Faculty

Oihana Aristondo is an associate professor at the University of the Basque Country. She holds a degree in Mathematics and a Ph. D. in Economics from the University of the Basque Country. Her area of research interest lies in the measurement of inequality, poverty, and welfare economics. She has published in Review of Public Economics, Fuzzy Sets and Systems, The international Journal of Approximate Reasoning, Review of Income and Wealth, Research on Economic Inequality, Journal of Health Economics, International Journal of Intelligent Systems, Bulletin of Economic Research and Energy and Energy Policy.

Alaitz Artabe got her Ph. D. from the University of the Basque Country in 2013. Professor Artabe research interests include public economics, health economics, political economy, and discrete choice models. She has published in Political Analysis, Water resources management, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, International journal of health economics and management, Health Policy, and Science of the Total Environment.

Aitor Ciarreta received his Ph.D. in Economics from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 2000 and is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of the Basque Country. He has taught mainly at the University of the Basque Country but also at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, the University of Alicante, and Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona including Microeconomics, Business Economics, Antitrust and Regulation Economics, and Energy Markets. His research interests are in the fields of regulation and competition in markets of goods and services. His research has been published in journals such as Energy Economics, Energy Journal, Energy Policy, Journal of Forecasting, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Journal of Economics, and Journal of Regulatory Economics.

Professor Espinosa holds Masters and Doctoral degrees from Harvard University. Her research is mainly in the fields of Economic Theory, Game Theory, Experimental Economics, and Energy Markets.

Javier Gardeazabal received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1991 and is a Professor of Economics at the University of the Basque Country. Professor Gardeazabal has taught mainly at the University of the Basque Country but also at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of California, Santa Cruz, including International Finance, International Trade, Economic Growth, Macroeconomics, Monetary Economics, Microeconomics, Asset Pricing, Statistics, Time Series Econometrics and Causal Inference. Professor Gardeazabal has significantly contributed to the study of the economic consequences of terrorist conflicts, the analysis, and measurement of gender wage discrimination, and exchange rate dynamics. His research has been published in journals such as the Journal of Applied Econometrics, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Political Analysis, Journal of Mathematical Psychology, Journal of International Money and Finance, European Economic Review, Journal of Population Economics, Review of Economics and Statistics, American Economic Review, International Economic Review and Journal of Finance. Professor Gardeazabal is an associate editor of Defence and Peace Economics and served as a member of the Advisory Board of the Spanish Independent Fiscal Authority (AIReF).

Ph.D. in Economics by the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Professor of Economics at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) since 2010. I teach Microeconomics to undergraduates, Natural Resources Economics, and Management in the Master in Economics: Empirical Applications and Policies. My research focuses on Environmental Economics and Natural Resources, with publications in journals such as Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Environmental Resource Economics, ICES Journal of Marine Science, Fisheries Research, Regional Environmental Change, Journal of Public Economic Theory, and Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control. I have led several research grants. Currently, I am leading the project “Advances in the sustainable management of natural resources based on bioeconomic models” funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy, Industry, and Competitiveness (ECO2016-78819-R) as well as the research developed at the UPV-EHU within the European project “Science, Technology, and Society Initiative to minimize Unwanted Catches in European Fisheries (MINOUW)” funded by the European Commission (H2020-SFS-2014-2, number 634495). Web personal.

Professor Hoyos has been visiting researcher at Queen’s University Belfast (UK) and is an associate researcher at EKOPOL (Ecological Economics and Political Ecology Research Group), BC3 (Basque Center on Climate Change) and HEGOA (Institute for Development Studies and International Cooperation). He is a collaborator and member of the Committee of Experts of the UNESCO Chair on sustainable development and environmental education of the UPV / EHU. His main area of research focuses on the economic valuation of natural resources. His publications include more than 20 articles indexed in JCR. David Hoyos has participated in 23 research projects and contracts funded by the UPV/EHU, the Basque Government, the Ministry of Education and the European Commission. In 2015 he was hired by the European Commission as a senior expert for the development of a green economy in Belarus. In 2021 he published the book “Environmental Valuation with Discrete Choice Experiments Guidance on Design, Implementation and Data Analysis” (Springer).

Amaia Iza is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Economics and Business, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU. She obtained a Ph.D. in Economics from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, New York (USA). Her main research interests are Growth, Development, and Macroeconomics. She has published several scientific papers in international journals such as Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Applied Economics, Review of Development Economics, and Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. Amaia Iza can be contacted at amaia (dot) iza (at) ehu (dot) eus

Jaromir is an Associate Professor in the Economics Department I of the University of the Basque Country and a member of the Bilbao Research in Decisions, Games, and Economics (BRiDGE) group in Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain. He is also affiliated with CERGE-EI (Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education – Economic Institute in Prague, Czech Republic. He holds a Ph.D. from the Economics Department of the University of Alicante. Jaromir is a social scientist. His research interests are social norms, social preferences, social networks, and their dynamics. His research is both theoretical and empirical. He often uses experiments, real-life data, theoretical models, and occasionally computer simulations. The topics of my research lie on the border of various behavioral disciplines such as economics, psychology, biology, and sociology. As a result, his research combines (behavioral and evolutionary) game theory, agent-based modeling, and experimental economics. Currently, he extensively works on social networks, the effect of external shocks on social organization, and several projects associating human behavior with biological characteristics.

Casilda Lasso de la Vega is a full professor at the University of the Basque Country. She holds Ph. D. in Mathematics from the University of the Basque Country. She is interested in the measurement of inequality, poverty, and welfare economic. Most of her publications are related to characterizations of aggregative measures fulfilling some new properties.

Petr Mariel is a Professor at the Department of Econometrics and Statistics of the University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU (Bilbao, Spain). He has a Bachelor’s in Economics (University of Economics, Prague), a Master’s in Economics, and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU. He teaches basic and advanced quantitative methods master courses to Economics students. His teaching is mainly based on simulation techniques using the free programming language and environment for statistical computing and graphics R https://www.r-project.org/ Professor’s Mariel research focus is centered on discrete choice modeling applied mainly to environmental valuation, but he has also worked in the field of health, public and urban economics. He has published in many leading journals and also has consulted in the public and private sectors. He has held different leadership positions and he is the co-founder of a European scientific network of researchers using discrete choice modeling in the field of environmental valuation www.envecho.com.

Cristina Pizarro-Irizar is currently an Associate Professor at the University of the Basque Country and an associate researcher at the Basque Centre for Climate Change. She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of the Basque Country (with honors). Her research focuses on the economics of renewable energy, mainly in the analysis of the policies aimed at renewable energy support; energy efficiency, and climate change policy. She has published part of her research in journals specializing in energy issues (Energy Economics, Energy Policy, Renewable, and Sustainable Energy Reviews, The Lancet Planetary Health, Environment International, Energy Research and Social Science, Energy Sources, Part B: Economics, Planning, and Policy) and her work has been presented at national and international conferences. She was a visiting researcher at the Fraunhofer Institute (Germany) in 2014. She is member of the executive board of the Asociación Española para la Economía Energética and she has been named delegate in the Basque Country of the Asociación Española de Mujeres de la Energía.

I am an Associate Professor at the Department of Economic Foundations II at the University of the Basque Country. I received my doctorate in economics from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1992. My interest in gender issues then began when I took a course on topics in labor economics with Professor Audrey Light who afterward supervised my doctoral thesis entitled “Sample selection and gender wage differentials: Evidence from Spain”. After finishing my Ph.D. I returned to Spain and started working at the University of the Basque Country. I have continued working on this issue, but also on others such as unemployment, the transition from education to the labor market, youth employment, education, fertility, subjective well-being, time use, and cultural economics. I have presented the results of my research in national and international congresses. My publications include international journals with a general focus such as the Review of Economics and Statistics, Economica, and the Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics; field journals such as the Journal of Happiness Studies, Social Indicators Research, and Journal of Population Economics, book chapters, and a book. I have done research and teaching stays at the Laboratoire d’Economie d’Orleans (LEO, University of Orleans) and at the Center for Time Use Research (University of Oxford). I also have experience in management. I have been Vice Dean for Quality and Vice Dean for Practicum and Relations with the firms.

Professor of Economic Analysis at the University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU. Supervisor of eight Ph. D. Thesis in Economics. Main publications reflect his research interests: They may be found in previous papers as (the general topic of the paper in parentheses) Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 1990 (Decision theory under uncertainty), International Journal of Game Theory 1993 (Cooperative game theory), Journal of Public Economics 1993 (Labor economics) and European Journal of Political Economy 1994 (R&D policy) or in very recent papers as Economics Letters 2017 (Risk measures), Mathematics and Financial Economics 2018 (Risk measures), The Manchester School 2018 (Environmental policy) and the B. E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy (Effects of emission taxes), forthcoming. He has also published books on Auctions and on the Economics of asymmetric information.

Jesús Vázquez is a Full Professor in the Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) since 2009. He served as department chair from 2009-2013. He received a Ph.D. in Economics from the State University of New York at Sony Brook in 1992. Professor Vázquez has published around 40 papers in a large number of scientific journals such as International Economic Review, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Economic Inquiry, Macroeconomic Dynamics, Journal of Macroeconomics, European Journal of Political Economy, and the Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, among others. He has been a visiting scholar at the University of California at San Diego, Kansas State University, Warwick University, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, and Universidad Pública de Navarra. He has been the head researcher of many scientific projects financed by the Spanish and Basque Governments as well as from other institutions such as the Bank of Spain.

Ainhoa Vega-Bayo is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU (Bilbao, Spain). She received her BA and Ph.D. in Economics with honors, specializing in Econometrics and Statistics. Her research focuses on program evaluation methods and discrete choice modeling applied primarily to education, gender issues, and economic development. She has held visiting positions at Harvard University (predoctoral, 2013) and UC Berkeley (postdoctoral, 2015). Her research has been published in international peer-reviewed journals and she has participated in several regional and national research projects, as well as collaborating with the Iseak Foundation (iseak.eu). She currently teaches at undergraduate (Microeconomics and Macroeconomics) and graduate levels (Quantitative Methods).