Olympia Bover is an economist at the DG Economics and Statistics of the Banco de España where she currently heads the Division of Microeconomic Analysis. Previously, she was a Research Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford, and at the Centre for Economic Performance at the LSE. She is a graduate from the University of Barcelona and holds a Ph.D. from the London School of Economics. Her research includes empirical interests in housing and labour markets, household finance, and consumer behaviour. She also has methodological interests in microeconometrics and survey methods. She is an Associate Member of Nuffield College, Oxford, an International Research Associate at the Institute for Fiscal Studies, London, and a Research Fellow of CEPR. She is a member of the Council of the European Economic Association and she was President of the Spanish Economic Association in 2012.