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Rodríguez Mora, José Vicente
PhD: Instituto de Tecnología de Massachusetts- MIT
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Biography
José V. Rodríguez Mora is a Full Professor in the Department of Economics at CUNEF University and at the University of Edinburgh since 2008. He holds a PhD in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He has worked at Universitat Pompeu Fabra and the University of Southampton. He has been a visiting scholar at IIES (Stockholm), the University of Minnesota, the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, and EIEF in Rome.
His research focuses on the use of bank transaction data in economics, intergenerational social mobility, and income and consumption inequality. He has supervised 15 PhD dissertations (at UAB, UPF, and Edinburgh). His articles have been published in internationally renowned journals such as the American Economic Review, Review of Economic Studies, Royal Society Open Science, as well as the Economic Journal, Journal of Economic Growth, and Journal of International Economics, among others.
Education
PhD in Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1995)
MA in Economic Analysis, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona (1990)
BA in Economics, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona (1988)
Research Interests
Macroeconomics
Professional Career
Research Fellow, Alan Turing Institute, 09/2017 - 09/21
Research Fellow at CEPR, 02/2000 - Present
Research Affiliate at CESifo, 04/2002 - Present
Most relevant publications
Carvalho, Vasco M.; García, Juan R.; Hansen, Stephen; Ortiz, Álvaro; Rodrigo, Tomasa; Rodríguez-Mora, José V.; Ruiz, José: "Tracking the COVID-19 Crisis with High-Resolution Transaction Data", Royal Society Open Science, 8, Art.210218, 2021.
Güell, Maia; Pellizzari, Michele; Pica, Giovanni; Rodríguez-Mora, José V.: "Correlating Social Mobility and Economic Outcomes", The Economic Journal, Feature on New Directions in Measuring Intergenerational Mobility, 128 (612), F353-F403,2018.
Güell, Maia, Rodríguez-Mora, José V.; Telmer, Christopher: "The Informational Content of Surnames, the Evolution of Intergenerational Mobility and Assortative Mating", The Review of Economic Studies, 82(2), 693-735, 2015.
Hassler, John; Rodríguez-Mora, José V.; Storesletten, Kjetil; Zilibotti, Fabrizio: "The Survival of the Welfare State", The American Economic Review, 93(1), 1-26, 2003.
Hassler, John; Rodríguez-Mora, José V.: "Intelligence, Social Mobility and Growth", The American Economic Review, 90(4), 888-908, 2000.