Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales

Áreas de especialización

Desarrollo económico regional, Economía espacial, Eficiencia y productividad.

Proyectos

Investigador Principal:

"Improving Environmental Efficiency for more Sustainable European Regions: New Data and Empirical Evidence" (PID2022-138212NA-I00). Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación. IP: Javier Barbero y Ernesto Rodríguez Crespo. Duranción:  01/09/2023 al 31/08/2027.

“Heterogeneous Firms General Equilibrium Model (HETFIGE)”. Exploratory Research Program of the European Commission, Joint Research Center (JRC), Enero 2018 - Diciembre 2019.

Lineas de investigación

1. Desarrollo económico de las regiones europeas y fondos estructurales.

2. Efecto de la calidad institucional sobre el desarrollo económico y social.

3. Doble transición verde y digital y productividad ambiental.

Asignaturas impartidas

Curso 2022-2023:

Crecimiento Económico

Macroeconomía: Economía Abierta e Inflación

 

Cursos anteriores:

Microeconomía: Consumo y Producción

Computer Lab in Economics

Horario de tutorías

A concretar con cada grupo y semestre a través de la página de docencia en red o por email.

Zofío, J.L., Aparicio, J., Barbero, J., Zabala-Iturriagagoitia, J.M. (2024). Benchmarking performance through efficiency analysis trees: Improvement strategies for colombian higher education institutions,  Socio-Economic Planning Sciences,  92(101845): 1-5.

Barbero, J., Diukanova, O., Gianelle, C., Salotti, S., Santoalha, A. (2024). Technologically related diversification: One size does not fit all European regions,  Research Policy,  53(3): 104973.

Marques Santos, A., Barbero, J., Salotti, S., Conte, A. (2023).  Job creation and destruction in the digital age: Assessing heterogeneous effects across European Union countries,  Economic Modelling,  126 (106405): 1-12.

Zofío, J.L., Aparicio, J., Barbero, J., Zabala-Iturriagagoitia, J.M. (2023).  The influence of bottlenecks on innovation systems performance: Put the slowest climber first, Technological Forecasting and Social Change,  193(122607): 1-15.

Barbero, J. and Zofío, J.L. (2023).  The measurement of profit, profitability, cost and revenue efficiency through data envelopment analysis: A comparison of models using BenchmarkingEconomicEfficiency.jl, Socio-Economic Planning Sciences,  89(101656): 1-18.

Persyn, D., Barbero, J., Díaz-Lanchas, J., Lecca, P., Mandras, G., Salotti, S. (2023).  The ripple effects of large-scale transport infrastructure investment,  Journal of Regional Science,  63(4): 755-792.

Santos, A., Barbero, J., Salotti, S., Diukanova, O., Pontikakis, D. (2023).  On the road to regional ‘Competitive Environmental Sustainability’: the role of the European structural funds, Industry and Innovation,  30(7): 801-823.

Barbero, Javier; Conte, Andrea; Crucitti, Francesca; Lazarou, Nicholas-Joseph; Sakkas, Stylianos; and  Salotti, Simone (2022). The impact of the recovery fund on EU regions: a spatial general equilibrium analysis. Regional Studies. Forthcoming. https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2022.2123467

Barbero, Javier; Christensen, Martin; Conte, Andrea; Lecca, Patrizio; Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés; and Salotti Simone (2022). Improving Government Quality in the Regions of the EU and its System-Wide Benefits for Cohesion Policy. Journal of Common Market Studies. Forthcoming. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcms.13337

Barbero, Javier; and Rodríguez-Crespo, Ernesto (2022). Technological, institutional, and geographical peripheries: regional development and risk of poverty in the European regions.  The Annals of Regional Science. 69, 311-332. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00168-022-01127-9

Barbero, Javier; Diukanova, Olga; Gianelle, Carlo; Salotti, Simone; Santoalha, Artur (2022). Economic modelling to evaluate Smart Specialisation: an analysis of research and innovation targets in Southern Europe. Regional Studies, 56(9), 1496-1509. https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2021.1926959

Persyn, Damiaan; Díaz-Lanchas, Jorge; Barbero, Javier (2022), Estimating road transport costs between and within European Union regions, Transport Policy, 124, 33-42. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tranpol.2020.04.006

Barbero, Javier; De Lucio, Juan; y Rodríguez-Crespo, Ernesto (2021). Effects of COVID-19 on trade flows: measuring their impact through government policy responses. PLoS ONE, 16(10): e0258356 . https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0258356

Barbero, Javier; Zabala-Iturriagagoitia, Jon Mikel; Zofío, José L. (2021). Is more always better? On the relevance of decreasing returns to scale on innovation. Technovation, Volume 107 (102314), 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.technovation.2021.102314

Barbero, Javier; Mandras, Giovanni; Rodríguez-Crespo, Ernesto; and Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés (2021). Quality of government and regional trade: evidence from European Union regions. Regional Studies. Volume 55(7), 1240-1251. https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2021.1873934

Mieszkowski, Krzysztof; and Barbero, Javier (2021), Territorial patterns of R&D+I grants supporting Smart Specialisation projects funded from the ESIF in Poland, Regional Studies, Volume 55(3), 390-401. https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2020.1782877

Abeliansky, Ana Lucia; Barbero, Javier and Rodriguez-Crespo, Ernesto (2021). ICTs quality and quantity and the margins of trade, Telecommunications Policy, Volume 45(1), 102056. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.telpol.2020.102056

Balk, Bert M.; Barbero, Javier and Zofío, José L. (2020), A toolbox for calculating and decomposing Total Factor Productivity indices, Computers & Operations Research, Volume 115 (104853), 1-23. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cor.2019.104853

Álvarez, Inmaculada C.; Barbero, Javier and Zofío, José L. (2020), A Data Envelopment Analysis Toolbox for MATLAB, Journal of Statistical Software, Volume 91(3), 1-49. http://dx.doi.org/10.18637/jss.v095.i03

Barbero, Javier and Rodriguez-Crespo, Ernesto (2018), The effect of broadband on European Union trade: A regional spatial approach, The World Economy, Volume 41 (11), 2895-2913. https://doi.org/10.1111/twec.12723

Edquist, Charles; Zabala-Iturriagagoitia, Jon Mikel; Barbero, Javier; Zofío, José L., (2018), On the meaning of innovation performance: Is the synthetic indicator of the Innovation Union Scoreboard flawed?, Research Evaluation, Volume 27(3), 196–211. https://doi.org/10.1093/reseval/rvy011

Barbero, Javier; Behrens, Kristian; Zofío, José L., (2018). Industry location and wages: The role of market size and accessibility in trading networks, Regional Science and Urban Economics, Volume 71, pp. 1-24.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2018.04.005

Álvarez, Inmaculada C.; Barbero, Javier; Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés; Zofío, José L., (2018). Does Institutional Quality Matter for Trade? Institutional Conditions in a Sectoral Trade Framework, World Development, Volume 103, pp. 72-87. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2017.10.010

Aparicio, Juan; Barbero, Javier; Kapelko, Magdalena; Pastor, Jesús T. and Zofío; José L., (2017). Testing the consistency and feasibility of the standard Malmquist-Luenberger index: Environmental productivity in world air emissions, Journal of Environmental Management, Volume 196, pp 148-160. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2017.03.007

Álvarez, Inmaculada C.; Barbero, Javier and Zofío, José L, (2017). A Panel Data Toolbox for MATLAB. Journal of Statistical Software. Volume 76, Issue 6, pp 1-27. http://dx.doi.org/10.18637/jss.v076.i06

Álvarez, Inmaculada C.; Barbero, Javier and Zofío, José L, (2016). A Spatial Autoregressive Panel Model to Analyze Road Network Spillovers on Production. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, Elsevier, vol. 93(C), pages 83-92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tra.2016.08.018

Barbero, Javier and Zofío, José L (2016), The Multiregional Core-periphery Model: The Role of the Spatial Topology. Networks and Spatial Economics, Springer US, 16(2): 469-496. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11067-015-9285-7

Álvarez, Inmaculada C. and Barbero, Javier, (2016). The Public Sector and Convergence with Spatial Interdependence: Empirical Evidence from Spain. Applied Economics, 48(24): 2238-2252. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00036846.2015.1117048

Experiencia profesional

Javier trabajó seis años como analista económico en el Joint Research Centre (JRC) de la Comisión Europea, realizando investigación sobre el impacto diversas políticas económicas mediante el uso de técnicas econométricas y modelos espaciales de equilibrio general.

Otra información de interés

Acreditado como Profesor Titular de Universidad por la Agencia Nacional de Evaluación de la Calidad y Acreditación (ANECA) en junio de 2022.