About

Background, agenda and trajectory

Position

I am Assistant Professor in Public Finance (Profesor Ayudante Doctor) at the University of Málaga and accredited by ANECA as Associate Professor (Profesor Contratado Doctor).

Research agenda

My work sits at the intersection of three areas that are usually treated separately. I am particularly interested in the cases where they overlap.

  • Fiscal policy and public debt sustainability. I study how fiscal consolidation episodes interact with debt dynamics in advanced economies, with a focus on the EU-27 and on the role of the interest-growth differential.
  • Behavioural economics applied to public policy. I look at how heuristics, beliefs and information frictions shape household financial decisions and how these patterns matter for policy design.
  • Data, methods and AI in economic research. I work in R, increasingly with AI-assisted pipelines, and explore how generative AI tools change both the speed and the scope of empirical economic research.

The connecting question is institutional. As advanced economies face simultaneously rising debt, ageing populations and the early stages of an AI-driven labour-market transition, the fiscal and behavioural foundations of public policy require revisiting. My research tries to contribute small, empirical pieces to that revision.

Trajectory

  • 2026 – Assistant Professor in Public Finance, University of Málaga.
  • 2019 PhD in Economics, University of Cantabria. Thesis on the economic behaviour of citizens in public-interest services from an EU perspective.
  • Previously, data scientist for the regional government of Cantabria.

Education

  • PhD in Economics · Universities of Cantabria, Oviedo and the Basque Country (2019).
  • MSc in Economics.
  • BSc in Economics.

Acknowledged scientific outputs

  • 4 international publications, 2 of them in Q1 (JBEE 2025, Global Policy 2020).
  • Working paper on fiscal consolidation under review at the International Review of Economics & Finance (2026).

Otros idiomas

Soy profesor ayudante doctor en Hacienda Pública en la Universidad de Málaga, acreditado por ANECA como profesor contratado doctor. Mi investigación combina política fiscal, economía conductual y datos, con atención creciente al impacto de la inteligencia artificial sobre la base fiscal de las economías avanzadas. Mi trabajo reciente ha aparecido en el Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (2025) y en Global Policy (2020). Fuera de la academia, dirijo Outlook Project, un canal de YouTube sobre economía, datos y decisiones humanas.