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Florida State University and at the College of Business, Law, Education and Social Sciences of the University of
Bangor (Wales, UK), and an external consultant for the World Bank. He is the co-author of 20 books and has
published more than 40 articles in national and international academic journals (Annals of Regional Science,
Applied Economic Letters, Applied Economics, Applied Financial Economics, Economics Letters, European
Journal of Operational Research, International Journal of Transport Economics, International Review of Applied
Economics, Institutions and Money, Investigaciones Económicas, Journal of International Financial Markets,
Journal of Productivity Analysis, Journal of Transport and Statistics, Manchester School, Regional and Sectoral
Economic Studies, Regional Studies, Review of International Economics, Revista Española de Economía, The
European Financial Review, Transportation,, etc.). He is the main researcher on various competitive projects, as
well as projects with firms and government agencies. He is currently the main researcher on the National R&D
Plan Project Productividad y competitividad en la sociedad del conocimiento: desarrollo metodológico y análisis
empírico (ECO2011-23248) and director of an education innovation project of the Universitat de València.
(Personal web page: http://www.uv.es/jmpastor).
José Ramos (Universitat de València)
Dr Ramos graduated and obtained a PhD in Psychology from the Universitat de València where he is currently
Professor in Organizational Psychology and Work. From 2006 to 2012 he was Dean of the Faculty of
Psychology. He has directed 9 PhD theses. His specialist fields are the organizational climate and the
psychological contract, analysis of directive work, organizational management and service quality. He has
directed National R&D Plan projects and has also taken part in projects for the European Commission. He has
been a member of the AENOR Working Group (AENGET 22), Evaluación de personas en contextos laborales,
for the validation of the Spanish version of the ISO-10667 standard, and is coordinator of the National Referee
Committee that awards the European Qualification for Psychologists (Europsy) of the European Federation of
Psychologists Associations.He has attended numerous national and international congresses, and has
published various works in books, and in national and international journals.
Jesús Rodríguez López (Pablo de Olavide University, Seville)
Dr Rodríguez graduated in Economics from the University of Seville (1992) and obtained his PhD in Economics
from the Pablo de Olavide University of Seville (2003). He holds a Master in Economics from the Pompeu Fabra
University of Barcelona (1997). He is currently Professor at the Pablo de Olavide University and since March
2011 he is a collaborator of the UNICAJA Financial Education Platform (eduFInet). He was visiting researcher
at the University of Minnesota (2009, 2010 y 2011) and at the European University Institute of Florence (2004).
He has also been Assistant Professor in specialized courses for Professor Dr. Albert Marcet on Bayesian
Econometrics (2002) and Time Series Analysis: SVAR (1998), organized by the International Menéndez y
Pelayo University. His research fields are economic growth, progress in investment-specific technology, analysis
of exchange rate regimes and international economy. He has published nine articles in indexed journals:
Macroeconomic Dynamics, Open Economies Review, Information Economics and Policy, Journal of
Macroeconomics December, Eastern European Economics, Review of International Economics and The
Berkeley Electronic Press Journal of Macroeconomics (Personal web page: www.upo.es/econ/rodriguez/).
Emili Tortosa-Ausina (Universitat Jaume I)
Dr Tortosa graduated in Economics and Business Studies from the Universitat de València and obtained his
PhD with special honors from the Universitat Jaume I in Castellón, where he is currently an Associate Professor
in Applied Economics. He has also lectured in the Economic Analysis Department at the University of Alicante
and has held scholarships at various institutions. He has been a guest researcher at the Business Economics
Department at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, the School of Economics at the University of New
South Wales (Sydney, Australia), the Economics Department at Oregon State University (USA), the School of
Management of the University of Leicester (UK), and the Faculty of Business and Economics of the Diego
Portales University (Chile). His specialist research areas are economic measurement, in particular, the analysis
of efficiency and productivity. He has published various books in collaboration with others, and his articles have
appeared in specialized journals such as Annals of Regional Science, Applied Economics Letters, Applied
Economics, Applied Financial Economics, Computers and Operations Research, Economic Geography,
Economics Letters, Economics of Education Review, Empirical Economics, Environment and Planning A,
European Economic Review, European Journal of Operational Research, Growth and Change, Hacienda Pública
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