Fernando del Rio

Currently, I am an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain). I am PhD. In Economics by Universtity Carlos III (Madrid, Spain) and previously I have been Assistant Professor in this same university and in University of Vigo (Spain). I have also been researcher in CEPREMAP (París, Francia) and I enjoyed of a Marie Curie Research Grant of the European Union. My research focused on the effects of technical change on productivity, employment and income distribution and on the relationship between institutions and economic performance. Currently, my research is focused, on one hand, on the incidence of child work among the sons of farmers in developing countries and, on the other hand, on the analysis of the causes of the Great Recession.

Relevant papers

del Río, F. and Lores, F-X. (2019), “The decline in capital efficiency and labour share”, Economica, 86(344), 635-662, https://doi:10.1111/ecca.12279.

del Río, F. (2019), “Property Rights, Predation and Productivity”,  The Scandinavian Journal of Economics,121(3), 1154-1188,  https://doi.org/10.1111/sjoe.12294

del Río, F. (2010), “Investment-specific technical progress, capital obsolescence and job creation”, Labour Economics, 17, 248–257. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.labeco.2009.09.005.

Boucekkine, R., del Río, F. and Licandro, O. (2005), “Obsolescence and Modernization in the Growth Process “, Journal of Development Economics, 77, 153-171.

Boucekkine, R., del Río, F. and Licandro, O. (1999) “Endogenous vs Exogenously Driven Fluctuations in Vintage Capital Models”, Journal of Economic Theory, 88, 161-187.