Javier Andrés is Professor of Economics at the University of Valencia since 1991 and holds a Master’s degree in Economics from the London School of Economics where he has also been a visiting researcher at the Centre for Economic Performance. He has published numerous papers in scholarly journals and books. His research interests include economic growth and the labor market, fiscal and monetary policies, and the effect of financial frictions on the business cycle and macroeconomic stability. He currently studies the process of macroeconomic adjustment after the financial crisis in economies with high private and public debt and heterogeneous households and firms, as well as the economic and welfare effects of the digital revolution. 

Javier is research consultant on macroeconomic modeling for the Banco de España, member of the Advisory Board of AIReF (Autoridad Independiente de Responsabilidad Fiscal) and Fellow of the Spanish Economic Association. He has been managing editor of Moneda y Crédito, co-editor of the Blog Nada es Gratis, member of the board of several scientific journals and was the head of the Spanish National Research Program in Economics from 2000 to 2003. He has recently coauthored (with Rafael Domenech) two books: En busca de la prosperidad (2015, Deusto, Planeta) and La era de la disrupción digital (2020, Deusto, Planeta).

(https://www.uv.es/jandres/JANDRES_CV_WEB.pdf)

Selected publications

“Inflation and optimal monetary policy in a model with firm heterogeneity and Bertrand competition”, European Economic Review, Vol. 103, pages 18-38 (with P. Burriel).

“Structural reforms in a debt overhang”, Journal of Monetary Economics, Vol. 88, pages 15-34 (with O. Arce and C. Thomas).

“Banking competition, collateral constraints and optimal monetary policy”, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, vol. 45, pages 87-125 (with O. Arce and C. Thomas).

“Banking competition, housing prices and macroeconomic stability”, The Economic Journal, Vol. 122, 2012, 1346-1372 (with Oscar Arce).

“Money in an Estimated Business Cycle Model of the Euro Area”, The Economic Journal, 2006, Vol. 116, pages 457-477 (with J.D. López-Salido and J. Vallés)

Dr. José E. Boscá is Professor of Economics at the University of Valencia and Associated Researcher at FEDEA. He holds the Advanced Studies Certificate in International Economic Policy from Kiel Institute for the World Economy (Germany) and a PhD in Economics from the University of Valencia. J. Boscá has been senior invited research fellow at the University of Kent and collaborates regularly as external researcher with the Spanish Ministries of Economics and of Finance, the Rafael del Pino Foundation and BBVA Research. He is coauthor of REMS and EREMS, two dynamic general equilibrium models that BBVA Research and the Spanish Ministries of Economics and of Finance use to simulate macroeconomic policies and to evaluate shocks hitting the economy. He has published numerous articles in well-known international scientific journals on economic growth, business cycles, regional economics and fiscal policies. Among others these journals include European Economic Review, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Economica, Oxford Economic Papers, Economic Inquiry, Journal of Regional Science or Regional Studies.

Five selected publications:

1. Andrés, J.; Boscá, J. E. y J. Ferri (2016): ‘Instruments, rules and household debt: the effects of fiscal policy, Oxford Economic Papers, 68, 419-443.
2. Andrés, J.; Boscá, J. E. y J. Ferri (2015): ‘Household debt and fiscal multipliers’, Economica, 82, 1048-1081.
3. Andrés, J., Boscá, J. E. y Ferri J. (2013): “Household Debt and Labor Market Fluctuations”, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 37(9), 1771-1795.
4. Boscá, J. E., Doménech, R. y Ferri J. (2011): “Search, Nash Bargaining and Rule of Thumb Consumers”, European Economic Review, 55, 927-942.
5. Boscá, J. E., Doménech, R., Ferri, J., y J. Varela (Eds.) (2011): “The Spanish Economy: A General Equilibrium Perspective”. Palgrave MacMillan. Londres (Reino Unido). ISBN: 978-0-230-284654.

Dr. Pedro Cantos Sánchez has a degree in Economics at the Universidad de Valencia (Valencia, Spain). He is Master in Transport Economics at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and doctor in Economics (with honors) at the Universidad de Valencia. Currently he is Professor of Economics at the Economic Analysis Department of the Universidad Valencia and researcher of the ERI-CES also of the Universidad de Valencia. His main research areas are the transport economics, applied industrial organization, liberalization and deregulation, and efficiency and productivity in transport markets. He has published numerous papers in prestigious journals as Transport Reviews, Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, Transport Policy, Journal or Transport Economics and Policy, Regional Science and Urban Economics, The Manchester School, Transportation, International Journal of Transport Economics, Economics of Transportation and Research in Transportation Economics. He has collaborated in 22 competitive national research projects (being Principal Researcher in 6 projects), in two European projects and a project for the World Bank. He has participated in 75 international and national conferences, and taught numerous seminars in prestigious universities and research centers.

Five selected/recent publications:

1. Cantos, P. (2020). “A three-stage competition game in an air transport network under asymmetric valuation of flight frequencies”. Economics of Transportation 21 (2020) 100141 (jointly with O. Álvarez, R. Moner and J.J. Sempere). Impact factor: 1.750
2. Cantos, P (2018). “The impact of scrappage programmes on the demand for new vehicles: Evidence from Spain”. Research in Transportation Economics (jointly with E. Gutiérrez and I. Mulalic), vol 70, 83-96. Impact factor: 1.798.
3. Cantos, P. (2015). “The impact on port competition of the integration of port and inland transport services”. Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, Vol. 80, 291- 302 (jointly with O. Álvarez, R. Moner and J.J. Sempere). Impact factor: 2.952.
4. Cantos, P. (2013). “Competition and horizontal integration in maritime freight transport”. Transportation Research Part E, vol 51, 67-81 (jointly with O. Álvarez, R. Moner and J.J. Sempere). Impact Factor 2013: 2.193
5. Cantos, P. (2012). “Evaluating European railway deregulation using different approaches”. Transport Policy, vol. 24, 67-72 (jointly with J. M. Pastor, and L. Serrano. Impact factor: 1.541.

Santiago J. Rubio Jorge (Valencia, 1958) is full professor of the Economic Analysis Department at the University of Valencia (UV). Bachelor of Economics (1982) from the UV, he has a Master in Energy Economics from the French Institute of Pretoleum and the University of Dijon and a doctoral degree in Economics from the UV. During the course 1992-1993, he was a Visiting Scholar at the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California at Berkeley and in 2002 was visiting the Economics Department at the University of Southampton. In 2016 he visited the University of Valladolid and GERAD in Montréal. In 2009, he was awarded with the National Prize Lucas Mallada in Economics and Environment awarded by the Spanish Government. From 2002 to 2005 served as Second Vice-President of the Spanish-Portuguese Association of Environmental and Natural Resource Economics (AERNA) and in 2006 was elected member of the Council of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE) and acted as its Vice-President from 2008 to 2009. In 2012 was appointed Head of the Department of Economic Analysis at the University of Valencia and in 2017 was elected as Incoming President of AERNA and appointed as President in 2018 until 2020.

Specialist in Environmental and Resource Economics, he has addressed different issues in this field among which it can be mentioned the optimal management of water resources, the analysis of environmental policy from a strategic point of view and mainly the stability of international environmental agreements. He has published more than thirty papers in national and international journals.  He has also served as referee for more than forty journals and from 2003 to 2015, he acted as Associate Editor of Economía Agrarias y Recursos Naturales – Agricultural and Resource Economics edited by the Spanish Association of Agricultural Economics, and from 2013 to 2019 was Advisory Editor of Environmental Modeling & Assessment. At present he serves as Associate Editor of Environment and Development Economics a journal published by CUP in association with the Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

http://www.uv.es/srubio/CV_archivos/CV_English.pdf

Selected papers

Martín-Herrán, Guiomar, and Santiago J. Rubio (2023). "Efficiency-inducing policy for polluting oligopolists." Dynamic Games and Applications, forthcoming.

Borrero, Miguel, and Santiago J. Rubio (2022). "An adaptation-mitigation game: Does adaptation promote participation in international environmentalagreements?" International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics, 22, 439-479.

García-Alaminos, Ángela, and Santiago J. Rubio (2021). "Emission taxes and feed-in subsidies in the regulation of a polluting monopoly." SERIEs Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 12, 255-279.

Rubio, Santiago J., and Alistair Ulph (2007). "An infinite-horizon model of dynamic membership of international environmental agreements." Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 54, 296-310.

Rubio, Santiago J., and Luisa Escriche (2001). "Strategic pigouvian taxation, stock externalities and polluting non-renewable resources." Journal of Public Economics 79, 297-313.

Dr. Jose J. Sempere Monerris earned a degree in Economics with honors at the University of Valencia, a Master in Industrial Economics with distinction at the Université catholique de Louvain (UCL) and a Ph. D. in Quantitative Economics (1995) under the European Doctoral Programme at CORE-UCL. He is Full Professor of Economics at the Faculty of Economics and Research Fellow at the ERI-CEs (University of Valencia) and Research Associate at CORE- UCL. He was a Visiting Associate Professor in the Strategy and Business Economics Division of the Sauder School of Business at the University British Columbia in Vancouver (Canada) from August 2010 to August 2011. During his PhD he got different scholarships from the Generalitat Valenciana, the College of Spain in Paris-Fundación Banco Exterior de España, and the Human Capital and Mobility Programme of the European Union (Currently Marie Curie Fellowships). His main research areas of interest include industrial economics, economics of innovation, transportation economics, networks and competition policy. He is co-author of more than thirty papers in specialist journals such as Applied Economics, Canadian Journal of Economics, Economics Letters, Economics of Innovation and New Technology, Journal of Economics , Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, Regional Science and Urban Economics, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Southern Economic Journal, Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, Transport Policy among others. He has supervised 4 PhD dissertations and 17 Master Thesis. He has participated in more than ninety international and Spanish conferences. He has been a member in more than fifteen competitive research grants financed by EU or National institutions or financed by Private institutions.

Academic IDs:

ORCID: 0000-0001-6759-2117
Researcher ID: E-6234-2016
Scopus Author ID: 6507343777

Selected publications:

1. Óscar Álvarez-SanJaime; Pedro Cantos-Sánchez; Rafael Moner-Coloques, Jose J. Sempere-Monerris (2021) The effect of cooperative infrastructure fees on high-speed rail and airline competition. Transport Policy, 112, pp. 125 - 141 . ISSN: 0967-070X

2. Pedro Mendi; Rafael Moner-Colonques; José J. Sempere-Monerris (2020) Cooperation for Innovation and Technology Licensing: Empirical Evidence from Spain. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 154(119976), pp. 1 - 7 . ISSN: 0040-1625

3. Álvarez-San Jaime, Óscar, Pedro Cantos Sánchez, Rafael Moner-Colonques and Jose J. Sempere-Monerris (2016) “Rail Access charges and internal competition in high speed trains”, Transport Policy, vol. 49, pp: 184-195.http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tranpol.2016.04.006

4. Óscar Álvarez San Jaime; Pedro Cantos; Rafael Moner Colonques; Jose J. Sempere-Monerris. (2015) The impact on port competition of the integration of port and inland transport services. Transportation Research Part B-Methodological, 71(80), pp. 291 - 302 . ISSN: 0191-2615

5. Óscar Álvarez San Jaime; Pedro Cantos Sanchez; Rafael Moner Colonques; José J. Sempere Monerris (2013) Competition and horizontal integration in maritime freight transport. Transportation Research Part E-Logistics and Transportation Review, 51(5), pp. 67 - 81 . ISSN: 1366-5545 

6. Óscar Álvarez San Jaime; Pedro Cantos Sanchez; Rafael Moner Colonques; José J. Sempere Monerris (2013) Vertical integration and exclusivities in maritime freight transport. Transportation Research Part E-Logistics and Transportation Review, 51(5), pp. 50 - 61 . ISSN: 1366-5545

7. Mauleon, Ana, Jose J. Sempere-Monerris and Vincent J. Vannetelbosch. (2011) “Networks of Manufacturers and Retailers“, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, vol. 77, pp. 351-367. DOI:10.1016/j.jebo.2010.11.007
8. Moner-Colonques, Rafael, Jose J. Sempere-Monerris and Amparo Urbano. (2004) “Strategic Delegation with Multi-Product Firms”, Journal of Economics and Management Strategy vol. 13 (3) pp. 405-427 Fall (2004).

Dr. María Amparo Urbano is Professor of Economics at the University of Valencia, General Studies (UVEG). A former Fulbright Scholar, she got her Ph. D. in Economics at the University of Illinois, USA in 1989 and won the “Doctoral Prize” in Economics at the University of Valencia in 1990, for a second Doctoral Thesis on Market Games with Bayesian Learning. Professor Urbano has been Member of the Research Commission, Member of the Permanent Committee of Research of the and nowadays Vice-director of the Doctoral School of the UVEG. In the Department of Economic Analysis at the University of Valencia she has been serving as director of PhD studies and as director of “ERI-CES” (a Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Economics at the University of Valencia) since 2000 and 2006, respectively. She has also served to the Spanish Academic Community by being a member of the National Agency for Evaluation and Prospective in Economics (ANEP), member of the Council of the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics, President of the Economic Spanish Association, and jury of the Pascual Madoz National Prize in Economics. Professor Urbano has organized many International Meetings on Game Theory and Applications such as the Summer Meetings en “Game Theory and Economic Applications” (Valencia-Stony Brook (USA)), 34th Annual Conference of the European Association for Research in Industrial Economics (EARIE), 2º Meeting on Game Theory in Brazil, etc., and has been Member of many Scientific Committees of the most prestigious Conferences on Game Theory. Professor Urbano research interests include Mathematical Microeconomics, Game Theory, Economics of Information and Industrial Organization. She has published around sixty papers, some of them in the most prestigious journals in the area such as, Econometrica, Journal of Economic Theory, International Journal of Game Theory, Journal of Mathematical Economics, Games and Economic Behaviour, International Economic Review, Economic Theory, etc. She has supervised several Doctoral Thesis, has obtained many Research Projects in public Spanish Competition and has been key Speaker in the most prestigious International Conferences and Seminars on Game Theory and Applications such as Stony Brook (USA), Paris, Jerusalem, Barcelona Jocs, Louvain La Neuve, etc.

Five selected/recent publications:

1. “Identification of efficient equilibria in multiproduct trading with indivisibilities and non-monotonicity,” (with I. Arribas) Journal of Mathematical Economics, 79, pp. 83-94, 2018.
2. “Learning in Markets,” Handbook of Game Theory and Industrial Organization, Vol I, Cap. 17. Pp. 486–519. L. Corchón and M. Marini (Eds.), Edward Elgar Publishing, Febrero 2018.
3. “Multiproduct Trading with a common agent under complete information,” (with I. Arribas) Journal of Economic Theory, 167, pp. 14-38, 2017.
4. "Entry and espionage with noisy signals," (with A. Barrachina, Yair Tauman) Games and Economic Behavior, 83, pp. 127-146, 2014.
5. “Computational Complexity and Communication: Coordination in two-player Games," (with Jose Enrique Vila) Econometrica, vol. 70, pp. 1893-1927, (2002).