David MartÃnez Turégano
Former Staff Economist at Bank of Spain,
He holds a M. Sc. in Economics and Finance from Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) of the Bank of Spain.
He has fifteen years’ professional experience in applied macroeconomic analysis, first developed in research departments at private financial institutions –BBVA among others- and later at the institutional level, supporting policy making. He is a former Staff Economist at Bank of Spain.
His research agenda has covered diverse areas, including, among those more relevant, the identification of drivers and obstacles for long-term economic growth, the analysis of determinants for competitiveness and international trade, as well as the assessment of global economic transformations and their implications for demand and production capabilities.
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Europe is losing competitiveness in global value chains while China surges
The European Union owes much of its economic weight to its regional value chain and integration into the global value chain. But the EU’s global value
Who would bet on currency unions after EMU crisis?
The European Monetary Union (EMU) was founded with the idea that nominal convergence would bring real convergence, but structural differences between
Financial inclusion, rather than size, is the key to tackling income inequality
In this paper we assess empirically whether financial inclusion contributes to reducing income inequalitywhen controlling for other key factors, such