CV. February 2010

Address: CEMFI. Casado del Alisal 5, 28014, Madrid, Spain

Tel: (+34) 914 290 551   Mobile: (+34) 652 437 069     Fax: (+34) 914 291 056  

E-mail: enrique.moral@gmail.com. Webpage: http://www.moralbenito.com

Research interests: Econometrics, Growth and Development, Bayesian Model Averaging.

Education

• PhD. Economics. CEMFI, Spain. Supervisor: Manuel Arellano. June 2010

• MPhil.  Economics and Finance. CEMFI, Spain. 2005 - 2007

• Licenciado en Economia, University of Las Palmas, Spain. 2000 - 2004

Research Experience

• Visiting Scholar, The World Bank, DECRG, Washington DC, USA. Spring 2009.
• Research Assistant, University of Oviedo, Spain. 2003 - 2004
• Research Assistant, University of Las Palmas, Spain. 2002 - 2003

Professional Experience

• The World Bank, DECRG, Washington DC, USA. Consultant. Summer 2007, Summer 2008
• Solchaga Recio & Asociados, Madrid, Spain. 2006. Summer Internship
• BBVA Bank, Madrid, Spain. January - July 2005. Junior Auditor
• ISS Facility Services, London, UK. September - December 2004. Night Cleaner
• European Subscription Service, Oviedo, Spain. September 2003 - June 2004. Sales Representative
• Teka, Las Palmas, Spain. 1999-2003. Warehouseman

Research Papers

• "Panel Growth Regressions with General Predetermined Variables: likelihood-based Estimation and Bayesian Averaging" (2010)
• "Determinants of Economic Growth: A Bayesian Panel Data Approach" (2010) World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 4830 (2nd resubmission The Review of Economics and Statistics)
• "Model Averaging in Economics" (2010)
• "Is Infrastructure Capital Productive? A Dynamic Heterogeneous Approach" (2009) (joint work with Cesar Calderon and Luis Serven)
• "Bayesian Posterior Prediction and Meta-Analysis: An Application to the Value of Travel Time Savings" (2010) MPRA Paper No. 12861 (submitted)
• "Determinants of Default Probabilities: A BMA Approach" (in progress) (joint work with Carlos Gonzalez-Aguado)
• "Non-linearities in Income and Democracy" (in progress)

• Department of Economics, Universitat Autonoma Barcelona, Spain (2010)
• National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS), Tokyo (2010)
• University of St. Gallen, Switzerland (2010)
• Research Department, Bank of Spain, Madrid (2010)
• Comision Nacional del Mercado de Valores, Madrid (2010)
• Research Department, De Nederlandsche Bank, Amsterdam (2010)
• Department of Economics, University of Warwick, United Kingdom (2010)
• PhD Meeting of The Royal Economic Society, London (2010)
• International Conference on Infrastructure Economics and Development, Toulouse (2010)
• Simposium of Economic Analysis, Valencia, Spain (2009)
• Econometric Society European Winter Meeting, Budapest, Hungary (2009)
• Annual Congress of the European Economic Association, Barcelona (2009)
• Conference on Panel Data, Bonn, Germany (2009)
• Mondragone-La Pietra-Moncalieri Doctoral Workshop, Turin (2009)
• Simposium of Economic Analysis, Zaragoza, Spain (2008)
• V Workshop on Efficiency and Productivity, Gijon, Spain (2008)
• Annual Congress of the European Economic Association, Milan, Italy (2008)
• Seminar on Efficiency and Productivity, University of Oviedo, Spain. (2007)
• University of Las Palmas, Spain. (2007)

Short Courses

• Growth Development and International Aid by Xavier Sala-i-Martin (Coimbra, Portugal)
• Empirical Policy Evaluation Methods by Richard Blundell (Paris)
• Empirical Strategies by Joshua Angrist (Madrid)
• A primer in Quantile Regression by Victor Chernozhukov (Madrid)

Languages

• Spanish, English

Computer Knowledge

• Microsoft Office, Eviews, Stata, Limdep, SPSS, Tramo-Seats
• Gauss, Matlab, Mata, Latex

Memberships

• Econometric Society
• European Economic Association
• American Economic Association

Other

• Research Associate: Economics of Infrastructure and Transport Research Group, University of Las Palmas

References