Curriculum Vitae
Name: Hugo Rodríguez
Mendizábal
Address
Instituto de Analisis Economico, CSIC
Campus UAB
08193 Bellaterra
Barcelona, Spain
Tel.: +34 93 580 66 12
Fax: +34
93 580 14 52
E-mail: hugo.rodriguez@iae.csic.es
Fields of specialization
Macroeconomics. Monetary Economics. International Economics.
Education
1992-1997 UNIVERSITY
OF CHICAGO, Ph. D. Economics
1991-1992 LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS, M.
Sc. in Econometrics and Mathematical Economics
1989-1991 CENTER FOR MONETARY AND FINANCIAL
STUDIES (CEMFI), Master in Monetary
Economics and Finance
1984-1989 UNIVERSIDAD
DE MALAGA, B.A. in Economics
Employment history
2009-2010
UNIV. AUTONOMA DE BARCELONA, Department of Economics, Visiting
Professor
2008- INSTITUTO
DE ANALISIS ECONOMICO (CSIC),
Tenured Scientist
2006-2008 INSTITUTO
DE ANALISIS ECONOMICO (CSIC), I3P Researcher
2001-2006 EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK,
Research Department, Consultant
2000-2006
UNIV. AUTONOMA DE BARCELONA, Department of Economics, Assistant
Professor
1997-2000 UNIV. POMPEU
FABRA, Department of Economics, Assistant Professor
1996-1997 UNIV. OF CHICAGO,
Department of Economics, Lecturer
1996-1996 IMF, Fiscal
Affairs Department, Summer Intern
1994-1995 UNIV. OF CHICAGO,
Department of Economics, Teaching Assistant
Publications
Refereed journals
- “On the Effects of Monetary (and Other) Shocks” (with Martin
Menner), Finnish
Economic Papers 21 (1), july 2008, (available as UFAE-IAE
Working
Paper 650.05)
- “Interest Rate Dispersion and Volatility in the Market for
Daily Funds”
(with
Vitor
Gaspar and Gabriel Perez Quiros), European
Economic Review 52 (3), pp. 413-440, april 2008 (available
as UFAE-IAE
Working
Paper 603.04)
- “The Optimal Degree of Exchange Rate Flexibility: A Target Zone
Approach” (with Jesus Rodriguez Lopez), Review of
International Economics 15 (4), pp. 803-822, September 2007
(available as UFAE-IAE
Working Paper 518.02)
- “Credit Markets and the Propagation of Monetary Policy Shocks”
(with Radim Bohacek), Journal of Money, Credit and
Banking 39 (6), pp. 1429-1455, September 2007 (available as UFAE-IAE
Working
Paper 599.04)
- “How
Tight Should One's Hands Be Tied? Fear of Floating and
Credibility of Exchange Rate Regimes” (with Jesus
Rodriguez Lopez), Topics in Macroeconomics, vol.
6 (1) article 4, 2006
(available as UFAE-IAE
Working Paper 593.03)
- “The Daily Market for Funds in Europe: What Has Changed
with the EMU?”
(with Gabriel Perez Quiros), Journal of Money, Credit and Banking
38 (1), pp. 91-118, February 2006 (available as UFAE-IAE
Working Paper 559.03)
- “The Behavior of Money Velocity in Low and High Inflation
Countries”, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking 38 (1), pp.
209-228, February 2006 (available as UFAE-IAE
Working
Paper 600.04)
- “Monetary Unions and the Transaction Cost Savings of a Single
Currency”, Review of International Economics
10 (2), pp. 263-277, May 2002 (an earlier version is available as Universitat Pompeu
Fabra, Working Paper 291)
Other publications
- “La Credilidad del Regimen Cambiario, el Miedo a la Flotacion y
la Amplitud Optima de la Banda” (with Jesus Rodriguez Lopez), Informacion
Comercial Española. Revista de Economia 814, pp. 123-130,
March-April 2004.
- “On the Efficiency Gains from Monetary Unions”, in Monetary
Policy and Banking Regulation, edited by Giorgio di Giorgio, Luiss
Edizioni, 2001
- “Contrastes de Credibilidad para la Banda de Fluctuación
de la Peseta en el SME”, Moneda y Credito 195, pp. 101-36, 1992
Working papers
- “Asymmetric Standing Facilities: An Unexploited Monetary Policy
Tool” (with Gabriel Perez Quiros), UFAE-IAE
Documento de Trabajo 795.09, 2009, submitted
- “High-growth Recoveries,
Inventories and the Great Moderation”
(with Maximo Camacho
and
Gabriel Perez Quiros), UFAE-IAE
Working Paper 772.09, 2009, submitted
- “Endogenous Financial Intermediation” (with Radim Bohacek), BBVA
Foundation Working Paper 9, 2009
- “The Daily Market for
Funds in Europe: Mathematical Appendix”
(with Gabriel Perez Quiros), Universitat
Pompeu
Fabra Working Paper 496, July 2000
- “Economic Determinants of Government Subsidies” (with Benedict
Clements and Gerd Schwartz), IMF
Working Paper 98/166, 1998
- “The Variability of Money Velocity in a Modified Cash-In-Advance
Model”, Universitat
Pompeu Fabra Working Paper 320, September 1998
Work in progress
- “Mixing the Ingredients:
Business Cycles, Technology Shocks, Productivity Slowdown and the Great
Moderation” (with Maximo Camacho and
Gabriel Perez Quiros)
Scholarships and other merits
2007
SPANISH MINISTRY OF EDUCATION
AND SCIENCE, Habilitation
2005-2007 BANCO BILBAO VIZCAYA ARGENTARIA,
Research Grant
2004
GENERALITAT DE CATALUNYA,
Research acreditation
2004-2006 SPANISH MINISTRY OF SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY, Grant SEC2003-0036
2002-2003 SPANISH MINISTRY OF SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY, Grant SEC2000-0684
1998-2001 SPANISH MINISTRY OF SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY, Grant SEC98-0231
1996-1997 ALFRED P. SLOAN, Doctoral
Dissertation Fellow
1995-1996 UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO,
Tuition Scholarship
1991-1995 BANK OF SPAIN, Madrid, Spain,
Scholarship for Graduate Studies Abroad
1989-1991 CENTER FOR MONETARY AND FINANCIAL
STUDIES (CEMFI), Madrid, Spain
Other academic activities
Academic service
- Deputy director, IDEA Ph.D. program, Universitat Autonoma de
Barcelona,
2009-present
- Placement officer, IDEA Ph.D. program, Universitat Autonoma de
Barcelona,
2008-2009
Thesis advised
- Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, April 2001, “Essays on
Macroeconomic
Dynamics” by Pedro Pablo Alvarez Lois
- Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, September 2002, “Essays on
Monetary
and Fiscal Policy” by Beatriz de Blas Pérez
- Universidad Pablo de Olavide, July 2003, “A Theory of Target
Zones” by
Jesús Rodríguez López
- Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, September
2004, (co-advised with Gabriel Perez Quiros) “Essays on the
Transmission Mechanism of Monetary Policy” by
Julius Moschitz
- Universitat Pompeu Fabra, February
2005, “On the Propagation and Identification of Monetary Policy Shocks”
by Martin Menner
- Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, May
2005, “Exchange Rate and Welfare in Small Open Economies” by
Balázs Világi
- Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, October
2005, “Essays on Investment and Business Cycles” by
Atanas Kolev
- Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, January
2007, “Essays in Macroeconomics: Barriers to Work and Underground
Economy; Trade and Exchange Rate Pass-Through; Pension Privatization
and Country Risk” by Arnoldo López
Thesis committees
- Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, October 1999, “Essays
on
Money and Endogenous Growth” by Jana Hromcová
- Universidad Pública de Navarra, June 2000, “Long-Run and
Short-Run Issues in Optimizing Monetary Models” by Mikel Casares Polo
- Universitat Pompeu Fabra, January 2001, “Essays on Monetary
Policy in
VARs” by Joaquim Pires Pina
- Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, September 2001,
“Essays on Growth Through Creative Destruction” by María
Fuensanta Morales Illán
- Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, April 2003, “Dynamic
Factor
Analysis as a Methodology of Business Cycle Research” by Konstantin I.
Kholodilin
- Universitat Pompeu Fabra, March 2005, “Essays on Macroeconomics
of
Banking” by Jose Manuel Peres Jorge
- Universitat Pompeu Fabra, July 2006, “Essays on Bayesian
Macroeconomics
with Small Samples” by Marek Jarocinski
- Universitat Pompeu Fabra, May 2008, “Puzzles in International
Finance:
Portfolio Diversification and Debt Maturity” by Gustavo Solorzano
- Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, October 2008, “The
Maastricht
Convergence Criteria and Monetary and Fiscal Policies for the EMU
Accession Countries” by Anna Lipinska
- Universitat Pompeu Fabra, July 2009, “Optimal Policy,
Heterogeneity and Limited Commitment” by Sofia Bauducco
- Universidad de Murcia, July 2009, “Ensayos sobre Tipos de Cambio
e Inflación en los Países de Latinoamérica” by
Fernando E. Torrejón Flores
- Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, September 2009, “Essays in
International Economics” by Ivo Krznar
Evaluations for
[JOURNALS] Banco
de España, Documentos de Trabajo; Contemporary Economic Policy;
European Central Bank, Working Paper Series; Econometrica;
European Economic
Review; Funcas, Documentos de Trabajo; Investigaciones
Económicas; Journal of International
Business
Studies; Journal of Money, Credit and Banking; Journal of
Political
Economy; Moneda y Crédito; Revista de Economía
Aplicada; Scandinavian Journal of Economics;
Spanish
Economic Review;
[PROJECTS] Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología;
Fundación BBVA; Czech Science Foundation;
Organization of conferences and seminars
Macroeconomics Workshop, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, academic year
1998-99
La Europa de las Regiones tras La Unión Monetaria, Universidad
Internacional Menendez Pelayo, Sevilla April 2000 (director)
RES Tour, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, May
2001 (co-director)
VII Jornadas de Economía Internacional, Universidad de
Málaga, June 2001 (academic committee)
Macroeconomics Workshop, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, academic
years 2000-01, 2001-02 and 2002-03
II, III and IV Workshop on International Economics, Univ. de
Málaga,
2002, 2003 and 2004 (academic committee)
Asset Anual Conference, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2004 (academic
committee)
32nd, 33rd, 34th Simposio de Análisis Económico, 2007
(academic
committee)
EEA-ESEM, 2009 (academic
committee)
Presentations at conferences
XXI Simposio de Analisis Economico (Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona,
December 1996). Macroeconomics Summer Conference (Northwestern
University, July 1996). EEA-ESEM
(Berlin, 1998). La Europa de las Regiones tras La Unión
Monetaria
(Universidad Internacional Menendez Pelayo, April 2000). The
Operational Framework of the Eurosystem and Financial Markets (ECB, May
2000). The Konstanz Seminar on Monetary Theory and
Policy (University of Bonn, October 2000). Jamboree (University
of Manheim, February 2001). I Jornadas de Macroeconomía en
Castilla-LaMancha
(Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, June 2002). Society for Economic
Dynamics Meetings
(Paris, 2003). CNB/CERGE-EI Macro Workshop (Czeck
National
Bank and CERGE-EI, June 2004).
EEA-ESEM (Madrid, August 2004). La Política Monetaria en Tiempos
de Turbulencias Financieras (Colegio de Economistas de Cataluña,
June 2008).
Seminars
Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City (February 1997). Duke University
(February 1997).
University of New York at Buffalo (February 1997). Universidad Carlos
III (February 1997). Universitat
Pompeu Fabra (February 1997).
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (February 1997). Bank of
England (February 1997). Universidad
del País Vasco (May 1998). Universidad Pública de Navarra
(May 1998). Universidad Pablo de Olavide (February
1999). Universitat Autónoma
de Barcelona (April 1999). CEMFI (March 2000). Universita Luiss
Guido Carli (May 2000).
Federal Reserve Bank of New York (September 2000). Universitat de
Girona (January 2001). CERGE-EI, Charles
University (January 2001). Universitat Pompeu Fabra (November 2001).
CENTRA, Málaga
(May 2003).
University of California Davis (October 2003).
Université des Sciences Sociales, Toulouse (January, 2004).
University of
Helsinki (February, 2004). CEMFI (May 2004).
Universidad de Malaga (May 2005). Universidad de Navarra (December
2006). Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (May 2007). Banco de
España (September 2009).
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