I joined the department in 1994 after finishing the Master in Economic Analysis and Public Finance at the Institute for Fiscal Studies (Ministry of Economics, Madrid). I get my PhD at the University of Barcelona in 1999, with a dissertation on equalization grants and expenditure needs estimation. I got the tenure in 2000 and in 1998 I joined as a researcher the Barcelona Institute of Economics (IEB), a research centre specialized in fiscal federalism and regional economics.
My research interests are centred in the field of fiscal federalism and regional and local public finance and, more concretely, in the analysis of horizontal and vertical coordination in federal systems, the effects and design of equalization grants, and the estimation of expenditure needs of subnational governments. Recently, my research has focused also on the political economy of the geographical allocation of infrastructure investment and other public spending programs.

Research fields: Fiscal federalism fiscal, equalization grants, estimation of expenditure needs, tax competition, political economy of infrastructure allocation.