VICENTE ROYUELA

Vicente Royuela is Full Professor of Applied Economics at the University of Barcelona, Spain, and member of the Regional Quantitative Analysis research group (AQR-IREA). He is an economist and expert in regional science, urban economics and socio-economic development, with an intense emphasis on statistical and econometrics techniques.

 

He has been member of the EOC Committee of the European Regional Science Association between 2010 and 2021. He was the Coordinator of the 51st ERSA Conference 2011. He is member of the Executive Committee of the Spanish Regional Science Association.

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He has been Visiting Researcher at the University of Reading (UK) 2005-06, at the University of Urbana Champaign (USA) in 2016, invited by REAL, and at the University of Queensland (Australia) in 2019.

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He is Editor in Chief of Investigaciones Regionales / Journal of Regional Research, the flagship journal of the Spanish Reginal Science Association, and Editor of Springer's Series Footprints of Regional Science. He has been managing Editor of REGION  and Associate Editor of Regional Science Policy and Practice, field editor of the Encyclopedia of Quality of Life (Springer), and member of the editorial board of several international scientific journals.

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He has been involved in European and national (Spanish and Italian) research projects. Current Main Reseearcher of the project Global Cities, funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation. He frequently acts as referee for different academic international journals and has also acted as evaluator of international research proposals. Furthermore, he has developed consultancy activity for the OECD, the European Commission and the European Parliament. He is the author of dozens of research works, articles and books, and has acted as guest speaker in international conferences and as the invited lecturer of quantitative methods for regional science and urban economics at several universities.

 

Also involved devoted to research in cultural activities https://investigacionestaurinas.wordpress.com/ (in Spanish)