Curriculum Vitae

 

[Current Position] [Research Interests] [Education] [Research Experience] [Awards]

[Teaching] [Publications] [Working Papers] [Work in Progress] [Seminars] [Conferences] [Personal Info]

 

CURRENT APPOINTMENTS

 

2008- present: Associate Professor, Economics Department, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid 

 

2005- present: Research Fellow, “Programa Ramón y Cajal”

 

2004- present: Research Affiliate, Centre for Economic Policy Research

 

ACADEMIC AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

 

2002-2008

 

 

Assistant Professor, Economics Department, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

2003-2004

Visiting Research Associate, University of California Energy Institute, Berkeley

 

2001-2002

 

Academic Visitor, Nuffield College, Oxford University

 

2001-2002

 

Research Fellow, IDEI, University of Toulouse

 

2001

 

Visiting Ph.D. student, Nuffield College, Oxford University

 

2000

Visiting Ph.D. student IDEI, University of Toulouse

 

1998-2001

 

Research assistant to Prof. Massimo Motta, European University Institute, Florence

 

   RESEARCH INTERESTS

 

·       Industrial Economics (JEL L00)

·       Oligopoly and other forms of market imperfection (JEL D43, L13)

·       Auctions (JEL D44)

·       Competition Policy (JEL K21), Regulation (JEL L43, L51)

·       Regulation of utilities - electric and other (JEL L95)

·       Environnemental Management (JEL Q28, Q38)

 

   EDUCATION

 

2001-2002

Post-doctoral studies, IDEI, University of Toulouse

 

2001

Ph.D., Economics, European University Institute, Florence

Ph.D. Thesis' title: “Market Power in Electricity Markets”

Supervisor: Massimo Motta

 

1998

M.A., Economics, European University Institute, Florence

 

1997

B.A., Economics, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

 

PUBLICATIONS (in refereed journals)

 

"How to allocate forward contracts: the case of electricity auctions" with M. Ángeles de Frutos (See article) European Economic Review, forthcoming.

 

"Market Design and Investment Incentives" with Nils-Henrik von der Fehr and M. Ángeles de Frutos (See article) Economic Journal, Volume 121, December 2011, pp. 1340–1360.

 

"Endogenous Capacities and Price Competition: the Role of Uncertainty" with M. Ángeles de Frutos (See article) International Journal of Industrial Organization, Volume 29(4), July 2011, pp. 399-411.

 

"Dynamic Auctions for On-line Services" with Enrique Campos and Alfredo García. IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics, Volume 37 (6), 2007, pp. 878-886.

  

"Security of Supply and Short-Run Capacity Markets for Electricity", with Anna Creti. Energy Economics, Volume 29, Issue 2, March 2007, pp. 259-276. (Abstract and pdf)

 

"Collusion with Capacity Constraints over the Business Cycle", (Abstract and pdf), International Journal of Industrial Organization, Volume 24, Issue 1, January 2006, pp. 69-81.

 

"Price Wars and Collusion in the Spanish Electricity Market", with Juan Toro. International Journal of Industrial Organization, Volume 23, Issues 3-4 , April 2005, pp. 155-181. (Abstract and pdf).

 

"Designing Electricity Auctions", with Nils-Henrik von der Fehr (University of Oslo) and David Harbord (Market Analysis) Rand Journal of Economics, Vol. 37 (1), pp. 23-346, Spring 2006 (Abstract and pdf).

 

"The Spanish Electricity Market: Plus ca change…" with Claude Crampes (IDEI, University of Toulouse), The Energy Journal, Volume 26, May 2005.

 

"Tacit Collusion in Repeated Auctions: Uniform versus Discriminatory auctions", Journal of Industrial Economics, Vol. L1, No. 3 (September), pp. 271-293, 2003. (Abstract and pdf)

 

"Modelling Electricity Auctions", with Nils-Henrik von der Fehr and David Harbord, Electricity Journal, Vol. 15, No. 7, pp. 72-81, 2002. (Abstract and pdf)

 

PUBLICATIONS (in Spanish)

 

“Un Diseño de Mercado para el Sector Eléctrico Español”, with J. Fabra Utray, Papeles de Economía. (pdf)

 

“Competencia y Poder de Mercado en los Mercados Eléctricos”, with J. Fabra Utray. Cuadernos Económicos del ICE 79, pp. 17-43.

 

"El Funcionamiento del Mercado Eléctrico Español bajo la Ley del Sector Eléctrico". Chapter 10 in "Del Monopolio al Mercado. La Comisión Nacional de la Energía: diez años en perspectiva". (pdf) Editorial THOMSON: CIVITAS.

 

"La Electricidad: Mercados, Inversiones y Garantía de Suministro", Economía Industrial, 364, September 2007, 63-75. (pdf)

 

  WORKING PAPERS

 

"The Fall in British Electricity Prices: Market Rules, Market Structure or Both?" with Juan Toro.

(Abstract and pdf)

 

AWARDS, HONORS AND GRANTS

 

 

2010-2013

 

 

2007-2009

Grant awarded by the Ministry of Education. Title of the Project “Strategic Behaviour and Institutions” IP: Antonio Cabrales

 

Research Funding, Fundación Ramón Areces

Project Title: “Competition and Contracts in Oligopoly Models” (joint with María Ángeles de Frutos)

 

2006-2010

Grant awarded by the Ministry of Education and Science. Title of the Project “Dynamic Models, Regimes and Institutions. Applications to firm behaviour, labour market and growth theory” IP: César Alonso Borrego

 

2005-2007

Additional Funding within Ramón y Cajal Programme. Title of the Project “The Impact of the Kyoto Agreement on the Performance of Electricity Markets”

 

2005

Research Funding, Fundación BBVA

Project Title: "Innovation and Merger Waves: an application to the pharmaceutical sector" (joint with M.A. de Frutos, C. Ornaghi and G. Siotis)

 

2004-2005

Research Funding, Fundación Ramón Areces

Project Title: “Strategic Behaviour and Risk Managament in Electricity Markets” (joint with M. Tapia, J. Toro and P. Villaplana)

 

2003-2007

Grant awarded by the Ministry of Science and Technology. Title of the Project “Dynamic Models, Regimes and Institutions. Applications to the Job Market and Industrial Organization” (BEC2003-03943)

 

2001

Marie Curie Research Fellowship under the CEPR Network "Financial Markets, Product Markets, and the Pace of Innovation in Europe"

 

2001

European Commission Young Economist Prize, European Association of Research in Industrial Economics, Dublin

 

2001

Research Funding, Programa de Investigaciones Económicas, Fundación Empresa Pública, Madrid

 

1997

Ph.D. funding, Programa Salvador de Madariaga, Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores

 

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEES AND REFEREE SERVICES

 

Scientific Committees

 

·       Chair of the Scientific Committee and Local organizer of 2010 Jornadas de Economía Industrial, Madrid

 

·       2009 European Economic Association Meeting, Barcelona

 

·       2009 Workshop on 'Industrial Organization: Theory, Empirics and Experiments', Lecce, Italy

 

·       2008 Simposio de Análisis Económico, Zaragoza, December 2008

 

·       2008 ASSET Meeting, Florence

 

·       IDEI Conference on “The Economics of Energy Markets”, Toulouse, June 2008

 

·       2008 EARIE Conference, Toulouse, September

 

·       EEM 08 – 5th International Conference on the European Electricity Market, Lisbon, May 2008

 

·       2007 EARIE Conference, Valencia, September 2007

 

·       2007 Simposio de Análisis Económico, Granada, December 2007

 

·       IDEI Conference on “The Economics of Energy Markets”, Toulouse, January 2007

 

·       2006 Simposio de Análisis Económico, Oviedo, December 2006

 

·       CEPR-IDEI Conference on “The Economics of Electricity Markets”, Toulouse, June 2004

 

·       2005 EARIE Conference, Porto, September 2005

 

Referee for

·       American Economic Review

·       B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy

·       Bruegel Review

·       Canadian Journal of Economics

·       Economic Theory

·       Energy Economics

·       Energy Journal

·       European Economic Review

·       Information and Economic Policy

·       Internacional Economic Review

·       International Journal of Industrial Organization

·       International Journal of Game Theory

·       Investigaciones Económicas

·       Journal of Industrial Economics

·       Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control

·       Journal of Economics and Management Strategy

·       Journal of the European Economic Association

·       Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade

·       Management Science

·       Mathematics Operations Research

·       Operations Research

·       Rand Journal of Economics

·       Revista de Economía Aplicada

·       Review of Economic Design

·       Resource and Energy Economics

·       Spanish Economic Review

·       IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics 

 

 

  INVITED SEMINARS

 

June 2012

University of Oslo

 

April 2012

Paris School of Economics

 

January 2010

Miaow Seminars, Madrid

 

November 2009

Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Seville

 

November 2009

IFN, Stockholm

 

November 2009

Helsinki School of Economics

 

May 2009

Sabanci University, Istanbul

 

March 2009

Universidad Complutense de Madrid

 

January 2009

Round table on “Advanced Topics in Energy Economics”, Congreso Asociación Española de la Economía Energética, Sevilla

 

Sept. 2008

Round Table on Tacit Collusion, ACE SPANISH MEETING 2008, Fundación Rafael del Pino, Madrid

 

June 2008

 

IO Workshop, IESE, Barcelona

Oct. 2007

Round Table on Energy Regulation, ACE SPANISH MEETING 2007, Fundación Rafael del Pino, Madrid

 

Oct. 2006

Universidad Complutense de Madrid

 

 

May 2005

Round Table on Energy Liberalization, EUI, Florence

 

December 2004

 

WZB, Berlin, Germany

December 2004

 

Departamento de Fundamentos del Análisis Económico, Universidad de Alicante

 

December 2004

 

European University Institute, Florence, Italy

Oct. 2004

Forum on Antitrust and Regulation, Lecce, Italy

 

May 2004

Universidad de Vigo

 

April 2004

Stockholm School of Economics

 

April 2004

Universidad Central de Barcelona

 

September 2003

Department of Economics, University of California at Berkeley

 

August 2003

University of California Energy Institute, Berkeley, USA

 

March 2003

University of Virginia, USA

 

May 2002

Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain

 

March 2002

Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain

 

January 2001

Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, Spain

 

January 2001

Università degli Studi di Bologna, Italy

 

February 2001

Warwick University, UK

 

March 2000

Nuffield College, Oxford University, UK

 

CONFERENCES

 

May 2009

CEPR Conference on Applied IO, Manheim, Germany

 

Sept. 2008

 

EARIE Conference, Toulouse

June 2008

 

IDEI-TSE Conference on Energy Markets

June 2007

University of California Energy Institute Camp, Berkeley, California

 

May 2007

CEPR Conference on Applied IO, Tarragona, Spain

 

January 2007

CEPR-IDEI Conference on the Economics of Energy Markets, Toulouse

 

Sept. 2006

Jornadas de Economía Industrial, IESE, Barcelona

 

June 2006

 

University of California Energy Institute Camp, Berkeley, California

 

July 2005

University of California Energy Institute Camp, Berkeley, California

 

June 2005

 

CEPR-IDEI Conference on the Economics of Electricity Markets, Toulouse

Nov. 2004

ASSET Meeting, Barcelona

 

Sept. 2004

Jornadas de Economía Industrial, Granada

 

July 2003

SAET Conference, “Current Trends in Economics”, Rodos, Greece

 

March 2003

POWER Conference, University of California Energy Institute, Berkeley, USA

 

May 2003

IV CEPR Conference on Applied Industrial Organization, Leuven University

 

May 2003

CEPR Meeting on Financial Markets, Product Markets, and the Pace of Innovation in Europe, London, UK

 

Nov. 2002

Conference on Wholesale Electricity Markets, University of Toulouse

 

Sept. 2002

EARIE Conference, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain

 

Sept. 2001

EARIE Conference, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

 

Sept. 2001

Jornadas de Economía Industrial, Universidad Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain

 

March 2000

ASSET Meeting, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

 

Sept. 2000

EARIE Conference, University of Lausanne

 

Sept. 1998

EEA Summer School on Regulation and Competition Policy, University of Toulouse

 

Sept. 1998

Jornadas de Economía Industrial, Fundación Empresa Pública, Madrid, Spain

 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

 

2009-

Undergraduate course on Principles of Economics, Universidad Carlos III

 

2008

Master course on Regulation Theory, CEMFI

 

2008-2009

M.A. Course on Energy Economics, Barcelona Graduate School of Economics

 

2008-

Ph.D. Course on Energy Economics, Universidad Carlos III

 

2004-2009

Undergraduate course on Regulation Theory, Universidad Carlos III

 

2003-2009

Ph.D.-Master course on Regulation and Competition Policy, Universidad Carlos III

 

2003-2005

Undergraduate course on Industrial Organization, Universidad Carlos III

 

2002

Undergraduate course on Decision and Game Theory, Universidad Carlos III

 

2001-2002

Undergraduate course on Microeconomics, University of Toulouse

 

  PERSONAL INFORMATION

 

Date of Birth

27 December, 1975

 

Nationality

Spanish

 

 

Languages

Spanish, English, French and Italian

 

 

Last revised: November 2011