José V. Rodríguez Mora

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José V. Rodríguez Mora

CUNEF, University of Edimburgo and CEPR

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He earned a bachelor's degree in economics from Barcelona’s UAB and a doctorate from MIT. He is Professor of Economics at CUNEF University in Madrid and at the University of Edinburgh.

He has previously held positions at UPF in Barcelona and the University of Southampton. He has been a visiting scholar at the IIES (Stockholm), the University of Minnesota and the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, as well as the EIEF in Rome.

His work focuses on thinking productively about the use of bank transaction data in economics, intergenerational social mobility and income and consumption inequality.

Latest publications

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Spain | The Short Lags of Monetary Policy

6 March 2025

This Working Paper examines the transmission of monetary policy shocks to the macroeconomy at high frequency. To do this, daily consumption and investment aggregates are constructed using bank transaction records and administrative data to measure daily gross output and employment in Spain.

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Spain | The Spanish Households’ Carbon Footprint Inequality in High Definition & Real Time

3 May 2023

We analyze the distribution of greenhouse gas emissions resulting from the consumption of Spanish households, considering spending levels, age, gender, and different types of goods and services. Our approach combines official data, the Input-Output methodology and BBVA data.

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Spain | Short and Variable Lags

6 March 2023

We study the transmission of monetary policy shocks using daily consumption, corporate sales and employment series. We find that the economy responds at both short and long lags that are variable in economically significant ways.