Laura Mayoral

Researcher in Economics

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Research

 
 
 
 

Social Divisions and Conflict,  with Joan Esteban

Forthcoming, Handbook of Economics of Conflict, Edited by M.Morelli, D. Ray and T. Sjostrom

Painting: Diego Rivera, "El hombre controlador del universo"

Floods, Droughts and Environmental Circumscription in Early State Development: The Case of Ancient Egypt, with Ola Olsson   

Forthcoming, Journal of Economic Growth

Groups in Conflict: Private and Public Prizes, with Debraj Ray.

Journal of Development Economics 154

Illustration: Albert Uderzo

 

Group Inequality and the Severity of Civil Conflict, with John Huber.

Journal of Economic Growth 24, 1--41

 

Photo: Roman Laurendeau

Ethnicity and Conflict: Theory and Facts, with Joan Esteban and Debraj Ray

Science 336, 858.

 

Photo: Antonio Gibotta

Ethnicity and Conflict: An empirical Study, with Joan Esteban and Debraj Ray.

American Economic Review 102, pp. 1302-42. Online Appendix

Photo: Brent Stirton

Liberté, Egalité...Religiosité, with Joan Esteban and Gilat Levy

Journal of Public Economics 164, 241-253

Painting by Eugene Delacroix

Personal Liberties, Religiosity and Effort, with Joan Esteban and Gilat Levy.

European Economic Review, 120.

 
Photo: Cristina García Rodero

Religiosity and Economic Performance: The Role of Personal Liberties. With Joan Esteban.

In Advances in the Economics of ReligionInternational Economic Association Series, Edited by Jean-Paul Carvalho, Sriya Iyer and Jared Rubin. Palgrave.

A Politico-Economic Model of Public Expenditure and Income Taxation, with Joan Esteban.

SERIE(s) 10, 479-507.

Painting by Caravaggio

Model selection, uncertainty and the PPP puzzle, with L. Gadea.

Oxford Economic Papers  67, pp. 614-633.

Aggregate Real Exchange Rate persistence through the lens of sectoral data, with L. Gadea .

Journal of Monetary Economics 58, 290-304. Online appendix

Aggregation is not the solution: the PPP puzzle strikes back, with L. Gadea.

Journal of Applied Econometrics 24, 875-894

A Fractional Dickey-Fuller test for unit roots, with J. Dolado and J. Gonzalo

Econometrica 70, 1963-2006

A New Minimum Distance Estimation of ARFIMA processes

Econometrics Journal, 10, 1, 124-148

Wald Tests of I(1) against I(d) alternatives: some new properties and an extension to processes with trending components, with J. Dolado and J. Gonzalo.

Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics, 12, nº 4, article 1.

An overview of new results on simple Wald Tests for Fractional Roots, with J. Dolado and J. Gonzalo

The methodology and practice of econometrics (eds. J. Castle and N. Shepard)

Testing for fractional integration versus short memory and structural breaks

The Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics 74, pp. 278-305.

Further evidence on the statistical propertis of real GNP

The Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics 68, 901-920.

The Persistence of inflation in OECD countries, with Lola Gadea

International Journal of Central Banking nº 4, 51-104

Long Memory in Spanish Political Poll Data, with J. Dolado and J. Gonzalo.

Journal of Applied Econometrics 18, 137-155.

Teaching

Selected Courses

April-May 2023

Topics in Applied Econometrics for Public Policy

Master in Economics of Public Policy

Barcelona School of Economics

November 2021

Introduction to Time Series Analysis

Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs, European Comission

February-March 2019

Time Series Analysis

PhD Level

IDEA, Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona
May-June 2018

Introduction to Time Series Analysis and Forecasting

PhD

INSEAD
May-June 2016

Introduction to Time Series Analysis and Forecasting

PhD

INSEAD
March-May 2013

Statistics for Social and Behavioral Sciencies

Undergratuate Level

New York University, Abu Dhabi

January-February 2012

Introduction to Time Series Analysis

Msc in Macroeconomic Policy Barcelona Graduate School of Economics

January-February 2011

Introduction to Time Series Analysis

Msc in Macroeconomic Policy Barcelona Graduate School of Economics

May-June 2009

Applied Time Series Analysis

PhD in Economics

Paris School of Economics

 

 

February-March 2020

Econometrics A

Introduction to Econometrics, PhD Level

INSEAD
January-February 2019

Econometrics A

PhD Level

INSEAD

January-February 2018

Quantitative and Stastistical Methods

Msc in Macroeconomic Policy

Barcelona Graduate School of Economics

May 2015

Instrumental Variable Estimation and its Limitations

PhD in Economics

University of Gothenburg, Sweden

January-February 2013

Time Series and Forecasting

Msc in Macroeconomic Policy

Barcelona Graduate School of Economics

Fall 2010

Time Series Analysis

PhD IDEA

Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona

Winter 2010

Introduction to Time Series Analysis

Msc in Macroeconomic Policy

Barcelona Graduate School of Economics

Fall 2008

Introduction to Economics

PhD IDEA

Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona

About Me

I am a tenured researcher at the Institute for Economic Analysis (CSIC) and research affiliate at the Barcelona School of Economics.

I am interested in political economy, the analysis of conflict, economic development, machine learning and econometrics. My work has been published in leading journals such as Science, American Economic Review, Econometrica, Journal of Monetary Economics, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Economic Growth, and the International Economic Review, among others.

 

 

 

 


 

Contact Me

Get In Touch

My Contact Details

  • Email
  • laura.mayoral@iae.csic.es
  • Phone
  • +34 935 806 612
  • Fax
  • +34 935 801 452
  • Address
  • Institute for Economic Analysis
    Campus UAB, 08193 Bellaterra
  • Barcelona, Spain

 

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