RODRIGUEZ LOPEZ, JESUS

Jesús Rodríguez López graduated in Economics at Seville University (1992), is Master in Economics at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (1997) and earned his PhD. at Universidad Pablo de Olavide de Sevilla (2003). From 1997, he has been working at the Department of Economics of Universidad Pablo de Olavide. His main field of research deals with Dynamic Macroeconomics: fluctuations, firm dynamics, fiscal policy and informality, exchange rate regimes, energy consumption, road accidents and behavioral economics. His last publications include articles in Journal of Productivity Analysis, Macroeconomic Dynamics, The Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Energy Economics and SERIES.

As of July 2024, Prof. Rodríguez earned the accreditation as a Full Professor. He has four research terms (4 sexenios, the last one corresponds to the period 2020-2025). He has been visiting fellow at the University of Minnesota (2009, 2010, and 2011), the European University Institute (2004). Shorter visits 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 Andalusian governments (Ayudas para el Perfeccionamiento de Investigadores 2004 for the EUI; and Becas de Excelencia for the U. of Minnesota in 2009; and financial support from several projects and from Grupo de Investigación SEJ246).

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 (mainly) 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 4^th 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 four Master’s theses. Recently, he has started the supervision of Ph.D. Thesis at the UPO Doctorate Program.

He is Network’s node of 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).

He has acted as referee for journals: Journal of Asian Economics, Transport Policy, Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, SERIEs, World Economy, Telecommunication Policy, International Review of Economics and Finance, Macroeconomic Dynamics, Japan and the World Economy, Empirical Economics, Open Economies Review, Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, Papers in Regional Science, etc.

Publications:

1. “Emisiones de GEI por sectores económicos: ¿Qué sectores están adaptando mejor su intensidad energética?”, with Andrés Lorente and Gustavo Marrero. Papeles de Economía Española187, FUNCAS (2026).
2. M. Magalhaes and Jesús Rodríguez-López: “Firm Exit and Entry over the Business Cycle in Spain 2000-2019”. Journal of Productivity Analysis (2025). 
3. Jesús Rodríguez-López and Mario Solís-García: “On the Decline in the Magnitude of the Expenditure Multiplier”. Macroeconomic Dynamics, (2024) 28(6):1313-1345.
4. Yolanda Rebollo-Sanz, Jesús Rodríguez-López and Nuria Rodríguez-Planas: “Penalty-Point System, Deterrence and Road Safety: An Empirical Approach”. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, vol. 190, October 2021, 408-433.
5. Marina González, Gustavo Marrero, Ángel S. Marrero and Jesús Rodríguez-López: “Convergence in Road Transport CO2 Emissions in Europe”. Energy Economics, vol. 99, July 2021, 105322.
6. Gustavo Marrero, Marina González and Jesús Rodríguez-López: “Dieselization, CO₂ emissions and fuel taxes in Europe”. SERIEs, (2020) vol. 11, 203-241.
7. Antonia Díaz, Gustavo A. Marrero, Luis A. Puch and Jesús Rodríguez-López: “Economic Growth, Energy Intensity and the Energy Mix”. Energy Economics 81, June (2019), 1056–1077.
8. Marina González, Gustavo Marrero, Ángel S. Marrero and Jesús Rodríguez-López: “Analyzing CO2 emissions from passenger cars in Europe: A dynamic panel data approach”. Energy Policy 129, June (2019), 1271-1281.
9. David Mesa-Ruiz, Jesús Rodríguez-López and Yolanda Rebollo-Sanz: “Hidden figures behind two-vehicle crashes: An assessment of the risk and external costs of drunk driving in Spain”. Accident Analysis and Prevention 127 (2019) 42-51.
10. Jesús Rodríguez-López and Mario Solís-García: “Accounting for Spanish business cycles”. Macroeconomic Dynamics, 20, Issue 3 (April 2016), 685–714.
11. Hidalgo, J.M. O’Kean and Jesús Rodríguez-López: “Labor Demand and ICT Adoption in Spain”. Telecommunication Policy 40 (2016) 450–470.
12. Gustavo Marrero, Marina González, Teresa Leal and Jesús Rodríguez-López: “Road accidents and business cycles in Spain”. Accident Analysis and Prevention 96 (November 2016), 46-55.