA)”. Nº SEJ 340. 2007-2008.
• “Political Desagreements and
Growth” Nº PRY112/08. Centro
de Estudios Andaluces-Junta de Andalucia. Jan’08 -
Dec’08.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
CENTRAL
BANK OF VENEZUELA.
Caracas, Venezuela
Department
of Analysis of Financial Institutions. Financial Analyst. Full time. Jan. ‘96-Aug. ’97.
Aim:
analysis of the banking system performance in order to support decisions on
monetary policy. Main tasks:
• Constructed indicators to rank the
banking institutions.
• Developed methodologies to survey
the performance of the Venezuelan Banking Sector.
• In charge to present biannual and
quarterly reports on the behavior of the Venezuelan Banking Sector.
• Portfolio Adviser of Public
Institutions.
Department
of Macroeconomic Accounts. Economic
Assistant. Full time. Oct. ‘93-Jan. ’96.
Aim:
to construct the macroeconomic aggregated variables, both supply and demand
sides. Main tasks:
• Collaborated in short term
projects of National Accounts: Quarterly and monthly GDP.
• In charge to construct the
accounts of agricultural and electric public sectors and miner private
sector.
• In charge to supply statistics
about National Accounts to international institutions (IMF, World Bank,
etc.).
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
• Referee services: Applied
Economics, Applied Financial Economics, Spanish Economic Review, Cuadernos
de Economía.
• Coordinator of the Erasmus
Program.
• Member of the Council of the
Department of Econometrics, University of the Basque Country 2002-2003.
• Member of the Spanish Economic
Association.
• Member of the local committee of
the XXXII SAE (2007), First Spring Economic Workshop and Jornadas de
Docencia en Economía.
• Member of the Committee of the
Doctoral Program “Empirical Economics” of the University of Granada.
2007-2009.
• Discussant of the working papers:
“The
Diffusion of Celullar Telephony in Portugal before UMTS: A Time
Series Approach”.
Pedro Pereira (Autoridade da Concorrência, Portugal)
and José C. Pernías-Cerrillo (Universidad Jaume I, Spain).“XXI
Jornadas de Economía Industrial ”. Bilbao-Spain. September
2005.
“EU
financial integration: Is there a ‘core Europe
’?- Evidence from a cluster-based approach”.
T.
Kiehlborn (Goeth-University Frankfurt) and
M. Mietzner (Wilhelms-University Münster).
“European
Financial Management Association Meetings ”. Milan-Italy. June 2005.
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