Research Interests

Economic Growth, Macroeconomics, Public Economics

Articles (In English)

• The transitional dynamics of an endogenous growth model: Generalizing production functions, Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics, forthcoming, 2012. (with Tiago N. Sequeira)
• A note on R&D spillovers in an endogenous growth model with physical capital, human capital and varieties, Macroeconomic Dynamics, forthcoming, 2012. (with Tiago N. Sequeira).
• Equilibrium dynamics of an endogenous growth model with an erosion effect and duplication in R&D, The Manchester School, forthcoming, 2011.
• Stages of economic development in an innovation-education growth model, Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics 15 (4), Article 6, 2011.
• Duplication externalities in an endogenous growth model with physical capital, human capital, and R&D, Economic Modelling 28 (1-2), 181-187, 2011.
• Public spending in a model of endogenous growth with habit formation, Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society, Vol. 2010, Article ID 514329, 2010.
• The welfare cost of external habits: A quantitative assessment, Estudios de Economía 37 (1), 5-26, 2010.
• A note on external habits and efficiency in the AK model, Journal of Economics 99 (1), 53-64, 2010.
• Endogenous growth, habit formation and convergence speed, The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics, Vol. 10, Issue 1 (Topics), Article 1, 2010.
• Equilibrium efficiency in the Ramsey model with utility and production externalities, Journal of Economics Studies 36 (4), 355-370, 2009.
• Fiscal policy, congestion, and endogenous growth, Journal of Public Economic Theory 10 (4), 595-622, 2008.
• Utility and production externalities, equilibrium efficiency and leisure specification, Journal of Macroeconomics 30 (4), 1496-1519, 2008.
• Convergence speed in the Ak endogenous growth model with habit formation, Economics Letters 100 (1), 16-21, 2008.
• Dynamics of the saving rate in the neoclassical growth model with CES production, Macroeconomic Dynamics 12 (2), 195-210, 2008.
• Consumption and leisure externalities, economic growth and equilibrium efficiency, Scottish Journal of Political Economy 55 (2), 227-249, 2008.
• Equilibrium efficiency in the Ramsey model with habit formation, Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics 11 (2), Article 2, 1-34, 2007.
• Optimal flat-rate taxes on income and consumption in an endogenous growth model, Journal of Macroeconomics 29 (2), 305-325, 2007.
• Optimal consumption taxation in a model of endogenous growth with external habit formation, Economics Letters 93 (3), 427–435, 2006.
• Equilibrium efficiency in the Uzawa-Lucas model with sector-specific externalities, Economics Bulletin 8 (3), 1-8, 2006.
• Externalities and fiscal policy in a Lucas-type model, Economics Letters 88, 251-259, 2005.
• A null-space method for computing the search direction in the general inertia-controlling method for dense quadratic programming, European Journal of Operational Research 161 (3), 655-662, 2005.
• Transitional dynamics in an endogenous growth model with physical capital, human capital and R&D, Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics 9 (1), Article 5, 2005.
• Optimality of the competitive equilibrium in the Uzawa-Lucas model with sector-specific externalities, Economic Theory 23, 941-948, 2004.
• Optimal fiscal policy in a growing economy with public capital, Macroeconomic Dynamics 8, 419-435, 2004.
• Optimal fiscal policy in the Uzawa-Lucas model with CES production, Internacional Advances in Economic Research 10 (3), 202-124, 2004. (with Antonio Sarmiento and J. Antonio Seijas).
• The effect of the government temporal horizon on the optimal tax structure, Economics Bulletin 8 (1), 1-8, 2004.
• Equilibrium dynamics in the one-sector endogenous growth model with physical and human capital, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 28, 367-375, 2003.
• Effects of flat-rate taxes: to what extent does the leisure specification matter?, Review of Economic Dynamics 6, 404-430, 2003. [Reprinted in: Clement Tisdell, ed., (2007), The Economics of Leisure, The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics, Vol. 200 (Series Editor: Mark Blaug), Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK.]
• Optimal fiscal policy in the Uzawa-Lucas model with externalities, Economic Theory 22, 917-925, 2003.
• Constraint deletion strategy in the inertia-controlling quadratic programming method, European Journal of Operational Research 139, 193-205, 2002. (with Luis P. Pedreira).
• Subsidy policies in a fertility choice model, Atlantic Economic Journal 29, 438-449, 2001.
• Income variation, endogenous population growth and health subsidy, Estudios de Economía 28, 165-181, 2001. (with Luis C. Currais).
• An O(n²) active set algorithm for solving two related box constrained parametric quadratic programs, Numerical Algorithms 27, 367-375, 2001.
• Welfare-maximizing tax structure in a model with human capital, Economics Letters 68, 95-99, 2000.
• An O(n²) active set algorithm for the solution of a parametric quadratic program, Numerical Algorithms 22, 305-316, 1999.

Articles (In Spanish)

• Reforma fiscal y bienestar en la economía de México (Fiscal reform and welfare in the mexican economy), Economía mexicana. Nueva Época XIII, 161-189, 2004.
• Planteamiento y solución de cierto problema de programación impositiva: Un análisis comparativo (Setting and solution of a certain tax programming problem: a comparative analysis), Investigación Operacional 22, 124-131, 2001.
• Reforma fiscal y bienestar: el caso de Chile (Fiscal reform and welfare: the case of Chile), Cuadernos de Economía, Latin American Journal of Economics 37, 273-298, 2000. (with J. Antonio Seijas).
• La dependencia lineal del conjunto de trabajo en el método de conjunto activo que controla la inercia (Linear independence of the working set in the inertia-controlling active-set method), Estudios de Economía Aplicada 9, 35-60, 1998. (with Luis P. Pedreira).
• Sobre la interpretación del algoritmo primal-dual de puntos interiores (On the interpretation of the primal-dual interior-point algorithm), Investigación Operacional 19, 97-115, 1998. (with Luis P. Pedreira)

Book Chapters

• Approach to congestion optimum toll in traffic networks, in: M. Pursula y J. Niittymäki, eds., Mathematical Methods on Optimization in Transportation Systems, Applied Optimization, Vol. 48, Kluwer Academic Publishing, Dordrecht, pp. 175-186, 2001. (with Luis P. Pedreira and J. Antonio Seijas).
• An O(n²) active set method for solving a parametric quadratic program, in: O. P. Iliev, M. S. Kaschiev, S. D. Margenov, Bl. H. Sendov y P. S. Vassilevski, eds., Recent Advances in Numerical Methods and Applications II, World Scientific Publishing, River Edge, NJ, pp. 733-741, 1999.

Head researcher

• Externalities, economic growth and welfare, Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation, 2011-2014.
• Externalities, equilibrium efficiency and economic growth, Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation, 2008-2011.
• Effects of habit formation on economic growth and welfare, Xunta de Galicia, 2006-2008.
• Externalities, equilibrium efficiency, and fiscal policy, Spanish Ministry of Education and Science, 2005-2008.
• Fiscal policy, human capital, and economic growth, Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology, 2002-2005.
• Health expenditure and its effects on economic growth, University of A Coruña, 1998-1999.

Researcher

• Human capital: labor insertion of Galician youth, Xunta de Galicia, 2002-2004.
• Optimal congestion toll for highways: analysis of the great urban areas of Galicia, Xunta de Galicia, 2000-2001.
• Health investment, productivity and regional growth: special reference to the Galician case, Xunta de Galicia, 1999-2000.
• Estimation of an optimal toll associated to the use of road infrastructures, Spanish Ministry of Infrastructures, 1998-1999.

Atlantic Economic Journal, Economic Modelling, Economica, European Economic Review, European Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Comparative Economics, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Journal of Economic Studies, Journal of Economics, Journal of Macroeconomics, Macroeconomic Dynamics, Manchester School, Mathematical Methods of Operations Research, Mathematical Programming, Mathematical Reviews, Optimization Letters.

• Chairman, Department of Applied Economics II, University of A Coruña, 2005-2009.
• Chairman, Doctorate Program, Department of Applied Economics II, University of A Coruña, 2005-present.
• Academic Secretary, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of A Coruña, 1999-2001.