[Biografia, versió en valencià]

Llicenciat en Ciències Econòmiques i doctor (Premi Extraordinari) en Economia per la Universitat de València, és catedràtic d’universitat de Fonaments de l’Anàlisi Econòmica en la mateixa universitat i professor investigador de l’Ivie. Els seus camps d’especialització són l’economia bancària, el capital social, l’anàlisi de la productivitat i el paper de les tecnologies de la informació i la comunicació i dels actius intangibles en el creixement econòmic. Ha sigut investigador dels projectes finançats pel 7é Programa Marc de la Unió Europea, INDICSER i SPINTAN, i consultor del Banc Europeu d’Inversions, la Comissió Europea i l’ONU. Ha participat en quatre projectes del Pla Nacional d’I+D+i, i ha sigut investigador principal de projectes competitius de la Generalitat Valenciana. Participa regularment en projectes competitius per a la Comissió Europea (Projecte PREDICT). Ha publicat més de 30 llibres o capítols de llibre (Cambridge University Press, Fundació BBVA, etc.), i ha sigut coeditor de tres llibres per a editorials com la Fundació BBVA, Palgrave MacMillan o Cambridge University Press. Així mateix, és autor de més de 30 articles en revistes especialitzades com Journal of Banking and Finance, The Manchester School, The European Journal of Finance, Journal of International Money and Finance, Revista de Economía Aplicada, Regional Studies, Applied Economics Letters, Journal of Higher Education i Journal of Financial Stability, entre altres, i ha participat en nombrosos congressos nacionals i internacionals.

Amparo Nagore és professora permanent laboral al Departament d'Economia Financera i Actuarial de la Universitat de València (UV). Va obtindre les seues llicenciatures en Administració i Direcció d'Empreses (2000) i en Ciències Actuarials i Financeres (2001) per la UV, i va completar un Màster Interuniversitari en Finances Quantitatives (2001-2003) finançat pel Ministeri de Ciència i Tecnologia espanyol. La seua experiència professional inclou investigació a l'Institut Valencià d'Investigacions Econòmiques (IVIE, 2003-2004), analista financera a Econocom, Barcelona (2005-2006), analista de finances estructurades a Intermoney Titulització, Madrid (2006-2008), i Analista Financera al Banc de València (2008-2010). Va començar a impartir docència a la UV en 2008 , inicialment com a professora associada a temps parcial en els Departaments de Finances i Economia Financera i Actuarial i posteriorment com a professora ajudant al Departament d'Economia Aplicada (2010-2015). En 2015, va defendre la seua tesi doctoral "Essays on employment and unemployment transitions" en un programa de doctorat conjunt entre la Universitat de Tilburg i la UV, rebent el premi extraordinari de doctorat. Posteriorment va treballar com a investigadora a LISER (Luxemburg) abans de tornar a la UV com a professora ajudant doctora (2018) del departament d'Economia Financera i Actuarial i més tard com a professora permanent laboral  (2020). Els seus assoliments acadèmics inclouen un Sexenni d'Investigació de l'ANECA (2023), dos quinquenis  i l'acreditació a Professora Titular (maig de 2025).

Àrees d’especialització: economia laboral aplicada, microeconometria, economia de la jubilació i de les pensions, anàlisi de durada, avaluació de polítiques.

Carlos Salvador holds a PhD of Banking and Quantitate finance (with special honors) and a degree in Economics from the faculty of Economics at the University of Valencia, where he is currently Associate Professor of Economic Analysis (Profesor Titular in Spanish Universitary System). He was researcher and Assistant Professor in the department of Economic and History of CUNEF Business School (2013-2018) and a visiting researcher at the College of Business at Bangor University (United Kingdom) in 2012. His fields of specialization are the financial economics, Banking and Macroeconomics. His most outstanding research works have been published in international journals such as Journal of Financial Stability, Journal of International Money and Finance, Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions & Money, International Review of Financial Analysis, Financial Research Letters, Research in International Business and Finance, The North American Journal of Economics and Finance, The Spanish Review of Financial Economics, Applied Economics letters, Spanish Journal of Finance and Accounting, Regional and Sectoral Economic Studies. Among others, he has presented at the French Finance Association (AFFI), ACEDE Conference, Foro de Finanzas (AEFIN), Conference on International Finance (INFINITI) and The European Association of University Teachers of Banking and Finance. He has been researcher in the projects funded by the European Commission, Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, Government of Madrid and Generalitat Valenciana. In the professional field, he has been technician in risks in Adquiera (Bankia Group), scholarship holder in the investment department of ASEVAL (AVIVA group) and training staff at the insurance department of the Valencia regional government. Furthermore, he has published articles about monetary policy in several newspapers and specialized magazines such as Expansión, Cinco Dias, el Economista and Valencia Plaza, among others.

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).