Members

Javier Barbero has a PhD in Economics from Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. After obtaining his PhD in 2016, he joined the Joint Research Center (JRC) of the European Commission, where he carried out scientific advisory work on the impact of European economic and innovation policies. In September 2022, he joined Universidad Autónoma de Madrid as Lecturer in Economics. His research focuses on ​​spatial economic analysis, regional development, innovation policy, and efficiency and productivity analysis.

Inmaculada C. Alvarez Ayuso is professor of Economics Autónoma de Madrid and member of the research of the Oviedo Efficiency Group.
Her main research is focused on using quantitative methods to analyze regional development, spatial economics, innovation, and efficiency and productivity.

José Luis Zofío is a professor of Economics at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, and former Chair of the Department of Economics. He is also Visiting Professor at Erasmus University and Wageningen University and Research, and Visiting Fellow to the Erasmus Research Institute of Management ERIM, where he collaborates with several academics from the Rotterdam School of Management. His research interests are related to measurement theory in economics, in particular the use of index numbers for efficiency and productivity analysis, as well as spatial economics and trade theory. From an empirical perspective he undertakes multidisciplinary research, publishing numerous articles in top fields journals and book chapters related to environmental economics, transportation, innovation, and regional science. Finally, he has made several contributions in the field computational economics, with several packages for Matlab and Julia that focus on data envelopment analysis and regression methods.