Jesús
Rodríguez López

Jesús Rodríguez López graduated in Economics from the University of Seville (1992), holds a Master's degree in Economics from Pompeu Fabra University (1997), and earned his PhD from Pablo de Olavide University in Seville in 2003 (A Theory of Target Zones, supervised by Hugo Rodríguez Mendizábal, IAE-CSIC). Since 1997, he has worked in the Department of Economics at Pablo de Olavide University. His research focuses on dynamic macroeconomics: fluctuations, business dynamics, fiscal policy and informality, exchange rate regimes, energy consumption, traffic accidents, and behavioral economics. His recent publications include articles in the Journal of Productivity Analysis, Macroeconomic Dynamics, The Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Energy Economics, and SERIES. Professor Rodríguez López currently holds four six-year research terms, the most recent corresponding to the period 2020-2025. He has been a visiting researcher at the University of Minnesota (2009, 2010, and 2011) and the European University Institute (2004). Other shorter research stays include the University of Pennsylvania (February 2025) and the Macalester College (Saint Paul, Minnesota, April-May 2018). He has received financial support for these stays through postdoctoral fellowships from the Spanish government and the Regional Government of Andalusia (Research Improvement Grants 2004 for the European University Institute; and Excellence Grants for the University of Minnesota in 2009; and financial support from various projects and the SEJ246 Research Group). He has five teaching terms (5 quinquenios, the last one corresponds to the period 2016-2021). Moreover, he has obtained positive evaluations at students quarterly regular evaluations for his teaching and from DOCENTIA (2018-2022). For over 30 years, his teaching experience has ranged from Introduction to Economics and Microeconomics to Macroeconomics. During the last 12 years, he teaches special syllabi on Monetary Policy, and Business Cycle Models, at the Degree in Economic Analysis of UPO. At UPO, he coordinates core undergraduate modules in the 4th year of the Degree in Economic Analysis at UPO. He has been assistant teacher of Prof. Albert Marcet in two courses on Macroeconomics and SVAR (1998) and Bayesian Econometrics (2002). He has taught Master-level courses on Macroeconomics and SVAR at UPO, UNIA and Universidad de Málaga. He has supervised several TFG’s and supervised three master’s theses. Recently, he has started the supervision of Ph.D. Thesis at the UPO Doctorate Program. He has collaborated with the Spanish Macroeconomic Network (SMN), and in October 2023 he was chairman of the organizing committee of the VI Workshop of the SMN. He was President of the Organizing Committee of the XVIII Jornadas de Economía Internacional AEEFI, UNIA La Rábida (Huelva), 2017. He has collaborated as associate researcher of IVIE (Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas), and has been economist advisor of Junta de Andalucía, Consejería de Hacienda (2010, 2008), and the Joint Research Center of the European Commission (2007). He has been member of several scientific, academic committees, Ph.D. Dissertation Commitees: Simposio de Análisis Económico (2016; 2017, 2018, 2019, 2022); Jornadas AEEFI (2017, 2018); ASSET (2015); Program Ramón y Cajal and Juan de La Cierva (2016).