Dr. Dolores Añón Higón is Full Professor at the Faculty of Economics and Associate Researcher of the Social and Economic Behaviour Institute (ERI-CES) at the Universitat de València (UV). Before joining the UV in 2008, she worked at Aston University, and Warwick University. Dolores is an applied economist whose main research interest is to understand the drivers and impediments of productivity enhancement, with a particular focus on innovation, digitization, and internationalization strategies. She has published in Industrial and Corporate Change, Information & Management, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Research Policy, Small Business Economics, among others. Her research has been funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Research (currently as Principal Investigator); the UK Engineering and Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC), the European Commission, the British Academy, the NESTA Foundation, and various government agencies including UKTI, and DTI, as well as local governments (Generalitat Valenciana, Manchester Independent Economic Review) and private sector (BBVA Foundation).

Five selected/recent publications:

1. Añón Higón, D., Bonvin, D. (2023). Digitalization and trade participation of SMEs. Small Business Economics, In press.
2. Añón Higón, D. (2023). The persistence and cross-persistence of R&D outsourcing: onshore and offshore strategies, Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 32:8, 1087-1113.
3. Añón Higón, D., Bonvin, D. (2022). Information and communication technologies and firms’ export performance, Industrial and Corporate Change, 31:4, 955–979
4. Añón Higón, D., J. Gómez, P. Vargas (2017). Complementarities in innovation strategy: do intangibles play a role in enhancing firm performance? Industrial and Corporate Change, 26:5, 2017, 865-886.
5. Añón Higón, D. (2016). In-house versus external basic research and first-to-market innovations. Research Policy, 45(4), 816-829.

Web page: https://www.uv.es/madoahi/

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. María Feo Valero is Associate Professor at the Department of Applied Economics II (Estructura Econòmica), University of Valencia. She holds a Ph.D. in Economics by the University of Valencia. Most of her professional activity has focused on research in the area of transport economics: initially at the Valenciaport Foundation as R&D project manager (2004-2012) and then as assistant professor at the University Jaume I of Castellón (2012-2016) and, since 2016, as associate professor at the University of Valencia and Associate Researcher of the Institute of International Economics (IEI). Within the area of transport economics her work has focused on the modelling of the freight transport demand and the analysis of its determinants through advanced discrete choice models and stated preference techniques. She has collaborated in competitive national research projects and international projects and her work has been published in international journals of the area.

Five selected/recent publications:

1. ARTICLE: Feo-Valero, M., Martínez-Moya, J. 2022. Shippers vs. freight forwarders: Do they differ in their port choice decisions? Evidence from the Spanish ceramic tile industry. Research in Transportation Economics 95.
2. ARTICLE: Vega, A., Feo-Valero, M., Espino, R. 2021. Understanding maritime transport route choice among Irish exporters: A latent class approach. Research in Transportation Economics 90.
3. ARTICLE: Martínez-Moya, J., Feo-Valero, M. 2020. Measuring foreland container port connectivity disaggregated by destination markets: An index for Short Sea Shipping services in Spanish ports. Journal of Transport Geography 89.
4. ARTICLE: Vega, A., Feo-Valero, M., Espino, R. 2018. The potential impact of Brexit on Ireland’s demand for shipping services to continental Europe. Transport Policy 71, 1-13.
5. BOOK CHAPTER: Feo-Valero, M., Vega, A., Vázquez-Paja, B. 2021. The Value of Time in Freight Transport. In: Vickerman, Roger (eds.) International Encyclopedia of Transportation. vol. 3, pp. 236-241. UK: Elsevier Ltd.

Soy licenciado y doctor en Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales por la Universitat de València (Premio Extraordinario en ambos casos) y Master of Science in Economics por University College London. He realizado estancias de investigación en Fedea, en el Real Colegio Complutense en la Universidad de Harvard, en el Banco Inter-Americano de Desarrollo, en el Banco Mundial y en diversas universidades españolas. Soy autor de una veintena de capítulos de libro y más de 50 artículos publicados en revistas de reconocido prestigio como European Economic Review, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Review of World Economics, Review of International Economics, The World Economy o Oxford Economic Papers, entre otras. He sido miembro electo de la junta directiva y tesorero de la Asociación Española de Economía y Finanzas Internacionales (2005-2011), editor asociado de la Revista de Economía Aplicada (2006-2016), coordinador del Grado en Economía (2013-2015), director del Departamento de Estructura Económica de la Universitat de València (2015-2021) y coordinador del Doble Grado en Derecho y Economía (desde 2022). Por lo que respecta a la docencia, he participado en múltiples manuales y proyectos de innovación docente y he recibido más de una docena de reconocimientos y premios a mi labor docente.

Publicaciones representativas:

1. Esteve-Pérez, J., Gil-Pareja, S., Llorca-Vivero, R. y Paniagua, J. (2023): “Has the euro paid off? A study of the trade-induced welfare effects of the EMU”, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, forthcomming.
2. Esteve-Pérez, S., Gil-Pareja, S. y Llorca-Vivero, R. (2020): "Does the GATT/WTO promote trade? After all, Rose was right", Review of World Economics, 156 (2), 377-405.
3. Gil-Pareja, S., Llorca-Vivero, R. y Martínez-Serrano, J. A. (2014): “Do nonreciprocal preferential trade agreements increase beneficiaries’ exports?”, Journal of Development Economics, 107, págs. 291-304.
4. Gil-Pareja, S., Llorca-Vivero, R. y Martínez-Serrano, J. A. (2008): “Trade effects of monetary agreements: Evidence for OECD countries”, European Economic Review, 52, págs. 733-755.
5. Gil-Pareja, S. (2003): “Pricing to Market Behaviour in European Car Markets”, European Economic Review, 47, págs. 945-962. (Top 10 most requested articles at EER, 2003).

Dr. Rafael Llorca Vivero earned a Bachelor degree in Economics (with distintcion) at the Universitat de València (Valencia, Spain), a Master Science in Economics (with distinction) at University College London and a PhD at the University of Valencia. He is now Professor of Applied Economics in the Economic Structure Department of the Universitat de València. His main research area of interest is in the ambit of International Trade. He has published in journals such as European Economic Review, Journal of Development Economics, Review of World Economics, Review of International Economics, The World Economy or Oxford Economic Papers, among others.

Five selected/recent publications:

1. (2015) Regional export promotion offices and trade margins, S Gil-Pareja, R Llorca-Vivero, JA Martínez-Serrano, F Requena-Silvente, Review of World Economics 151 (1), 145-167.
2. (2014) Do nonreciprocal preferential trade agreements increase beneficiaries' exports?, S Gil-Pareja, R Llorca-Vivero, JA Martínez-Serrano, Journal of Development Economics 107, 291-304.
3. (2008) Terrorism and international tourism: New evidence, R Llorca‐Vivero, Defence and Peace Economics 19 (2), 169-188.
4. (2008) Trade effects of monetary agreements: evidence for OECD countries, S Gil-Pareja, R Llorca-Vivero, JA Martínez-Serrano, European Economic Review 52 (4), 733-755.
5. (2007) The effect of EMU on tourism, S Gil‐Pareja, R Llorca‐Vivero, JA Martínez‐Serrano, Review of International Economics 15 (2), 302-312.

Dr. Rafael Moner Colonques earned a Bachelor degree in Economics at the Universitat de València (Valencia, Spain), a Master of Arts in Industrial Economics with distinction at the Université Catholique de Louvain (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium) and a Ph.D. in Quantitative Economics under the European Doctoral Programme at the Université Catholique de Louvain. He is Professor of Economics in the Economic Analysis Department at the Universitat de València. His main research areas of interest include industrial economics, economics of innovation, transportation economics, international oligopolies and competition policy. His publication record includes more than thirty papers in specialist journals such as Applied Economics, Economics of Innovation and New Technology, Journal of Economics, Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, Journal of International Economics, Journal of Transport Economics and Policy, Regional Science and Urban Economics, Review of Industrial Organization, 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 6 PhD dissertations and 15 Master Thesis. He has participated in more than eighty international and Spanish conferences. He has participated in twenty five research projects. He is the research head of the research project “Transport, energy and R&D policies under imperfect competition and externalities” (ECO2016-77589-R) financed by the Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (Madrid, Spain) to be completed in December 2019.

Five selected/recent publications:

1. Alvarez SanJaime, O., P. Cantos Sánchez, R. Moner-Colonques and J.J. Sempere-Monerris, “A three-stage competition game in an air transport network under asymmetric valuation of flight frequencies”, Economics of Transportation, 21, 100141, (2020).
2. Alvarez SanJaime, O., P. Cantos Sánchez, R. Moner-Colonques and J.J. Sempere-Monerris, “Rail access charges and internal competition in High Speed Trains”, Transport Policy, 49, 184-195, (2016).
3. Mendi, P., R. Moner-Colonques and J.J. Sempere-Monerris, “Optimal know-how transfers in licensing contracts”, Journal of Economics, 118(2), 121-139, (2016).
4. Moner-Colonques, R., J.J. Sempere-Monerris and A. Urbano, “Strategic Delegation with Multiproduct Firms”, Journal of Economics and Management Strategy. 13,405-427 (2004).
5. Moner-Colonques, R. “Cost Uncertainty and Trade Liberalization in International Oligopoly”. Journal of International Economics 45, 369-376. (1998).

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. 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. Cecilio Tamarit Escalona is currently Professor of Economics at the University of Valencia. He holds an endowed "ad personam" Jean Monnet Chair in European Economic Integration and is a member of the INTECO joint research unit (https://www.inteco.uji.es). He was previously Senior Fellow at the Wharton School (University of Pennsylvania), Senior Advisor at the Spanish Prime Minister's Office, Visiting Fellow (and invited professor) at the University of Nottingham, University of Goettingen, Harvard University and Robert Schuman Scholar at the Research Department of the European Parliament. His main lines of research are Monetary and Fiscal Integration and International Trade and Macroeconometrics. He has published extensively in academic journals as Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Banking and Finance, Economic Inquiry, Journal of Comparative Economics, Economics Letters, Journal of Macroeconomics or Economic Modelling.

Five selected/recent publications:

1.    Camarero, M., J. Sapena and C. Tamarit (2019): “Modelling Time-Varying parameters in panel data state-space frameworks: An application to the Feldstein-Horioka Puzzle", Computational Economics, forthcoming. Impacto JCR Economía (2017): 1.038. Q2.
2.    Camarero, M., Gómez, E. y C. Tamarit (2014) “Is the ‘euro effect´ on trade so small after all? New evidence using gravity equations with panel cointegration techniques", Economics Letters, 124: 140-142. Impacto (2013): 0.451. Q3.
3.    Camarero, M., J.L. Carrion-i-Silvestre y C. Tamarit (2013): “Global imbalances and the Intertemporal External Budget Constraint: A multicointegration approach”, Journal of Banking and Finance, 37:5357-5372. Impacto (2013): 1.36. Q1 (Business); Q2 (Economics).
4.    Esteve, V. and C. Tamarit (2012): “Threshold cointegration and nonlinear adjustment between CO2 and income: The Environmental Kuznets Curve in Spain, 1857–2007”, Energy Economics, 34, 2148-2156. Impacto (2013): 2.58. Q1 Economics.
5.    Camarero, M., R.G. Flôres y C. Tamarit (2006): “Monetary Unions and productivity differences in Mercosur countries”, Journal of Policy Modelling, 28, 53-66. Impact (2013): 1.042. Q2. Clave: A.