CURRICULUM VITAE FOR HUGO RODRIGUEZ MENDIZABAL

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

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 Jesús Rodríguez López), 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 Jesús 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

“Are the High-Growth Recovery Periods Over?” (with Maximo Camacho and Gabriel Perez Quiros), UFAE-IAE Working Paper 772.09, submitted to Oxford Bulletin of Economic and Statistics
“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)
“Endogenous Financial Intermediation” (with Radim Bohacek)

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

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

Evaluations for

Banco de España, Documentos de Trabajo. Contemporary Economic Policy. European Central Bank, Working Paper Series. European Economic Review. Funcas, Documentos de Trabajo. 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.

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)
XXXII Simposio de Análisis Económico, 2007 (academic committee)
XXXIII Simposio de Análisis Económico, 2008 (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).

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