Emeritus Professor – Full professor of Financial Economics
Department of Busines Economics –  Office B-315.

ORCID: 0000-0002-5996-8628

Joaquim.Verges@uab.es  – +34 93581 1210      
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB)
Campus Bellaterra, Edifici B, 08193 Cerdanyola (Barcelona) Spain

RESEARCH LINES

  – Economics as an explanatory  discipline; epistemology.  Empirical contrasting of Economics’ theories

– Comparative efficiency of Public Owned Enterprises (POE) and Private Enterprises
  – Privatisations: Causes, aims, and  governments’ objectives.- Results or impact of privatisations
  – Efficiency: Indicators, and Productivity measurement
  

– Director of the UAB’s Research Group INCERS: Innovation and Competitiveness of Energy from Renewable Sources

– Coordinator of the European project DIDSOLIT-PB, a strategic project of the ENPI-CBCMED Programme of the EC

TEACHING EXPERIENCE


Undergraduate courses.- Faculty of Economics and Business(UAB):
        . Economia i Gestió de l’Empresa Pública (EGEP);  (Public Owned Enterprises: Economics and Management)
         . Control i Avaluació de l’Eficiencia  (CAE); (Management’ Control and Efficiency Assessment)
 Doctorate (PhD) courses.- Department of Business Economics& Administration:
        . Empresas Públicas, y Regulación;  (POE’s Management, and Regulation)  

       . Research Seminar: Training graduatel candidates on Doctoral Thesis’ Research Projects

TOPICS OF INTEREST

   –  Economics, applying the scientific method / The New Economics / Economics of Real Societies
   –  Energy and sustainability.- Comparative real costs (social costs: microec. & macroec.) of alternatives to oil
      (nuclear, eólics, termosolar, fotosolar, agrofuels).
   –  Globalizatión.- Opening markets for goods, capitals and companies: Effects on less-developped countries.

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