M. JUAN SAPENA BOLUFER

Research Teams

Disciplines, scientific fields, research areas

• Management & Economics of Innovations
  • Globalization of Innovation, global value chains, and catch-up processes
    • Globalization of Innovation, global value chains, and catch-up processes
• Social Sciences
  • Economics and Business
    • (Applications of) quantitative methods to economics and business
    • (Economy of) Sustainable growth/economic alternatives (circular economy, social and solidarity economy)
    • Economics

Keywords

• International Economics
• Global Value Chains
• Economic Integration
• Sustainable Development
• Industrial policy

Bio

Juan Sapena (juan.sapena@ucv.es) (1970, Jávea). I am Full Professor of Applied Economics at the Catholic University of Valencia. Graduated (1993) and Doctor (1999) in Economics at the University of Valencia, since 2020 I am director of the Department of Economics, Management and Marketing of the Catholic University of Valencia, where I am also, since 2018, director of the “Christeyns” Chair for a Sustainable Economy. Also, at UCV I have served as head of INEDE Business School (2005-2019) and dean at the Faculty of Economics and Business (2008-2019). I am also Professor-Tutor of the Associated Center of the UNED in Valencia (since 1997) and have collaborated as a lecturer at the University of Valencia, the Polytechnic University of Valencia, the Open University of Catalonia and the Santo Tomás University (Colombia).

My scientific production includes numerous articles published in international scientific journals, including the Journal of Financial Stability (JFS), Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money (JIFIM), Computational Economics, Economic Modeling, Business Horizons, Journal of Business Research, or Technological Forecasting and Social Change, among others. I have also contributed to collective works such as Recent Econometric Techniques for Macroeconomic and Financial Data (2021) or the Economics Manual of the European Union (8e-2019 and 9e-2023).

My areas of interest mainly include the economy and international finance, as well as economic integration processes, as well as the sustainability of public and external debt imbalances, and also the design of good governance institutions at the service of corporations and their sustainability. At a methodological level, I have worked in the field of time series analysis, as well as its representation and estimation of models with unobservable variables in the state space. I am currently member of the INTECO Economic Research Group that also includes researchers from the universities of Valencia, Alicante and Jaume.

I belong to different academic associations, such as the Spanish Association of International Economics and Finance, Spanish chapter of the International Economics and Finance Society (since 1999), Royal Economic Society of Friends of the Country (since 2001), Free Association of Economics - ALdE (since 2011), Catholic Research Economists Discussion Organization - CREDO (since 2015) or the International Network for Economic Research - INFER (since 2018). In 2019 I gave the Master Lecture for the opening of the Academic Course at the Catholic University of Valencia, under the title "Economy: The value of a gloomy science").

Degrees

Degree in Economics and Business (University of Valencia, 1993)
PhD in Applied Economics (University of Valencia, 1999)

News about me & my work

Research in progress:
Camarero, M., Sapena, J., & Tamarit, C. (2023). “Introducing sspaneltvp: a code to estimating state-space time varying parameter models in panels. An application to Okun’s law”. Presented at 7th International Workshop on Financial Markets and Nonlinear Dynamics (FMND), 1-2 June 2023, Paris (France).

Viñuela, C., Sapena, J., & Wandosell, G. (2023). “The Central Bank Digital Currency Impact: HowtoPreventBankingDisintermediation”. Presented at Academy of Innovation,Entrepreneurship, and Knowledge Conference (ACIEK 2023) , June 22-23 Madrid (Spain).

Camarero, M., Sapena, J., & Tamarit, C. (2023). “A time-varying estimation of an external reaction function for EMU countries: the role of risk-aversion and financial openness”. Presented in the 25th INFER Annual Conference 2023 / XXth INTECO Workshop on Economic Integration, 6-8 September 2023, Valencia (Spain). Also submitted to the 2023 Annual Meeting of the Austrian Economic Association (NOeG), September 28-29, Salzburg (Austria)

Latest Papers published:

D’Adamo, G., & Sapena, J. (2023). “La nueva política industrial y la transición digital en la UE”. Papeles de economía española, , N. 177 (monográfico “La Europa del Futuro”), pp. 105-118.
https://www.funcas.es/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/PEE_177_Adamo_Sapena.pdf.

Orihuel, E., Sapena, J., Bertó, R., & Navarro, J. (2023). “A pandemic momentum index to manage the spread of COVID-19.”. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 192, 122572. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2023.122572

Projects

Trivia about me

A more updated CV can be found at https://shorturl.at/suEY9