Education and Experience

Fields of Interest

Public Finance, Welfare Economics, Applied Microeconomics, Environmental Economics, Statistics, Econometrics, Bayesian Methods

12/91: Ph.D. in Economics, specialization in Public Finance and Econometrics, University of Michigan
05/88: M.A. in Statistics, University of Michigan
06/84: Licenciado in Economics, major on Quantitative Economics and Economic Analysis, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain

08/06-08/11: The World Bank, Washington DC, Lead Economist, Economic Policy and Debt Department (PRMED)
06/98-08/06: International Monetary Fund, Washington DC • 12/05-08/06: Senior Economist, Macroeconomic Studies, Research Dept • 04/05-11/05: Senior Economist, Tax Policy, Fiscal Affairs Dept • 04/03-04/05: Senior Economist, Fiscal Policy and Surveillance, Fiscal Affairs Dept • 01/01-03/03: Senior Economist, Asian Division, IMF Institute • 06/98-12/00: Economist, Tax Policy Div, Fiscal Affairs Dept
11/96-06/98: Senior Economist, FEDEA, Madrid, Spain
09/94-09/96: Fellow, Energy and Natural Resources Division, Resources for the Future, Washington DC
12/91-08/94: Assistant Professor of Economics, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
09-12/93: Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Michigan
March-April/92: Lecturer in the Graduate Program in Public Administration, Instituto Universitario Ortega y Gasset, Madrid
08-09/91: Assistant Professor of Economics, Summer School of Economics, Olsztyn, Poland
01-04/91: Adjunct Lecturer in Economics, University of Michigan
06-07/90&93: Lecturer of Mathematics, Summer Program in Policy Skills for Minority Students, Gerald Ford School of Public Policy Studies, University of Michigan
01/88-01/90: Various RA/TA positions, Economics Department, University of Michigan (Hal Varian,Ted Bergstrom, David Lam and Jeff Miron)

(Man)aging editor of the Spanish Economic Review (2007-09)
Advisory Board of Investigaciones Económicas, 1996-98; editorial Board 1994-2003; IMF Staff Papers, editorial board, 2001-06; Revista de Economía Aplicada, editorial board, 2003-06.
Referee for the Journals: American Economic Review, Investigaciones Económicas, Cuadernos de Economía, Revista Española de Economía, Journal of Public Economics, Revista Española de Estadística, The Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Industrial Economics, Economics Letters, IMF Staff Papers, Economics Bulletin, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Business and Economics Statistics, etc.
Scientific Committee: IMF Annual Research Conference (2006, 2004); Spanish Economic Association Symposium (2006, 2005, 2003); Encuentros de Economía Aplicada (2007, 2005, 2004).
Translation into Spanish (with Marina Fominaya) of Hal R. Varian and Ted Bergstrom (1990): Workouts in Intermediate Microeconomics, NY: Norton. Technical revision of the Spanish version of M.L. Katz and H.S. Rosen (1991): Microeconomics, Boston: Irwin.