EDUCATION
Ph.D., Economics, Vanderbilt University, May 2009.
M.A., Economics, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2005
B.Sc., Economics, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, 2003
B.A., Law, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, 2003
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Economics and Business, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2009- present
Affiliated Professor, Barcelona Graduate School of Economics, 2009- present
RESEARCH PAPERS
1."The effect of lawyers' career concerns on litigation."
2. "Overworking to win the case: representing cases in court and young lawyers' hours of work."
3. "Breaking the law when others do: A model of law enforcement with neighborhood
externalities," forthcoming at the European Economic Review.
Revise and resubmit.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Vanderbilt University, Teaching Assistant
Law and Economics, Spring 2007
Intermediate Macroeconomics, Spring 2007
Industrial Organization, Fall 2006
Principles of Microeconomics, Fall 2006
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Teaching Assistant
Economics for Engineers, Fall 2005
Introduction to Economics, Fall 2004
Mathematics for Economists, Spring 2004
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Research Assistant for Professors Andrew Daughety and Jennifer Reinganum, Sept. 2008
to present, NSF grant SES0814312 "Mass Torts and (Rational) Bayesian Optimism,"
Visiting student, Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University, January-June 2006
HONORS, GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS
College of Arts and Science, Summer Research Award 2008, Vanderbilt University
NSF selectee to participate in the 3rd Lindau Meeting in Economic Sciences, biennial
meeting of Nobel prize winners and graduate students in economics, 2008
Household International Best Research Paper Award 2007, Vanderbilt University
Kirk Dornbush Research Assistantship for AY 2007-08, Vanderbilt University
Doctoral Fellowship, Spanish Ministry of Education and Science, 2004-2006
Doctoral Fellowship, Ramon Areces Foundation, 2003-2004
Erasmus Scholarship, Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, Spring 2002
CONFERENCE AND SEMINAR PRESENTATIONS
36th Annual Conference of the EARIE, Ljubljana, Slovenia, September 2009
24th Annual Congress of the European Economic Association, Barcelona, August 2009
10th Annual Conference of the Association for Public Economic Theory, Galway, June 2009
ECORE Summer School on Market Evolution and Public Decision, Brussels, June 2009
2nd European Economic Review Talented Economists Clinic, Florence, May 2009
Simposio de Economía Española, Zaragoza, December 2008
Southern Economic Association, Washington D.C., November 2008
Meeting of the Canadian Law and Economics Association, Toronto, September 2008
University of Bonn, Law and Economics Workshop, July 2008
8th Annual Meeting of the American Law and Economics Association, New York 2008
6th Annual International Industrial Organization Conference, Washington DC, 2008
62nd European Meeting of the Econometric Society, Budapest, 2007
1st Graduate Student Conference at Washington University in Saint Louis, 2006
61st European Meeting of the Econometric Society, Vienna, 2006
8th International Social Choice and Welfare Meetings, Istanbul, 2006
REFEREE FOR:
International Economic Review, RAND Journal of Economics,
Economica, and Economics Bulletin
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:
Econometric Society, European Economic Association, European Association for Research in
Industrial Economics, American Law and Economics Association, Association for Public
Economic Theory
