Manuel Jaén-García, Visiting Professor

International Studies Program
February 2008 - May 2008

Graduate in Mathematics - University of Granada, 1976
Graduate in Economics - University of Malaga, 1985
Ph.D. in Economics - University of Granada, 1992

Professional Experience

Professor of Economics - University of Almería, 1993-Present
Vice-chancellor of International Relations - University of Almería, 1999-2007
Director of Department of Applied Economics - University of Almería, 1994-1999
Assistant Professor of Economics - University of Granada, Campus of Almería, 1989-1993
Teacher of High School Mathematics - 1978-1989

Specialities:

Economics of Housing
Public Sector Economics

Manuel Jaén-García is the chair for Research Group in Economics of Junta de Andalucía and the Spanish Government. He has been a visiting scholar in the following universities: Universidad de Mar del Plata (Argentina, 1995); Faschochule Kiel (Germany, 1997, 1998); ENIM de Metz (France, 2005, 2006); and Universidad de Xalapa (Mexico, 2004).

His research interest is in the growth of government and its determinants, the redistribution of income, the taxation of housing, and the immigration in Spain. He has done research for Instituto de Estudios Fiscales, Ministerio de Educación, Junta de Andalucia, etc.
His works have been published in Spanish reviews such as Investigaciones Económicas, Hacienda Pública Española, Papeles de Economía Española, Información Comercial Española, and Revista del Instituto de Estudios Económicos, and many books with Septem Editors, Instituto de Estudios Fiscales, Universidad de Almería, Analistas Económicos de Andalucía, etc.