MARIA SÁNCHEZ VIDAL Facultat d’Economia i Empresa, Universitat de Barcelona Institut d’Economia de Barcelona (IEB) Avinguda Diagonal, 690 08034 Barcelona (Spain) Phone number: +34 646 71 70 23 E-mail: [email protected] www.mariasanchezvidal.com EDUCATION September 2012 – at present PhD student in Economics, Universitat de Barcelona & IEB Dissertation: “Essays on Urban Economics” Supervisors: Jordi Jofre-Monseny and Elisabet Viladecans-Marsal October 2013 – April 2014 Visiting Research Student at SERC (Spatial Economics Research Centre), London School of Economics, UK. Supervisors: Henry Overman and Olmo Silva. 2010 – June 2012 MSc in Economics, Universitat de Barcelona Fields of specialization: Public Economics and Game and decisionmaking Theory Dissertation: “Sequential city growth in the US: Does age matter?” Supervisors: Rafael González-Val and Elisabet Viladecans-Marsal 2006 – 2010 BA in Economics, Universitat de Barcelona RESEARCH INTERESTS Urban Economics, Economic Geography Public Economics, Labour Economics PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 2010 – at present Pre-Doctoral Research Fellow, Universitat de Barcelona & Institut d’Economia de Barcelona (IEB) 2010 – at present Occasional Research Assistant to Dr. Elisabet Viladecans-Marsal September 2014 – at present Organiser of the IEB PhD Seminars WORKING PAPERS AND PUBLICATIONS “Sequential city growth in the US: Does age matter?” Regional Science and Urban Economics, vol.44, 2937. (with R. Gonazález-Val and E. Viladecans-Marsal). - Previous version: “Sequential city growth in the US: Does age matter?” Institut d'Economia de Barcelona, Universitat de Barcelona 2013/01 (with R. Gonazález-Val and E. Viladecans-Marsal) (paper). WORK IN PROGRESS “Do big plant closures really cause indirect job losses?” “Land use regulations and urban structure: Evidence from the retail sector” FUNDED RESEARCH PROJECTS 2014 – 2016 “Global Challenges, Local Responses: The Role of Cities as Engine of Economic Prosperity (Retos Globales, Respuestas Locales: el papel de las ciudades como motor de la prosperidad económica)” (ECO2013-41310-R), awarded by Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia. Lead researcher: Elisabet Viladecans-Marsal. 2014 – 2016 “Research Group on Fiscal Federalism and Urban Economics (Grup de Recerca en Federalisme Fiscal i Economia Urbana)” (2014SGR420), awarded by Generalitat de Catalunya. Lead researcher: Albert Solé-Ollé. 2010 – 2013 “Thriving Cities: Agglomeration economies, innovation and public policies (Ciudades prósperas: Economías de aglomeración, innovación y políticas públicas)” (ECO2010-16934), awarded by Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia. Lead researcher: Elisabet Viladecans-Marsal. SCHOLARSHIPS 2010 – at present APIF Research grant (Universitat de Barcelona) TEACHING EXPERIENCE 2014 – 2015 Principles of taxation (undergraduate) 2013 – 2014 Principles of taxation (undergraduate) 2012 – 2013 Public Finance (undergraduate) Public Economics (undergraduate) Regional and Local Finance (undergraduate) 2011 – 2012 Public Finance (undergraduate) Public Economics (undergraduate) 2010 – 2011 Spanish Economy (undergraduate) CONFERENCES AND SEMINARS 2014: “XXXIX Simposio de la Asociación Española de Economía”, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Palma de Mallorca (Spain), December 11-13. (SCHEDULED) “9th Meeting of the Urban Economics Association at the 61st Annual North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International”, Washington, D.C., November 12-15 (SCHEDULED). “INFER Workshop in Urban and Regional Economics”, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Reus (Spain), September 4-5. “6th Annual SERC Conference”, London School of Economics and Political Science (UK), May 15-16. 2013: “IEB PhD Workshop”, Universitat de Barcelona (Spain), December 17. “4th Michaelmas Term PhD/Work-in-Progress seminar”, London School of Economics and Political Science (UK), October 30th. “53rd ERSA Congress”, Urban Economics Association, Palermo (Italy), August 27-31. “5th Annual SERC Conference”, London School of Economics and Political Science (UK), May 14-15. 2012: “XXXVII Simposio de la Asociación Española de Economía”, Universidad de Vigo (Spain), December 1315. “XV Encuentro de Economía Aplicada”, Universidad de La Coruña (Spain), June 7-8. “IEB PhD Workshop”, Universitat de Barcelona (Spain), May 25. SUMMER SCHOOLS 2013: BARCELONA MICROECONOMETRICS SUMMER SCHOOL: “Quantitative Methods for Public Policy Evaluation” Graduate School of Economics (GSE), Barcelona (Spain), July 8 – 12, Course taught by Dr. Stephan Litschig (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) and Gabrielle Fack (Universitat Pompeu Fabra). 2011: IV SUMMER SCHOOL IN PUBLIC ECONOMICS: “Immigration and Public Policy” IEB, Barcelona (Spain), July 4 – 8, Course taught by Prof. George Borjas (Harvard University) and Prof. Leah Platt Boustan (University of California, Los Angeles). 44th SUMMER SCHOOL IN SOCIAL SCIENCE DATA ANALYSIS: “Introduction to Stata”, University of Essex, Colchester (UK), July, Course taught by Prof. Karen Robson (York University, Toronto). ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Member of the Organizing Committee II Workshop on Urban Economics, June 4-6, 2012, Institut d’Economia de Barcelona (Spain) III Workshop on Urban Economics, June 9-10, 2014, Institut d’Economia de Barcelona (Spain) Languages Catalan (native) Spanish (native) English (fluent) – TOEFL (106/120) French (beginner) Computer skills Advanced knowledge of MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, E-views and Stata; basic knowledge of Derive, GeoDa, GIS and LaTeX. October 2014