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Rodríguez Mora, José Vicente
Economics
PhD: Instituto de Tecnología de Massachusetts- MIT
BIO
Born in Barcelona in 1965, Professor Rodríguez Mora earned a BA from UAB and then, a PhD from MIT. He teaches Economics at CUNEF Universidad and at the University of Edinburgh. He has worked in UPF and the University of Southampton. He visited the IIES (Stockholm University) in 1998–99 and 2000–01, the University of Minnesota and Minneapolis Fed in 2013–14, and EIEF (Rome) in 2020–21.
Currently, he is trying to think productively about the following issues:
- Using banking transaction data in economics
- Intergenerational mobility
- Consumption and income inequalities
He has supervised 15 PhD dissertations in UPF, UAB and Edinburgh, and is currently supervising three more.
He enjoys writing LaTeX packages and reading tons of serious history and amateur biology. Not much fiction, except some economics papers. He also loves skiing, trying to play the piano, and spending time with his two children.
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
Career
Research Fellow , Alan Turing Institute, 09/2017–09/2021
Professor of Economics, University of Edinburgh, 02/2008–Present
Professor of Economics, University of Southampton, 10/2005–01/2008
Associate/Assistant Professor, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 09/1995–07/2012 (on leave since 10/2005)
Publications in Scientific Journals
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.
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