Economist
Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas

Biographical

• Citizenship: Spanish
• Language: Spanish and Valenciano (native) / English (fluent)

Education

• University of Wisconsin–Madison, Ph.D. in Economics, 2007
• University of Wisconsin–Madison, M.Sc. in Economics, 2004
• University of Pennsylvania, M.A. in Economics, 2002
• University of Alicante, B.A. in Economics (with honors), 2000

Fields of Interest

• Major Fields: International Macroeconomics (Open Economy Macroeconomics) and Finance, Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics, Applied Econometrics
• Minor Fields: Stochastic Optimal Control, Continuous-Time Finance, Asset Pricing

Professional Experience

• Economist, Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, July 2007–Present

Research Experience

• Project Assistant, Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy (WAGE), University of Wisconsin–Madison, September 2006–June 2007
• Project Assistant, University of Wisconsin–Madison, September 2005–June 2006
• Ph.D. Intern, Bank of England, Monetary Analysis Division, June 2005–August 2005
• Project Assistant, University of Wisconsin–Madison, January 2005–May 2005
• Research Assistant, University of Alicante, September 1999–June 2000

Teaching Experience

• Invited Professor, University of Alicante, Globalization and Monetary Policy (graduate-level mini-course), December 2007
• Teaching Assistant, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Microeconomics (graduate-level course), September 2004–December 2004

Honors and Awards

• Bank of Spain Graduate Fellowship, 2000–04
• Harold Groves Economics Prize for Research in Quantitative Economic Policy, Department of Economics, University of Wisconsin–Madison, 2003–04
• Premio extraordinario de Licenciatura, Merit-Based Award from the University of Alicante, 2000
• Premio extraordinario al Rendimiento Académico, Merit-Based Award from the Regional Government of Valencia, Spain, 2000
• Segundo Premio Nacional de Fin de Carrera en Economía, Second National Prize in Economics (B.A.), Ministry of Education and Culture, Spain, 2000

Working Papers

   Open-Economy Macroeconomics

• "Globalization and Monetary Policy: An Introduction," GMPI Working Paper no. 11, April 2008
• "The Real Exchange Rate in Sticky Price Models: Does Investment Matter?" (with Jens Sondergaard), February 2008
• "A Monetary Model of the Exchange Rate with Informational Frictions," GMPI Working Paper no. 2, October 2007
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•  "Monetary Policy in a Small Open Economy: The Cases of Spain and the U.K.," August 2005 

   International Finance

• "Partial Observation of Returns, Portfolio Choices and the Home Bias Puzzle," March 2005

   Asset Pricing

• "Housing Prices, Property Taxes and Neighborhood Relocation" (with Ethan Cohen-Cole), February 2008

Other Research Activities

• "Lecture Notes on Globalization and Monetary Policy (Rules)," April 2008

Seminars, Workshops and Lectures

  2008

• Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco (16th SNDE Symposium)

 2007

• University of Alicante (Lecture), Texas A&M University (Seminar), University of Wisconsin–Madison (Graduate Student Conference in Probability), Université de la Mediterranée–Aix en Provence (2nd OMD Conference), Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas (Seminar), Federal Reserve Bank of Boston (Seminar), Bank of Spain (Seminar), Deustche Bundesbank (Seminar), University of Saskatchewan (Seminar), Ohio State University (Seminar), Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Seminar)

   2006

• University of Alicante (Seminar), University of Wisconsin–Madison (Seminar), University Jaime I–Castellón de la Plana (Seminar)

   2005

• Bank of England (Seminar), Bank of Spain (Seminar), University of Wisconsin–Madison (Seminar)

   2004

• University of Wisconsin–Madison (Seminar)

Occasional Referee

• Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Finance Research Letters, Journal of International Economics