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Department of Economics UC3M: Juan Rojas


Juan Rojas
Curriculum Vitae

[Education] [Fields Of Interest] [Awards And Scholarships] [Research and Publications] [Articles In Non-academic Economic Press] [Professional Experience] [Other activities] [Languages]

Juan Rojas is Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.

Contact Information

Date of Bith: 18/9/69 (Valencia, Spain)

Education
  • PhD in Economics, European University Institute (Sep. 94-Jan. 99), Department of Economics, Florence, Italy. Thesis Title: Essays on Fiscal Policy , Education and Population Dynamics. Thesis Committee: R. Marimon (EUI) (Advisor), G. Bertola (EUI), J.V. Rios-Rull (U.Pennsylvania) and K. Storesletten (IIES).
  • Licence in Economics, Universidad de Valencia (1993), Valencia, Spain.

Fields Of Interest
  • Dynamic Macroeconomics
  • Fiscal Policy
  • Demographic Economics

Awards And Scholarships

  • Doctoral Scholarship of the European University Institute (Sep. 1997-Sep. 98).
  • Doctoral Scholarship of the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Sep. 1994-Aug. 1996).
  • Research Fellowship by Consejeria de Educacion y Ciencia, Generalidad Valenciana (Sep. 1993-Aug. 1994).

Research and Publications

  • "El Sistema de pensiones y las proyecciones de poblacion: Una evaluación cuantitativa" (1999). Cuadernos Económicos de ICE, n.64.
  • "On the Interaction between Education and Social Security" (2001). (Status: third revision sent to Review of Economic Dynamics).
  • "Life-cycle Earnings, Cohort Size Effects and Social Security: A Quantitative Exploration" (2000). (Status: on first revision in Journal of Public Economics). Working paper EEE 88 in the series Estudios sobre la Economía Española (FEDEA). http://www.fedea.es/hojas/publicado.html
  • "Privatizing Social Security: The role of Imperfect Substitution between Less and More experienced workers" (2002), Working Paper 02-20 Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. (Status: Submitted).
  • "Immigration and the Pension System in Spain" (2002), Working Paper 02-39 Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. (Status: Submitted).
  • "A Note on Restricting the Inflow of Foreign Direct Investment" (2002) (joint with Klaus Desmet), Mimeo, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.
  • "Social Security with Endogenous Borrowing Constraints" (2002) (joint with Javier Diaz-Gimenez and Carlos Urrutia). In progress.
  • "On the Role of Retirement Accounts in Social Security Reform" (2003) (joint with Carlos Urrutia). In progress.
  • "Immigration and Cohort Size Effects" (2003). In progress.

Articles In Non-academic Economic Press

  • "El Futuro de la Pensiones" (coauthor: Juan J. Dolado) in Expansión 22nd June 2000.
  • "A propósito de las pensiones mínimas" in Empresa y Finanzas 17th November 2000.

Professional Experience

  • Sep. 1998-Present: ASSISTANT PROFESSOR (Tenure Track), Department of Economics, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.
  • Sep. 1997-Dec. 1997: VISITING SCHOLAR, Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania.
  • June 1997-July 1997: RESEARCH ASSISTANT for Prof. Ramon Marimon, Department of Economics, European University Institute.
  • Nov. 1996-May 1997: RESEARCH ASSISTANT for Prof. Ramon Marimon, Department of Economics, European University Institute.

Other Activities

  • President of the thesis committee of Virginia Sanchez. Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.
  • Since Feb. 1999: Co-organizer of the Macroeconomics Workshop, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.
  • Member of the Evaluation Committee of the 1999 Young Economists Meeting (Amsterdam).
  • 1999: Member of the Quorum Committee of the thesis "On the political Economy of Public Expenditures" by Ignacio Conde, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.
  • 1996-1997: Editor of the European Economic Association Student Newsletter.
  • 1996: EEA Summer School on "Computational Methods for the Study of Dynamic Economies".
  • 1995: Summer School on "Dynamic Macroeconomics and Economic Growth". Universidade Nova de Lisboa.
  • 1994: Summer School in Game Theory. State University of New York, Stoney Brook.

Languages
  • Spanish (mother tongue), English and Italian.