CURRICULUM VITAE

 PERSONAL DATA

Name: Sanchez - Robles , Blanca.

Place and date of birth: Madrid, September 30,1964.

Present Positions:

Associate Professor in Macroeconomics, Department of Economics, Universidad de Cantabria (Santander, Spain).

Chair, Department of Economics, Universidad de Cantabria (Santander, Spain).

e-mail: sanchezb@unican.es

DEGREES

1987: B.Sc. in Economics, Colegio Universitario de Estudios Financieros (CUNEF), Universidad Complutense Madrid.

1990: Ph.D. in Applied Economics, Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales, Universidad de Navarra (Pamplona, Spain). Doctoral Dissertation: "The causes of the external debt crisis, LatinAmerica 1974 -1982". Summa Cum Laude.

TEACHING POSITIONS

a) 1987- 1990: Teaching Assistant in Introduction to Economics, Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales, Universidad de Navarra.

b) 1991- 1996: Assistant Professor in Macroeconomics, Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales, Universidad de Navarra.

c) 1996: Associate Professor in Macroeconomics, Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales, Universidad de Cantabria.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Economic growth and convergence: theoretical models and empirical analysis.

Open Economy Macroeconomics, with special attention to the EMU performance.

Macroeconomics of LDC, with special attention to Latin America

1. AT THE UNIVERSIDAD DE NAVARRA

Teaching at the Undergraduate and Graduate level on Introduction to Economics, Political Economy, Intermediate Macroeconomics, Advanced Macroeconomics, History of Economic Thought.

Teaching at the graduate level on Methodology of Economics

2. AT THE UNIVERSIDAD DE CANTABRIA

Teaching at the Undergraduate level on Intermediate Macroeconomics, Advanced Macroeconomics, International Finance.

Teaching at the Graduate level on Advanced Macroeconomics.

PUBLICATIONS (BOOKS)

Title: "La deuda latinoamericana. Causas y responsables de una crisis". EUNSA, 1991.

PUBLICATIONS (CHAPTERS IN BOOKS)

Title: "Ciencia económica, antropología y racionalidad", in Rodriguez, A. And Fontrodona, J., El empresario en el nuevo marco socio-económico, Humanismo y Empresa, Santander 1997.

Title : "Spain in the European Union : a new approach to regional convergence" (co- authored with José Villaverde), in Meeusen, W. (ed.), Economic Policy in the European Union, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham 1999, p. 67-83.

Title: "La convergencia: algunas consideraciones macroeconómicas", in El reto de la convergencia real, Círculo de Empresarios, 1999, Madrid.

Title: "Economic growth and income distribution in the OECD countries" (co-authored with O. Alfranca and M.A. Galindo), in Paraskevopoulos, C., A. Kintis and A. J. Kondonassis (eds) Globalization and the political economy of trade policy, Toronto, APF Press, 2001, p. 251-264.

Title: "Convergence or twin peaks? The Spanish case" (together with José Villaverde), in Meeusen, W. and Villaverde, J. Convergence issues in the European Union,  Edward Elgar, Cheltenham 2002, p.41-60.

PUBLICATIONS (articles)

"Deuda externa latinoamericana". Nuestro Tiempo, June 1990, p. 102-112.

"The Relationship between Economics and Psychology in Robbins", International Journal of Social Economics, volume 21, number 8, 1994, p. 3-13.

"Iberoamérica en la segunda mitad del s. XX: tres enfoques alternativos de política económica". Información Comercial Española, n. 741, May 1995, p. 111-129.

"Rendimientos a escala en el sector de la máquina herramienta español", With Plaza, B., Caneda, A., Sanjurjo, E., Revista de Economía de la Universidad de Valladolid, 1995, p. 245-254.

"Foreign Direct Investment in LDC : some empirical evidence". Anales de Economía y Administración de Empresas, n. 3, 1995, p.59-72.

"Capital público y crecimiento económico: un modelo alternativo". Cuadernos de Economía vol 23, n. 66, May-August 1995, p. 349-371.

"Eficiencia del sistema financiero, estabilidad macroeconómica y crecimiento económico en España, 1962-1995". Cuadernos de Información Económica 120/121, 1997, p. 193-207.

"Financial Efficiency and Economic Growth : The case of Spain". International Advances in Economic Research, Nov. 1997, p. 333-351.

"Infrastructure Investment and Growth : Some Empirical Evidence". Contemporary Economic Policy, January 1998, p. 98-108.

"Macroeconomic Stability and Economic Growth : The Case of Spain". Applied Economic Letters, 1998, n. 5, p. 587-591.

"The Role of Infrastructure Investment in Development : Some Macroeconomic Considerations" International Journal of Transport Economics, vol. 25, n. 2, June 1998, p. 113-136.

"Disparidades provinciales y clubes de convergencia en España", (together with José Villaverde), Revista de Estudios Regionales, Sept-Dec 1998, p. 177-199.

"Convergencia regional en España y Unión Monetaria: un nuevo enfoque", (together with José Villaverde), Revista Asturiana de Economía, n. 13, Dec. 1998, p. 113-130.

"Perturbaciones asimétricas y unión monetaria: las regiones españolas" (together with Juncal Cuñado), Papeles de Economía Española, 80,1999, p. 152-170.

"Cantabria en la U.E.M.: un análisis de costes y beneficios" (together with José Villaverde), Revista Situación, (special issue on Cantabria), 2000, p. 125-143.

"Sectoral structure and real convergence among Spanish regions" (together with Juncal Cuñado), International Advances in Economic research, May 2000, p. 259-270.

"Polarización, convergencia y movilidad entre las provincias españolas, 1955-1997", (together with José Villaverde), Revista Asturiana de Economía, nº 20, April 2001, p. 7-26.

"Crecimiento económico y desigualdad en los países lationamericanos" (together with Marta Bengoa), Información Comercial Española, nº 790, febrero-marzo 2001, p. 63-74.

"Foreign Direct Investment, Economic Freedom and Growth: New Evidence from Latin-America" (together with Marta Bengoa) European Journal of Political Economy 2003, forthcoming.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

Eficiencia del sistema financiero, estabilidad macroeconómica y crecimiento económico en España, 1962-1995". Documento de Trabajo 134/1997, Fundación FIES.

"Navarra en la Unión Europea", European Commission, Spanish Representation, Madrid 1999.

GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS

FPI Doctoral Grant, Ministry of Education, from 1987 to 1991.

Grant from the Fundación de las Cajas de Ahorro. Project on "Financial Efficiency and Economic Growth". 1996.

Grant from DGICYT, Ministry of Education. Project number PB-0351 on "Regional Convergence and territorial disparities". 1998.

Grant from the European Commission. Project on "Spanish Autonomous Communities in the EU", sept-dec 1998.

Member of a project financed by the World Bank, on "Infrastructures, inequality and growth in Latin America".

SELECTED PAPERS PRESENTED IN CONFERENCES

"Infrastructures and Economic Growth : some empirical evidence", Annual Meeting of the Western Economic Association, San Francisco, Jun. 28 – Jul. 2 1996.

"Capital público y crecimiento económico: un modelo alternativo y nueva evidencia empírica" , XX I Simposio de Análisis Económico, Barcelona Dec. 11-13 Dec. 1996

"Financial Efficiency and Economic Growth : the case of Spain", International Atlantic Economic Society Annual Conference, London, March 12-17 1997.

"Distortions and Economic Growth : The Spanish Case, 1962-1995", 14th International Conference of WACRA-Europe on Sustainable Development, Madrid 16-19 Sept. 1997.

"Convergence Clubs in Spain : 1955-1995".    International Atlantic Economic Society Annual Conference (together with José Villaverde). Rome, March 14-19 1998.

"Convergence Clubs in Spain : 1955-1995". (together with José Villaverde), II Conference of the European Urban and Regional Studies Association, Durham, (UK), Sept 17-19 1998.

"Real convergence and sectoral structure: the case of the Spanish regions" (1980-1993) (together with Juncal Cuñado), ", International Atlantic Economic Society Annual Conference, Vienna, March 14-23 1999.

"Will EMU increase regional disparities within Spanish regions? A calibration exercise ". (together with José Villaverde), Annual Conference of the European Regional Studies Association, Dublin, August 22-27 1999.

"Real convergence and sectoral structure: the case of the Spanish regions" (1980-1993) (together with Juncal Cuñado), Conference of the Regional Studies Association, Bilbao, Sept. 18-21 1999.

"Regional disparities and asymmetric shocks: the case of the Spanish Regions", (together with Juncal Cuñado), International Atlantic Economic Society Annual Conference, Munich, March14-19, 2000.

"The time-elimination technique in practice: an application to models of endogenous growth with public capital", Seventh Viennese Workshop on optimal control, dynamic games and nonlinear dynamics, Vienna , May 24-26, 2000.

"Inversión directa extranjera en Latinoamérica: impacto sobre el crecimiento económico", (together with Marta Bengoa), III Encuentro de Economía Aplicada, Valencia, June1-3, 2000.

"Polarization among Spanish regions? A Markov chains’ approach", (together with José Villaverde), Annual Meeting of the Portuguese Association for Regional Development, Azores, June 30 – July 2 2000.

"Regional disparities and asymmetric shocks: the case of the Spanish Regions", (together with Juncal Cuñado), Annual Conference of the European Regional Studies Association, Barcelona, August 29- Sept 2, 2000.

"The time-elimination technique in practice: an application to models of endogenous growth with public capital", Annual Meeting of the European Economic Association, Bolzano, August 30-Sept 2, 2000.

"The time-elimination technique in practice: an application to models of endogenous growth with public capital", XXV Simposio de Análisis Económico, Barcelona, December 19-21, 2000.

"Polarization among Spanish regions? A Markov chains’ approach", (together with José Villaverde), Atenas 49 th Atlantic Economic Conference, Athens, March 14-19 2001.

"Economic growth and inequality in Latin American countries: Some theoretical and empirical considerations", (together with Marta Bengoa), VII Jornadas de Economía Internacional, Málaga, June 20-22 2001.

"Costs of EMU from a regional approach: The Spanish case ", (together with Jose Villaverde), Annual Conference of the European Regional Studies Association, Zagreb, August 29 – Sept 2 2001.

"Foreign Direct Investment and economic growth in Latin America: A panel data anaylsis", (together with Marta Bengoa), Workshop on Economic Freedom, University of Groningen, November 15-16, 2001.

"The time-elimination technique in practice: an application to models of endogenous growth with public capital", 6º World Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, Orlando, 14-18 julio 2002 (publicado en los Proceedings del congreso)

"EMU and macroeconomic shocks: some evidence on Spanish regions" (together with Adolfo Maza). Annual Conference of the European Regional Studies Association, Dortmund, August 27-31  2002.

POSTDOCTORAL ACTIVITIES

Graduate courses on Macroeconomics and Econometrics, Department of Economics, University of California, Berkeley, January-March1994.

Graduate courses on Macroeconomics and Econometrics, Department of Economics, University of California, Berkeley, August-December 1995.

Visiting Scholar, Columbia University, New York, Sept-Dec 2000. Supervisor: Xavier Sala-i-Martin.

OTHER MERITS

Languages: English correctly spoken, read and written. First Certificate from the University of Cambridge attained in 1980; TOEFL of 630 in 1994.

Member of the American Economic Association, Western Economic Association, European Economic Association, International Atlantic Economic Society.

External Consultant of the World Bank, 2000.

International Relations Coordinator, Universidad de Navarra, Oct 91-Jan 96.

International Relations Coordinator, Universidad de Cantabria, Oct 96-Jun 99.

Chair, Department of Economics, University of Cantabria, from December 2000 to present

I write articles twice a month for the Economic Newspaper of national coverage La Gaceta de los Negocios.

September 19, 2001