Professora Associada UPF
Ms. Vall Castello is an applied economist, who has specialized in econometric and quantitative methods analysis. Her experience is concentrated both in the academic and public sector world working as a researcher, teacher and project coordinator.
Her current research concentrates on the impact of Social Policy and Pensions systems on labor market decisions, particularly in the Spanish context. She has also studied the effects of labor promotion measures for disabled workers.
As researcher, she was part of two projects at the University of Cambridge focusing, on the one hand, on financial innovation in European and Asian countries and its effects on lending and savings behavior and economic growth and, on the other hand, on the consequences of financial flows and investment on some developing Latin-American and Asian countries. She has also taught in universities in Spain and Mexico and has worked on several European Union projects in the fields of social protection, economic and financial integration, culture and education.
She has been a Marie Curie Research Fellow in the European PhD on Social Protection Policy at the Maastricht Graduate School of Governance for three years and has spent research visiting periods at the Institute for Economic and Social Research of the University of Essex, at the Toulouse School of Economics and at the State University of New York at Stony Brook with a Fulbright-Schuman grant. She has just defended her PhD (July 2010) at Maastricht University and has been awarded a Robert Solow Postdoctoral Fellowship to be developed at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona.
Office: 23.111 Mercè Rodoreda Building, Research Centre for Economy and Health (CRES), Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Ciutadella Campus.
Email: judit.vall@upf.edu
Website: http://juditvallcastello.wordpress.com/