Estefania's research interests focus on the Economics of Contracts and Institutions, Economic History and Economic Development. She is affiliated to the Economic History Association, Royal Economic Society, member of the board of directors of ITFA and member of the editorial board of Oeconomia. She is Visiting Assistant Professor at UC Berkeley during the summer of 2012 and 2011. She has been research assistant at BRIE institute in UC Berkeley from June 2008-June2009. She has also been Teaching Assistant in the Economics Department at Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona.  Estefania has received several fellowships and awards among them; Salzburg Global Seminar Fellowship Session 456 (2008), UC Berkely Graduate Fellowship, Department of  Economics (2008-2009) and the Fundacion Caja Madrid Fellowship (2006-2008).

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Economics of Institutions and Organizations

Economic Development

Economic History

Diversity and Institutions: Theory and Evidence from the Spread of Industrialization

Why did Low Labor Productivity Persist in British India Textile Mills: Diversity, Firm's Structure and Beliefs

Leadership meets Culture: Multinational Subsidiaries CEOs

Expatriates as Leaders of Technology Transfer and FDI: Theory and Evidence from Mexico (joint with Kensuke Teshima)

Building the Linguistics Bridge between Culture and Economics (joint with Amir Shoham)

Macroeconomic Theory and Development (MBA Grande Ecole, english)

Macroeconomics (Periode Initiale, english)

Macroeconomics (Global MBA, starting 2012)

Economic History (Starting 2011-2012)

2009           All-UC Travel grant. Visit to British Library and London School of Economics
2008           Salzburg Global Seminar Fellowship Session 456
2008-2009   UC Berkeley, Graduate Fellowship Department of Economics
2006-2008   Fundacion Caja Madrid. Beca de Posgrado
2005-2006   Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Beca de Estudios

NEUDC MIT 11/2010 (presenter) Presentation of paper ''Leadership in Technology Transfer: Facts and a Theory of Multinational Expatriates" (joint with Kensuke Teshima)

NBERWorkshop in Culture and Economics  11/2010 (participant)

RES 2011 (forthcoming) paper accepted for presentation

PAC-DEV 2011 Berkeley, Presentation of paper ''Expatriates as Leaders of Technology Transfer and FDI in Mexico'' (joint with Kensuke Teshima)

6th IZA/World Bank Conference: Employment and Development, May 30-31, 2011 Mexico City. Presentation of paper ''Expatriates as Leaders of Technology Transfer and FDI in Mexico'' Presented by Kensuke Teshima

EARIE 2011

ETSG 2011 

PSE Economic History seminar, Fall 2011 

RES 2012 (forthcoming) paper accepted for presentation

Affiliations

-  THEMA (UCP)

-  Member of the Board of Directors of ITFA

-  Member of the Editorial Board of Oeconomia

Previous Research positions
- Research Assistant, Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy (07/2008- 07/2009) - Research on Sovereign Wealth Funds for Professor Cohen and professor Delong
- Research Assistant, Universidad Carlos III, Madrid, Spain (Summer 2005) - Empirical data research for Professor Jimenez and Professor Roses

Previous Teaching
- Teaching Assistant, Department of Economics, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (2005-2006) - Microeconomic Theory, Public Sector Economics, Applied Economics