I am Professor of Economics at Universitat Rovira i Virgili and External Research Fellow of the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics. Currently I am on sabbatical leave at the Free University of Berlin.

I obtained my Ph.D. in 2002 from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona after pursuing undergraduate studies at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum and Université Louis Pasteur Strasbourg. Before joining in 2006 the faculty in Reus, I visited during two years the Kellogg School of Management of Northwestern University and taught at the Universidad de Alicante as well as Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. During my time in Reus, I visited twice the Department of Economics at the University of California, Irvine for longer periods.

From 2009 to 2011, I served as Director of Undergraduate Studies in Economics in the Dean's Office.

My research interests include political economy, public economics, incentives and health economics. My publications have appeared in the Journal of Public Economics and the Journal of the European Economic Association, among others.