Dr. Pilar Beneito López is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Economics and, Associated Researcher of the Social and Economic Behaviour Institute (ERI-CES) at the Universitat de València. Pilar holds a Bachelor’s degree and a Ph.D. in Economics from the Universitat de València, and an M.Sc. in Economics from University College London. Her main research interests are in the areas of Applied Industrial Economics; Economics of Innovation; Economics of Education; Gender Economics, and Microeconometrics. Her work has been published in several scientific journals including Economics of Education Review, Journal of Industrial Economics, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Oxford Economic Papers, Research Policy, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, among others. She has been involved in many national and international projects and has attended numerous national and international conferences and workshops.

Five selected/recent publications:

1. Beneito, P.; Boscá, J.E.; Ferri, J. (2018): “Tuition fees and student effort at university”, Economics of Education Review, 64, 114-128.
2. Beneito, P.; Rochina, M.E.; Sanchis A. (2017): “Competition and innovation with selective exit: an inverted-U shape relationship?”, Oxford Economic Papers, 69(4), 1032–1053.
3. Beneito, P.; Coscollá, M.; Rochina, M.E.; Sanchis A. (2015) “Competitive Pressure and Innovation at the Firm Level”, Journal of Industrial Economics, 63(3), 422-457.
4. Beneito, P.; Rochina, M.E.; Sanchis A. (2015): “The path of R&D efficiency over time”, International Journal of Industrial Organization, 42, 57-69.
5. Beneito, P. (2006): "The innovative performance of in-house and contracted R&D in terms of patents and utility models," Research Policy, 35(4), 502-517.

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Víctor Gómez Blanco és professor ajudant doctor en el Departament d'Estructura Econòmica de la Universitat de València i investigador afiliat de l'Institut *Figuerola. La seua investigació se centra en finances, història econòmica i desigualtat, i ha sigut publicada en revistes com *Economic *History *Review.

Després d'obtindre el doctorat en la Universitat Carlos III de Madrid en 2021, va treballar durant un any com a investigador contractat en un projecte ERC en l'Institut Carlos III-Juan March i en un projecte de la xarxa Leonardo (BBVA) tots dos sobre desigualtat. Més endavant, va ser becari *postdoctoral en el Departament de Finances de *Tilburg *University.

La seua experiència docent, abans de *universe a la *Univertat de València, es va desenvolupar en la Universitat Carlos III de *Mardrid i en la Universitat *Computense de Madrid i inclou les assignatures de Microeconomia, Macroeconomia, Història Econòmica, Creixement Econòmic i Econometria.

El doctor Juan A. Máñez és llicenciat en Economia per la Universitat de València, és màster en Economia per la Universitat de Warwick i doctor en Economia per la Universitat de Warwick. En la actualitat és Catedràtic d’Economia Aplicada al Departament d’Estructura Econòmica de la Universitat de València i investigador associat de l’Institut de Comportament Econòmic i Social (ERI-CES) de la Universitat de València. La seva docència es centra en els camps d'Economia Internacional, Organització Industrial i Microeconometria. La seva línia principal d’investigació es l’anàlisi del paper del comercio i les activitats innovadores en els resultats de les empreses. També manté obertes altres línies d’investigació com l’anàlisi del paper de les activitats intangibles, supervivència de les empreses, decisions estratègiques i economia experimental. El seu treball d’investigació ha resultat en una sèrie de publicacions (43 publicacions científiques, de les cuals 32 estan en revistes JCR). Va participar en 31 projectes nacionals (6 d’ells com a líder d’equip) i 4 projectes internacionals (3 projectes de la UE i 1 projecte del Banc Mundial). Ha participat en entorn de 130 conferències i workshops nacionals i internacionals.

1. Mañez, J.A., Mínguez, C., Rochina, M.E., Sanchis, J.A., 2019, Trading activities, productivity and markups: evidence from Spanish manufacturing, World Economy, DOI. 10.1111/twec.12892
2. Mañez, J.A., Pérez-López, G., Prior, D. And J.L. Zafra-Gómez, 2016, Understanding the Dynamic Effect of Contracting Out on the Delivery of Local Public Services. Regional Studies, 50(12), 2069-2080.
3. Manjón, M. and J.A. Mañez, 2016, Production function estimation in Stata using the Ackerberg–Caves–Frazer method. Stata Journal, 16(4), 1046-1059.
4. Mañez, J.A., Rochina, M.E., Sanchis A. and Sanchis, J.A., 2009, The role of sunk in the decision to invest in R&D, Journal of Industrial Economics, 57(4), pp. 712-735.
5. Mañez, J.A., 2006, Unbeatable Value low price guarantee: collusive mechanism or advertising strategy, Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, 15(1), pp. 143-166.

Jordi Paniagua és profesor d’Economia al departament d’Estructura Econòmica (Economia Aplicada II) de la Universitat de València.

Dr. Jesús Peiró-Palomino is Associate Professor at the Department of Applied Economics II (Estructura Econòmica), University of Valencia. He holds a PhD in Economics by the University Jaume I (Castellón, Spain). He has been Assistant Professor at University Jaume I (2016-2019) and visited the Aarhus University (Denmark, Fall 2013) and the Utrecht University (Netherlands, Fall 2017). His research interests are institutions and their role in economic development processes, especially at the regional level. He is also interested in the measurement of well-being and social progress, their spatial distribution and their evolution over time. His work has been published in several international scientific journals and he has also participated in different competitive projects.

Personal website:

https://sites.google.com/view/jesuspeiropalomino

Selected publications

1. Peiró-Palomino, J., Picazo-Tadeo, A.J., Rios, V. (2020). Well-being in European regions. Does government quality matter? Papers in Regional Science, 99(3), 555-582.
2. Peiró-Palomino, J., Picazo-Tadeo, A.J. (2019). Is social capital green? Cultural features and environmental performance in the European Union. Environmental and Resource Economics, 72: 795-822.
3. Cruz-García, P., Peiró-Palomino, J. (2019). Informal, formal institutions and credit. Complements or substitutes? Journal of Institutional Economics, 15, 649-671.
4. Peiró-Palomino, J. (2016). Social capital and economic growth in Europe: nonlinear trends and heterogeneous regional effects. Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 78 (5), 717-751.
5. Forte, A., Peiró-Palomino, J., Tortosa-Ausina, E. (2015). Does social capital matter for European regional growth? European Economic Review, 77, 47-64.

Dr. Francisco Requena Silvente is Full Professor in Applied Economics at the Universitat de València. He got his Ph.D. in Economics from the London School of Economics. He was Reader in Economics at University of Sheffield (2013-2016) and Assistant Professor at University of California, Davis (2008-2009). His main research area is Applied International Economics, with special interest in international trade and international migration. His work has been published in several scientific journals including Review of World Economy, The World Economy, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Small Business Economics, Regional Studies, among others.

Five selected/recent publications:

1.      De Lucio, Juan, Mínguez, R., Minondo, A, Requena, F (2020) “The granular and fundamental components of export specialization”, The World Economy, forthcoming.

2.      Martín-Montaner, J., Serrano, G., Requena, F. (2018) “Networks and self-employment migrants”, Small Business Economics, 51, 735-755.

3.      Gil-Pareja, S., Martinez-Serrano, J., Llorca, R., Requena, F,. (2015), “Regional export promotion offices and trade margins”, Review of World Economy, 151 (1), 145-167.

4.      Esteve, S., Pallardo, V., Requena, F. (2013) The duration of firm-destination export relationships: Evidence from Spain, 1997-2006, Economic Inquiry, 51(1) , 159-180.

5.      Peri, G. and Requena-Silvente, Francisco (2010) The Trade Creation Effect of Immigrants: Evidence from the Remarkable Case of Spain, Canadian Journal of Economics, 43(4) 1433-1459.

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. Juan A. Sanchis Llopis is Professor in Economics in the Applied Economics Department of the University of Valencia (Spain). He is also affiliated to the Interdisciplinary Research Network “Social and Economic Behaviour (ERI-CES)” from the University of Valencia. He has an economic background, with a M.Sc. and a Ph.D. in Economics from University College London, the University of London. His current research area focuses on applied industrial economics, and in particular on firm strategic decisions such as the engagement in R&D activities or exporting or both. He has participated in several projects supported by the Spanish Ministry of Economics, Industry and Competitiveness and by the European Commission and the Valencian government. His publications include articles in the Journal of Industrial Economics, the Industrial and Corporate Change, the World Economics, Empirica, the Review of Industrial Organizationand the Small Business Economics, among others.

Five selected/recent publications:

1. Mañez, J.A., C. Mínguez, M.E. Rochina-Barrachina and J.A. Sanchis-Llopis (2019). Trading activities, productivity and markups: Evidence for Spanish manufacturinga. World Economy. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/twec.12892
2. Expósito, A. and J.A. Sanchis-Llopis (2019). The effects of innovation on the decisions of exporting and/or importing in SMEs: empirical evidence in the case of Spain. Small Business Economics. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-019-00184-3
3. Benito-Ostolaza, J.M., P. Hernández and J.A. Sanchis-Llopis (2016) .Do individuals with higher cognitive ability play more strategically?. Journal Of Behavioral And Experimental Economics. 64, 5 - 11.

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socec.2016.01.005

1. Sanchis Llopis, M.T., J.A. Sanchis-Llopis, A. Cubel and V. Esteve (2015). Total factor productivity, domestic knowledge accumulation, and international knowledge spillovers in the second half of the twentieth century. Cliometrica. 9, 209 - 233.
2. Mañez, J.A., M.E. Rochina-Barrachina, A. Sanchis-Llopis and J.A. Sanchis-Llopis (2015). The determinants of R&D persistence in SMEs. Small Business Economics. 44, 505 - 528.

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).