Department of Economics UC3M: Javier Ruiz-Castillo
 

Javier Ruiz-Castillo Ucelay
Curriculum Vitae


Javier Ruiz-Castillo is Professor at the Department of Economics, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.

Contact Information

Education

  • Ph.D. in Economics: Northwestern University, 1978.
  • M.A. in Economics: University of Essex, 1969.
  • B.A. in Economics: Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 1967.


Fields of Interest

  • Welfare Economics.
  • Public Economics.
  • Microeconomics.

Publications


Papers in Journals with Anonymous Referees
  • “A Comparison of the Scientific Performance of the U.S. and the European Union at the Turn of the 21st Century”, (joint with Pedro Albarrán, Juan A. Crespo and Ignacio Ortuño), acepted on Scientometrics (DOI: 10.1007/s11192-010-0223-7).
  • “Absolute and Relative Poverty. The Case of México, 1992-2004”, El Trimestre Económico , LXXVI : 67-100 (2009)
  • “Economic Research in Spain during the 1990's: A Literature Review”, Spanish Economic Review, 10: 221-249 (2008).
  • "Does the representation of household behavior matter for welfare análisis of tax reform? An introduction”, [joint with O. Bargain, M. Beblo, D. Beninger, R. Blundell, R. Carrasco, M-C. Chiuri, F. Laisney, V. Lechene, N. Moreau, M. Myck, and F. Vermeulen], Review of the Economics of the Household, 4: 99-111, 2006.
  • “Collective models of labor suply with non-convex budget sets and nonparticipation: a calibration approach”, [joint with F. Vermeulen, O. Bargain, M. Beblo, D. Beninger, R. Blundell, R. Carrasco, M-C. Chiuri, F. Laisney, V. Lechene, N. Moreau, and M. Myck], Review of the Economics of the Household, 4: 113-127, 2006.
  • “The Working Familias tax credit and some European tax reforms in a collective setting”, [joint with M. Myck, O. Bargain, M. Beblo, D. Beninger, R. Blundell, R. Carrasco, M-C. Chiuri, F. Laisney, V. Lechene, N. Moreau, and F. Vermeulen], Review of the Economics of the Household, 4: 129-158, 2006.
  • “Evaluating the move to a linear tax system in Germany and other European countries: the choice of representation of household processes does matter”, [joint with D. Beninger, O. Bargain, M. Beblo, R. Bludell, R. Carrasco, M-C. Chiuri, F. Laisney, V. Lechene, N. Moreau, M. Myck, and F. Vermeulen], Review of the Economics of the Household, 4:159-180, 2006.
  • "On the Imputation of Rental Values to Owner-Occupied Housing", [joint with Raquel Arévalo], Journal of the European Economic Association, 4: 830-862, 2006.
  • "The Measurement of Structural and Exchange Mobility", Journal of Economic Inequality, 2: 219-228, (2005).
  • "Additively Decomposable Segregation Indexes. The Case of Gender Segregation by Occupations in Spain", (with Ricardo Mora), The Journal of Economic Inequality, 1: 147-179, (2005).
  • "An Algorithm to Reduce the Occupational Space in Gender Segregation Studies" (joint with Neus Herranz and Ricardo Mora), Journal of Applied Econometrics, 20: 25-37, (2005).
  • "Gender Segregation By Occupations In the Public and the Private Sectors. The Case of Spain In 1977 and 1992", (with Ricardo Mora),Investigaciones Económicas, XXVIII: 339-428, (2004).
  • "The Influence of Demographics and Household Specific Price Indices on Expenditure Based Inequality and Welfare: A comparison of Spain and the United States." (joint with Garner, Thesia & Sastre, Mercedes), Southern Journal of Economics, 70: 22-48, (2003).
  • "To What Extent Do Fiscal Regimes Equalize Opportunities for Income Acquisition Among Citizens?." [with J. Roemer and others], Journal of Public Economics, 87:539-565, (2003).
  • "The Plutocratic GAP in the CPI: Evidence from Spain." (joint with Izquierdo, Mario and Ley, Eduardo) IMF Staff Papers, 50: 136-155, (2003).
  • "The Decisions by Spanish Youth." (joint with Martínez, Maite), Journal of Population Economics, 15: 305-330, (2002). Reprinted in K. Zimmermann y M. Volger (eds.), Family, Household and Work, Berlin: Springer-Verlag, (2003).
  • "Demographic Trends and Living Standards. The Case of Spain During the 1980s", (joint with Coral del Río), Revista de Economía Aplicada , X: 5-24, (2002).
  • "The Laspeyres Bias in the Spanish Consumer Price Index"" , (joint with Eduardo Ley and Mario Izquierdo), Applied Economics , 34: 2267-76, (2002).
  • "Distributive Aspects of the Quality Change Bias in the CPI." (joint with Izquierdo, Mario and Ley, Eduardo) Economics Letters, 76:1, 137-144, (2002).
  • "The Measurement of Growth under Embodied Technical Change", [with J. Durán y O. Licandro], Recherches Economiques de Louvain, 68: 7-19, (2002).
  • "Intermediate Inequality and Welfare: The Case of Spain, 1980-81 to 1990-91" (joint with Del Río, Coral) Review of Income and Wealth, series 47: 221-238, June 2001.
  • "Distributive Implications of Household Member Level Income Aggregation" (joint with Mercedes Sastre), forthcoming in Economics of Transition, 9: 487-514, 2001.
  • "Accounting for the Decline in Spanish Household Expenditures Inequality During the 1980s." (joint with Río, del) Spanish Economic Review, 3: 151-175, 2001.
  • "TIPS for Poverty. The Case of Spain, 1980-81 to 1990-91." (joint with Río, Del) Investigaciones Económicas, XXV: 63-92 , January 2001.
  • "Intermediate Inequality and Welfare." (joint with Del Río, del) Social Choice and Welfare 17(2): 223-239, March 2000.
  • "A Simplified Model for Social Welfare Analysis. An Application to Spain, 1973-74 to 1980-81." Review of Income and Wealth 44(1): 123-141, March 1998.
  • "Inflation and Inequality Bias in the Presence of Bulk Purchases for Food and Drinks." (joint with Peña, Daniel) Journal of Business and Economic Statistics 16: 292-303, July 1998.
  • "The Anatomy of Money and Real Income Inequality in Spain, 1973-74 to 1980-81." Journal of Income Distribution 4: 265-281, 1995.
  • "Income Distribution and Social Welfare: A Review Essay." Investigaciones Económicas XIX: 3-34, January 1995.
  • "Características geográficas y socioeconómicas en la evolución del nivel de vida en España." Hacienda Pública Española 133: 145-169, February 1995.
  • "Searching by Questionnaire for the Meaning of Income Inequality." (joint with Ballano, Carlos) Revista Española de Economía 10(2): 233-259, 1993.
  • "The influence of household composition on household expenditure patterns. Theory and Spanish evidence." (joint with Deaton, Angus and Thomas, Duncan) Journal of Political Economy 97(1): 179-200, February 1989.
  • "Potential Welfare and the Sum of Individual Compensating or Equivalent Variations." Journal iof Economic Theory 41: 34-53, February 1987.
  • "Distributional Aspects of Public Rental Housing and Rent Control Policies in Spain." (joint with Peña, Daniel) Journal of Urban Economics 15: 350-370, February 1984.
  • "Robust Methods of Building Regression Models. An Application to the Housing Sector." (joint with Peña, Daniel) Journal of Business and Economic Statistics 2: 10-20, January 1984.
  • "Residential Land Use. The Continous Case." Economic Letters 8: 7-12, January 1981.


Books

  • Una alternativa fiscal para España , (joint with A. Castells, M. Cruz, S. Díaz de Sarralde, A. Gago, J.A. Garde, J. A. Gimeno, J. A. Herce, R. Iturriaga, Z. Jiménez-Ridruejo, J. López, J. Loscos, B. Medel, J. Romero, J. Ruiz-Huerta, J. Segura, J. Zornoza), Fundación Alternativas, Exlibris Ediciones, Madrid 2002.
  • La medición de la inflación en España (joint with Izquierdo, Mario and Ley, Eduardo) (Colección de Estudios e Informes 17) Barcelona: "la Caixa", July 1999,
  • La medición de la pobreza y de la desigualdad en España, 1980-81 (Estudios Económicos 42) Madrid: Banco de España, May 1987,


Collaborations in Collective Works

  • "The invariance properties of the mutual information index of multigroup segregation", (con Ricardo Mora), acepted in Y. Flückiger, S. Reardon, and J. Silber (eds.), Research on Economic Inequality. New Frontiers In the Field of Segregation Measurement and Analysis , Jay Press (2008).
  • "En defensa de un impuesto progresivo sobre el consumo”, in J. Perez, C. Sebastián y P. Tedde (eds.), Estudios en homenaje a Luis Ángel Rojo. Volumen I, Políticas, mercados e instituciones económicas, 163-198 (2004).
  • "The Measurement of Inequality of Opportunities", en Bishop, J. and Y. Amiel (eds.), Research in Economic Inequality, 9: 1-34 (2003).
  • "La comparación de distribuciones de renta en un contexto dinámico."In Maravall, J.Maria (eds.): Tercer simposio sobre igualdad y distribución de la renta y la riqueza I . Madrid: Fundación Argentaria, February 1999.
  • "El enfoque de la dominancia en el análisis de la pobreza." (joint with Río, del) In Maravall, J.Maria (eds.): Tercer simposio sobre igualdad y distribución de la renta y la riqueza I . Madrid: Fundación Argentaria, February 1999.
  • "Desigualdad y bienestar en España en términos reales: 1973-74, 1980-81 y 1990-91." (joint with Sastre, Mercedes) In Maravall, J.Maria (eds.): Tercer simposio sobre igualdad y distribución de la renta y la riqueza (Igualdad I) . Madrid: Fundación Argentaria, February 1999.
  • "A Social Welfare Model for the Evaluation of the Spanish Income Tax System." (joint with Vargas, Carmen) In Slotje, D. and Zandvakili, S. (eds.): Research on Economic Inequality 7 . JAI Press Inc, 1997.
  • "Ordenaciones de bienestar e inferencia estadística. El caso de las EPF de 1980-81 y 1990-91." (joint with Río, del) In La desigualdad de recursos. Segundo simposio sobre la distribución de la renta y la riqueza (Igualdad VI) . Madrid: Fundación Argentaria, June 1996.
  • "La situación relativa de los hogares retirados y otros inactivos desde 1973-74 a 1980-81."In Las actividades económicas de los mayores. Madrid: SECOT, February 1995.
  • "La distribución del gasto en España de 1973-74 a 1980-81."In Primer Simposio sobre la distribución de la renta y la riqueza II . Madrid: Fundación Argentaria, February 1993.
  • "El sistema de financiación autonómica: críticas y alternativas."In Cinco estudios sobre la financiación autonómica. Instituto de Estudios Fiscales, February 1988.


Papers in Other Journals

  • "Problemas conceptuales en la medición de la desigualdad." Hacienda Pública Española 101: 17-31, February 1986.
  • "Los determinantes del alquiler y los beneficios de la intervención del Estado." Investigaciones Ecvonómicas 18: 121-136, May 1982.
  • "El uso residencial de la tierra y la teoría del equilibrio general." Investigaciones Económicas 14: 17-43, January 1981.


Working Papers