1. Educación

MIRIAM HORTAS RICO
Current Office address:
Complutense University of Madrid
Department of Applied Economics VI: Public Finance and Tax System
Campus de Somosaguas Ed.6 Dp.2,
28223 Pozuelo de Alarcón, Madrid, Spain
[email protected]
Phone (office): (+34) 91 394 30 34
EDUCATION
2013
Complutense University of Madrid (Spain), PhD in Public Economics (with Distinction)
Title of the Thesis: “Essays on urban sprawl and local public finance”
Supervisor: Professor Albert Solé-Ollé. Grade: Excellent Cum laude
2006-2007: University of Barcelona (Spain) Research Project (Advanced Studies Diploma). Title:
“Does urban sprawl increase the provision cost of public services? Evidence from Spanish
municipalities”. Supervisor: Professor Albert Solé Ollé. Grade: Distinction.
2005-2006: University of Barcelona (Spain) PhD Courses in Economics (awarded with the Quality
Mention of the Spanish Ministry of Education). Average Grade: 3.00 (scale 1:4)
2007-2008
University College London (UK), Master of Science in Economics.
Dissertation title: “Urban sprawl and municipal budgets in Spain: a dynamic panel data analysis”
(Distinction)
2001-2005
University of Barcelona (Spain), BA in Economics
Average Grade: 2, 51 (Top 2%)
OTHER EDUCATION
Seminars organized by the Faculty of Economic Science and Business of the University of Barcelona:
Theories of Tax Competition. John D. Wilson, Michigan State University (16 hours), June 2007.
The Economics of Local Public Goods. Jan k. Brueckner, University of California (16 hours), June
2007.
Economics of information. David Pérez Castrillo, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (20 hours),
June 2006.
Economics of Taxation: Fundamentals. Helmuth Cremer, University of Toulouse. (16 hours), June
2006.
Economics of Taxation: Analysis of Taxes. Craig Brett, Mount Allison University. (20 hours), May
2006.
Others:
III Workshop on Urban Economics. Barcelona (Spain), June 2014.
Using the R package for spatial econometrics, 6th Seminar Jean Paelinck of Spatial Econometrics,
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid (Spain), October 2013.
Economic Analysis of Public Policies, Instituto de Estudios Fiscales, Madrid (Spain), November
2011.
The Public Sector in the Economic Crisis. El papel del Sector Público en el crecimiento y ante la
crisis económica. Directors: Guillem López Casasnovas and Juan Francisco Jimeno. XXI Cursos
Europeos de la Universidad del País Vasco. San Sebastián (Spain), July 2009.
Panel Data Analysis, Professor Badi H. Baltagi, Center for Policy Research, Syracuse University.
Public Economics course at the Spanish Institute for Fiscal Studies, Madrid (Spain). 20-23 May 2009.
Panel/Longitudinal Data Analysis, Professor Frank Windmeijer, University of Bristol. CEMMAP
training course at the UCL Economics Department, London (UK). 12-13 March 2009.
I Summer School in Public Economics: Evaluation of the effectiveness and efficiency of public
policies. Efficiency analyisis in the public sector. Michael Lechner, Universität St. Gallen; Jeffrey
Smith, University of Michigan. University of Economics & Barcelona Institute of Economics, June
2008.
I Summer School in Public Economics: Evaluation of the effectiveness and efficiency of public
policies. Evaluation of public policies. Tim Coelli, University of Queensland; Andrew Street, The
University of York. University of Economics & Barcelona Institute of Economics, June 2008.
FIELDS OF INTEREST
Fiscal Federalism, Urban and Regional Economics, Local Public Finance, Estimation of Expenditure Needs, Applied
Microeconometrics, Spatial Econometrics.
RESEARCH STAYS
Department of Economics, University of California-Irvine, September-December 2009 (Professor Jan Brueckner).
MAIN PUBLICATIONS
Hortas-Rico, M.; Solé-Ollé, A. (2010): Does urban sprawl increase the costs of providing local public services?
Evidence from Spanish municipalities. Urban Studies 47(7), 1513-1540.
Hortas-Rico, M.; Solé-Ollé, A. (2008): Does urban sprawl increase the costs of providing local
public services? Evidence from Spanish municipalities. Working paper 2008/006, Barcelona Institute
of Economics.
Hortas-Rico, M. (2013): "Urban sprawl and municipal budgets in Spain: a dynamic panel data analysis", Papers in
Regional Science (forthcoming).
Hortas-Rico, M. (2010): "Urban sprawl and municipal budgets in Spain: a dynamic panel data
analysis", Working paper 2010/43, Barcelona Institute of Economics.
Hortas-Rico, M. (2014): “Sprawl, blight and the role of urban containment programs. Evidence from US cities”. Journal
of Regional Science (forthcoming)
Hortas-Rico, M. (2013): “Sprawl, blight and the role of urban containment programs. Evidence from
US cities”. Working paper 2013/002, Barcelona Institute of Economics.
Hortas-Rico, M.; Salinas-Peña, P. (2014): “Determinación de la escala mínima eficiente en la provisión de bienes
públicos locales. Evidencia para los municipios españoles”, Revista de Economía Aplicada
(forthcoming)
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Gómez-Antonio, M.; Hortas-Rico, M.; Li, L. (2014) “The causes of urban sprawl in Spanish urban áreas: a spatial
approach”, Working paper series, Collection B: Regional and Sectoral Economics, 1402,
Universidade de Vigo, GEN - Governance and Economics research Network.
Hortas-Rico, M.; Onrubia, J.; Pacifico, D. (2014) “Estimating the personal income distribution in Spanish municipalities
using tax micro-data”, International Center for Public Policy Working Paper Series, paper 1419,
International Center for Public Policy, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State
University.
Hortas-Rico, M.; Onrubia, J.; Pacifico, D. (2013) “Personal income distribution at the local level. An
estimation for Spanish municipalities using tax microdata”, International Center for Public Policy
Working Paper Series, paper 1314, International Center for Public Policy, Andrew Young School of
Policy Studies, Georgia State University.
Hortas-Rico, M. (2011) “Financiación municipal y crecimiento disperso en España”. Ayuda a la investigación en
gobierno local 2009. Papeles del Centro para la Innovación Local y del Instituto de Ciencias Políticas
y Sociales, 02/2011, Diputación de Barcelona.
Hortas-Rico, M., Salinas Peña, P. (2013): Las subvenciones de nivelación y las necesidades de gasto municipal. Nota
d’Economia, número 101, 90-106, Generalitat de Catalunya.
PRESENTATION OF RESEARCH
11th PEARL Seminar: Public Economics at the Regional and Local level. Rennes (France), October 2014.
“Aspectos económicos de la reforma de los gobiernos locales”, Consorcio Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo
Barcelona (CUIMPB) – Centro Ernest Lluch. Barcelona, July 2014.
Conferencia RIFDE, La nueva reforma de la financiación autonómica: análisis y propuestas. Santiago de Compostela
(Spain), May 2014.
21st Meeting of Public Economics. Fiscal Policy Challenges for Southern Europe: Public Debt Sustainability, and the Role
of Institutions. Girona (Spain), January 2014.
20th Meeting of Public Economics. Welfare State: Sustainability and Reforms. Seville (Spain), January 2013.
International Conference. The Challenge of Local Government Size: Theoretical Perspectives, International Experience,
and Policy Reform. REDE and University of Vigo. A Coruña, Galicia (Spain), September 2011.
17th Meeting of Public Economics: Public policies for the crisis. Session: Local Public Finance II. Murcia (Spain),
February 2010.
56th Annual North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International. Session: Urban Analysis. San
Francisco (USA), November 2009.
16th Meeting of Public Economics: Financial Crisis and Public Sector. Session: Local Public Finance II. Granada (Spain),
February 2009.
Seminar at the Department of Applied Economics, Complutense University of Madrid. Madrid (Spain), December 2008.
55th Annual North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International. Session: Local Public Finance.
Brooklyn, New York (USA), November 2008.
European Regional Science Association (47th Congress): Local Governance and Sustainable Development. Special
Session: Spatial Analysis of Public Policy. Paris (France), August 2007.
Seminar at the Barcelona Institute of Economics. Barcelona (Spain), May 2007.
ACADEMIC AND RESEARCH POSITIONS
2008-present
Department of Applied Economics VI: Public Finance, Complutense University of Madrid,
Madrid (Spain) –Assistant Lecturer.
Taught Theory of Public Economics (2008-2009, 2010-2011, 2011-2012, 2012-2013 ); Introduction to
the Tax System (2008-2009, 2009-2010), Spanish Tax System (2011-2012); Fiscal Federalism (20122013).
2014-present
GEN (Governance and Economics research Network) - Researcher
2013-present
RIFDE (Red de Investigadores en Financiación Autonómica y Descentralización Financiera en
España) – Researcher.
2005-2013
Barcelona Institute of Economics (IEB), Barcelona (Spain) – Research assistant.
Worked in a researcher team specialized in fiscal federalism and regional economics. Skills acquired
during this period include research skills, presentation skills and the ability to work with specific
software as Stata, Eviews and Gauss.
AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
2014
PhD Thesis Award, Faculty of Economics, Complutense Universityof Madrid (Spain).
2009-2010
Award from the Catalan Government (Beca per a la realització de treballs individuals, Institut
d’Estudis Autonòmics).
2009
Research grant from the Barcelona Provincial Council (Ajut a la Recerca en Govern Local, DIputació
de Barcelona i Institut de Ciències Polítiques i Socials).
2009
Best paper award at the 16th Meeting of Public Economics, Granada (Spain)
2007-2008
Postgraduate scholarships to study abroad, Caja Madrid Foundation.
2006 -2007
Research Staff Training Fellowship (Beca para la formación de doctores del Programa Nacional de
Formación de Profesorado Universitario) awarded by the Spanish Government to the best PhD
students.
2006
I was awarded by the Economists Association of Catalonia with The best academic curriculum in
2006 prize, an award granted to the best academic record of the year of each Catalan University.
LANGUAGES AND COMPUTER LITERACY
Languages: Bilingual in Catalan and Spanish, Fluent in English, Beginner in French.
Computer Literacy: programmer level in Stata, Gauss, Limdep, EViews, GeoDA, R.
Miriam Hortas Rico, October 2014.