Javier Pérez

Head of the Fiscal Policies Unit of the Research Department at Bank Of Spain

Javier J. Pérez is currently Head of the Fiscal Policies Unit of the Research Department of the Bank of Spain. Before, he was Principal Economist at the Fiscal Policies Division of the European Central Bank and Associate Professor of Macroeconomics at the University Pablo de Olavide (Seville, Spain) and University Complutense (Madrid, Spain). He holds a Ph. D. in Economics from the latter university (with distinction). His research interests include the macroeconomic aspects of fiscal policies, dynamic models, economic forecasting and European integration. In these fields he has published extensively in international journals, as well as in journals in Spanish, national and international books.