JUAN MORA

Professor (“Catedrático de Universidad”)
Departamento de Fundamentos del Análisis Económico
Universidad de Alicante
Apartado de Correos 99, 03080 Alicante, Spain.

Phone: +34 965 90 36 14
Fax: +34 965 90 38 98
E-mail: juan@merlin.fae.ua.es

Education

• B.Sc. in Mathematics, Universidad de Murcia, June 1989.
• Master in Economics, CEMFI, June 1991
• Ph.D. in Economics, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, June 1994.

Research fields

• Nonparametric Statistics
• Econometric Theory
• Applied Econometrics

Academic Experience

• March 2010 - Present, Professor, Universidad de Alicante.
• Sep 1998 - Feb 2010, Associate Professor, Universidad de Alicante.
• Oct 1994 - Aug 1998, Assistant Professor, Universidad de Alicante.
• Oct 1993 - Sep 1994, Teaching Assistant, Universidad de Salamanca.
• Oct 1991 - Sep 1993, Teaching and Research Assistant, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.

Refereed Publications

• "Counterfactual distributions of wages via quantile regression with endogeneity" (with Elena Martínez-Sanchís and Ilker Kandemir), Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, forthcoming.

• "Analyzing motives for money-transfers within families: the role of transfers for education" (with Ana I. Moro-Egido), Empirical Economics, forthcoming.

• "Comparing distributions with bootstrap techniques: an application to global solar radiation " (with Llanos Mora-López). Mathematics and Computers in Simulation (2010), Vol. 81, 811-819.

• "Flexible estimation of wage distributions in the presence of covariates" (with Antonia Febrer). Computational Statistics & Data Analysis (2009), Vol. 53, 2189-2200.

• "Specification tests for the distribution of errors in nonparametric regression: a martingale approach" (with Alicia Pérez-Alonso). Journal of Nonparametric Statistics (2009), Vol. 21, 441-452.

• "On specification testing of ordered discrete choice models" (with Ana I. Moro-Egido). Journal of Econometrics (2008), Vol. 143, 191-205.

• "Comparing distribution functions of errors in linear models: a nonparametric approach". Statistics & Probability Letters (2005), Vol. 73, 425-432.

• "Income and wealth distributions along the business cycle: implications from the neoclassical growth model” (with Lilia Maliar and Serguei Maliar). The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics, (2005), Vol. 5 (Topics), Article 15, 1-26.

• "Modeling time series of climatic parameters with probabilistic finite automata" (with Llanos Mora-López, Rafael Morales-Bueno and Mariano Sidrach-de-Cardona). Environmental Modelling & Software (2005), Vol. 20, 753-760.

• "On the performance of nonparametric specification tests in regression models" (with Daniel Miles). Computational Statistics & Data Analysis (2003), Vol. 42, 477-490.

• "A nonparametric test for serial independence of regression errors" (with Miguel A. Delgado). Biometrika (2000), Vol. 87, 228-234.

• "Modelling conditional heteroskedasticity: application to the ‘IBEX-35’ stock-return index" (with Angel León). Spanish Economic Review (1999), Vol. 1, 215-238.

• "Testing non-nested semiparametric models: an application to Engel curves specification" (with Miguel A. Delgado). Journal of Applied Econometrics (1998), Vol. 13, 145-162.

• "Nonparametric and semiparametric estimation with discrete regressors" (with Miguel A. Delgado). Econometrica (1995), Vol. 63, 1477-1484.

• "On asymptotic inferences in nonparametric and semiparametric models with discrete and mixed regressors" (with Miguel A. Delgado). Investigaciones Económicas (1995), Vol. 19, 435-467.

• "Efficiency of financial markets: a test with nonparametric risk modelling " (in Spanish, with abstract in English). Revista Española de Economía (1992), Vol. Monográfico Mercados Financieros, 33-55.

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Modified: February, 2012.
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