Curriculum Vitae 

I) Professional experience

 

a) Research positions

Current position: Assistant Professor, Department of Quantitative Methods for Economics and Business, Universidad de Granada, Spain.

2008 - 2009: Post-doc. Department of Economics, Universidad de Granada, Spain.

2007 - 2008: Visiting Professor, Department of Economics, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain.

1999 - 2002: Research Assistant, Department of Economics, Universidad de la República, Uruguay.

 

b) Teaching experience

2009 - 2010: “Quantitative Techniques I”, “Applied Statistics”, “Econometrics I”, Universidad de Granada.

2008 - 2009: “Macroeconomics III”, “Economic Analysis of Collective Relations”, Universidad de Granada.

2007 - 2008: “Microeconomics II”, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.

2006 - 2007: Teaching Assistant for “Econometrics I”, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB).

2005 - 2006: Teaching Assistant for “Statistics I” and “Advanced Microeconomics II”, UAB.

2004 - 2005: Teaching Assistant for “Advanced Microeconomics II”, UAB.

2003 - 2004: Teaching Assistant for “Microeconomics I” and “Microeconomics II”, UAB.

2002 - 2003: Teaching Assistant for “Microeconomics II”, UAB.

2002: Teaching Assistant for “Mathematics applied to Economics”, Graduate course, Department of Economics, Universidad de la República (UdelaR), Uruguay.

1994 - 2001: Teaching Assistant for “Statistics II”, Faculty of Economic Sciences, UdelaR, Uruguay.

 

c) Visiting positions

27/April - 8/May 2009: Department of Economics, UdelaR, Montevideo, Uruguay.

April - August 2008:  Department of Public Finance, University of Innsbruck, Austria.

 

d) Other experience

1993 - 2002: Assistant Economist (1993-2001) and Economist (2001-2002) in Market Sector, UTE -the electricity company-. Job description: study the demand of electricity and tariff topics.

 

II) Education

 

2007: Ph.D. in Economics, International Doctorate in Economic Analysis (IDEA), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB). Advisor: Prof. Jordi Brandts. Title of the thesis: “Essays on Experimental Economics”.

2004 : M.Phil in Economics, IDEA, UAB, Spain. Advisor: Prof. Jordi Brandts.

2001: Certificate of Graduate Studies in Economics, UdelaR, Uruguay.

2000:  BA in Economics. UdelaR, Uruguay.

 

III) Research works

 

a) Publications

“On punishment and well-being”.  Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 72(3) pp, 823-834. 2009. Joint with J. Brandts.

“Wage dispersion and workers` effort”, Economics Bulletin, Vol. 29 no.2 pp. 796-802. 2009.

“Recent tendencies of the female participation in the Uruguayan labor market, 1986-2000. Papeles de Población, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México, Nº 32. 2002.  Joint with X. García de Soria, M. Rossi and M. Taboada.

 

b) Working papers

“The dos and dont’s of leadership in sequential public goods experiments”, Innsbruck Research Papers in Economics 25, 2008. University of Innsbruck. Joint with M. Sutter.

“An experiment on corruption and gender”.  ThE papers 8, 2008. Department of Economics, University of Granada.

“Managerial compensation in a two level gift exchange experiment”. Working Paper 23/07, Department of Economics, Faculty of Social Sciences (FCS), Udelar, Uruguay, 2007. Joint with N. Hesse. (Submitted)

“Evolution of the wage differential between public and private sector in Uruguay”. Working Paper 02/02, Department of Economics, FCS, Udelar, Uruguay, 2002. Joint with M. Rossi.

 “Female labor supply”. Working Paper 18/01, Department of Economics, FCS, Udelar, Uruguay, 2001. Joint with X. García de Soria and M. Taboada.

“Wage discrimination in Uruguay (1991-1997)”. Working Paper 07/00, Department of Economics, FCS, Udelar, Uruguay, 2000.  Joint with M. Rossi.

 

c) Book chapter

Experimentos en clase: como la teoría económica se transforma en juego. Tema: Oferta y Demanda, en “I Jornadas de docencia en Economía” (ISBN 849268026-1).

 

d) Other research works

“Punishment and happiness”, Master Thesis, supervised by J. Brandts. UAB, 2004.

“Female labor supply. An empirical study for Uruguay- 1997”. Bachelor thesis, supervised by M. Bucheli. Faculty of Economic Sciences, Udelar, Uruguay, 2000. Joint with X. García de Soria and M. Taboada.

 

e) Research in progress

"Electoral Rules and Voter Turnout: An Experimental Analysis". Joint with S. Ergun.

“Physiological responses and emotions”. Joint with A.Acosta, P.Brañas, O.Oyediran, and C.Pérez.

 

IV) Grants

a) Scholarships

2003-2007 : Predoctoral fellowship (FPI), awarded by the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science.

2003: Predoctoral fellowship (beca propia), awarded by the UAB, Spain.

2002-2003: Predoctoral fellowship, awarded by the International Graduate School of Catalonia,  Generalitat de Catalunya, Spain.

 

b) Research grants

“Discriminación de género, raza y aspectos físicos”, Excelencia Junta Andalucía (P07.SEJ.02547). 2007-2011. Director: Pablo Brañas Garza.

“Preferencias Sociales: Altruismo, Bienes Comunes, Aversión Étnica y Redes Sociales”, CICYT (SEJ 2007-62081/ECON). 2007-2010. Director: Pablo Brañas Garza.

“GLOBE: Granada Lab of Experimental and Behavioral Economics”, Grupos de Investigación de la Junta de Andalucía (SEJ023, 2008-2009). Director: Pablo Brañas Garza

 

V) Conferences and seminars

a) Organization of conference

14-15 December 2008: Alhambra Experimental Workshop, Granada, Spain.

 

b) Conference presentations

October 2009, ASSET Annual Meeting 2009, Istanbul, Turkey.

June 2009, 10^th Annual Meeting of the Association for Public Economic Theory, Galway, Ireland.

May 2009, Annual Meeting of the Austrian Economic Association, Linz, Austria.

April 2009, Symposium on teaching Economics, Granada, Spain.

April 2009, V International Meeting on Experimental and Behavioral Economics (IMEBE), Granada, Spain.

December 2008, XXXIII Symposium of Economic Analysis, Zaragoza, Spain.

May 2008, Annual Meeting of the Austrian Economic Association, Vienna, Austria.

December 2007, XXXII Symposium of Economic Analysis, Granada, Spain.

August 2007, XXII Meeting of Economics, Central Bank of Uruguay, Montevideo, Uruguay.

June 2007, Annual World Meeting of ESA. Libera Universita degli Studi Sociali (LUISS), Rome, Italy.

May 2007, Annual Meeting of the Austrian Economic Association, Klagenfurt, Austria.

March 2007, III International Meeting on Experimental and Behavioral Economics (IMEBE), Malaga, Spain. Poster presentation.

January 2007, II Ph.D. Presentation Meeting, London, UK.

December 2006, XXXI Symposium of Economic Analysis, Oviedo, Spain.

November 2006, ASSET Annual Meeting 2006, Lisbon, Portugal.

September 2006, 2006 European Meeting of ESA. University of Nottingham, UK.

January 2006, ENTER Jamboree, Stockholm, Sweden.

December 2005, II IMEBE, Valencia, Spain. Poster presentation.

November 2001, Meeting of Economics and Employment in Uruguay organized by Udelar, Montevideo, Uruguay.

November 2000, XV Meeting of Economics of the Central Bank of Uruguay, Montevideo, Uruguay.

 

c) Seminar presentations

May 2008, Economic Seminar, Department of Public Finances, University of Innsbruck, Austria.

August 2007, Workshop at the Department of Economics, FCS, UdelaR, Uruguay.

March 2007, Max Plank Institute, Jena, Germany.

February 2007, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.

October 2006, Microeconomics Workshop at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain.

August 2006, Workshop at the Department of Economics, FCS, UdelaR, Uruguay.

June 2006, Workshop at the Department of Economics, University of Vigo, Spain.

April 2006, Microeconomics Workshop at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain.

August 2005, Workshop at the Department of Economics, FCS, UdelaR, Uruguay.

June 2005, Microeconomics Workshop at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain.

 

d) Summer schools

July 2007: Workshop on teaching Economics with experiments, Bratislava, Slovakia (Participant)

June 2007 : Spring School: XVIth Aix-Marseille Doctoral Spring School in Economics, Theme: “Recent Advances in Labor Economics”, Aix-en-Provence, France (Presenter)

June 2005: Mannheim Empirical Research Summer School, 07/2005. Mannheim, Germany (Presenter)

 

VI) Other relevant information

a) Referee for: Journal of Economic Psychology.

b) Language: Spanish (native), English (fluent), and German (beginner).

c) Computer skills: Office, SPSS, Stata, z-Tree.