Events

Territorial privileges in Spain

Luis Garicano, Jesús Fernández-Villaverde and Francisco de la Torre.

The Rafael del Pino Foundation is organising, on 19 May 2025 at 7 p.m., the meeting "Territorial Privileges in Spain" in which the following will participate Luis Garicano, Jesús Fernández-Villaverde and Francisco de la Torreon the occasion of the presentation of the book "La factura del cupo catalán. Territorial privileges versus citizenship" by Jesús Fernández-Villaverde and Francisco de la Torre.

The event will take place according to the following programme:

19.10 Welcome

19.10 Intervention by Luis Garicano

19.15 Intervention by Jesús Fernández-Villaverde

19.35 Dialogue "Privileges of the territories in Spain vis-à-vis citizenship" . Luis Garicano, Jesús Fernández-Villaverde and Francisco de la Torre.

Jesús Fernández-Villaverde isHoward Marks Presidential Professor of Economics and Director of the Penn Initiative for the Study of the Markets at the University of Pennsylvania, Fellow of the Econometric Society and member of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), of the "group of one hundred" and of the editorial board of relevant national and international publications. He holds a degree in Law and Economics and Business Administration from ICADE and a PhD in Economics from the University of Minnesota.

Francisco de la Torre holds a degree in Law and a degree in Economics and Business Studies from ICADE. In 1999, he passed the competitive examination for the post of Tax Inspector in 1999, coming first in his class. He has worked as an Administrator of the Tax Agency and also as an Inspector. He was elected Member of Parliament in the general elections in December 2012. Subsequently, he was elected Chairman of the Budget Committee of the Congress of Deputies. He was also spokesman for Ciudadanos in the Finance and Public Function Committee and deputy spokesman in the Economy, Industry and Competitiveness Committee. In January 2017 he was elected as head of taxation in the National Executive Committee of Ciudadanos. He resigned in July 2019 from the executive committee of Cs. In September 2019, he re-entered the Administration, joining the Ministry of Justice as a tax inspector in the international arbitration unit of the State Attorney's Office. After spending three years in the technical office of the Director General of the Tax Agency as a consultant inspector and coordinator, he joined the Central Delegation of Large Taxpayers in December 2024. He was secretary general and spokesperson for the Professional Organisation of Tax Inspectors between 2008 and 2012.

Luis Garicano is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Public Policy at the London School of Economics. He began his academic career at the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago, where he obtained the rank of Senior Lecturer in Economics and Strategy after ten years on the faculty, and subsequently at the London School of Economics, where he has been a Senior Lecturer in Economics and Strategy in the school's Economics and Management Departments and Director of the Economics and Management Strategy Group. He has also been a visiting professor at other institutions, including MIT, Columbia Business School and the London Business School. He has held positions as an economist at the European Commission and at McKinsey & Company, where he has also been a professor at the FEDEA foundation. His research has appeared in leading international academic journals in economics including The Quarterly Journal of Economics, The Journal of Political Economy, The American Economic Review y The Review of Economic Studies. For a few years, Garicano left academia and became an MEP between 2019 and August 2022. During his parliamentary mandate, he was vice-president of the Renew Europe Group, responsible for economic affairs, and vice-president of the European political party Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE). Luis Garicano holds a degree in Economics and Law from the University of Valladolid, a Master's degree in European Economic Studies from the College of Europe in Bruges and a Master's and PhD in Economics from the University of Chicago.

If you would like to attend, please contact the Foundation by e-mail at confirmaciones@frdelpino.es.

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