Professor of Applied Economics at Pompeu Fabra University Barcelona
Graduated in Law, Graduated in Economics, D. Phil in Public Economics from the University of York, he is currently Professor of Public Finance at the Faculty of Economics and Business, Pompeu Fabra University in Catalonia (Spain). He has been lecturing at the University of Barcelona and visiting professor at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford Univ.
He has created and directed the UPF Center for Health and Economics (1996-1906) and has been Vice Chancellor of the University (1994-1997) and Dean of the Faculty of Economic and Business Sciences at Pompeu Fabra (2000-2003) and appointed (March 2005) Member of the Board of Directors of the Bank of Spain. He has been a member of several public commissions in Spain on Health Policy, Pharmaceuticals, Health System Reform, Hospital Financing, Aging and Social Security, long-term care, etc. He is a member of the Advisory Council of the Ministry of Health and of the Spanish Catalan Department of Health. Member of the International Health Economy, President of the Conference in 2005 in Barcelona, he is co-director of AHLF (the International Health Policy Program of the articulation of CRES-UPF with Berkeley School of Public Health). He is a distinguished member of the Royal College of Economists of Catalonia, a member of the Royal Academy of Medicine of Catalonia and associated with the Spanish Academy.
He was nominated in 2007 as President-Elect 2008/09, and then became President for the term 20010/11, and former President 2010/11, of the International Association for Health Economics. His main areas of teaching and research in which he has published are: Microeconomics (Welfare), Social Policy, Public Finance, Public Administration and Health Economics (at the postgraduate level). Some recent posts: “A multilevel analysis of the determinants of regional health spending” European Journal of Health Economics (with M Saez) Springer Verlag, 2006 “Diversity and regional inequalities in the Spanish system of Health Services” (with J. Costa and I Planas) Health Economics. 14: S221-235, 2005 “The effects of the poor financial information system on public spending and on the long-term sustainability of local public services. Empirical evidence from Spanish municipalities, (with I. Moreno and E. García), Public Urban Economy Nº 5, 2006 pp. 25-49 Health and Economic Growth MIT Press with L. Currais and B. Rivera (eds.) 2005
He has references from the main journals related to economics and serves as a member of the Editorial Board of the Health Science Management and the Spanish Journal of Economics. Public, among others.
Categorías de conocimiento
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