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RICARDO FLORES-FILLOL
Spanish, 38 years old
Departament d'Economia and CREIP
Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV)
Avinguda de la Universitat 1
43204 Reus (Tarragona), SPAIN
Tel.: +34 977 75 98 51
Fax: +34 977 75 89 07
Email: ricardo.flores@urv.cat
URL: gandalf.fcee.urv.es/professors/RicardoFlores
CURRENT AND PAST POSITIONS
2016 – Present
Universitat Rovira i Virgili of Tarragona (URV), Spain
Associate Professor (“Agregat Serra Húnter”)
Committee members: Germà Bel, Marc Ivaldi, Anna Matas, Bernd Theilen, and
Erik Verhoef
2007 – 2016
Universitat Rovira i Virgili of Tarragona (URV), Spain
Assistant Professor
2014 – Present
Secretary of the Research Center on Industrial and Public Economics (CREIP) at
URV
EDUCATION
2004 – 2007
IDEA, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Spain
Ph.D in Economics
Dissertation advisor: Inés Macho-Stadler
Committee members: Nicolas Boccard, Jan K. Brueckner, Ramon Caminal, Xavier
Martínez-Giralt, and Joel Sandonís
2002 – 2004
IDEA (UAB), Spain
M. Phil in Economics
Dissertation advisor: Inés Macho-Stadler
1996 – 2002
Universitat de València, Spain
B.Sc in Economics
Special award: best 2.5% (academic year 2001/2002)
2000 – 2001
College of Europe, Belgium
M.Sc in European Economic Studies
Dissertation advisor: Ch. de Boissieu
1998 – 2000
Université de Nantes, France
B.Sc in Economics
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Industrial Organization, Economics of Transportation, and Urban Economics
ACADEMIC VISITS
2008 - 3 months
Department of Economics at the University of California-Irvine (USA)
2006 - 3 months
Department of Economics at the University of California-Irvine (USA)
PUBLICATIONS
 “Airport congestion and airline network structure” (joint with Xavier Fageda), forthcoming in James
H. Peoples Jr, Ed., Advances in Airline Economics vol.6, Emerald Books (ISSN: 2212-1609)
 “How do airlines react to airport congestion? The role of networks” (joint with Xavier Fageda),
2016, Regional Science and Urban Economics 56, 73-81
 “Organization of land surrounding airports: The case of the aerotropolis” (joint with Miquel-Àngel
Garcia-López and Rosella Nicolini), 2016, Land Economics 92 (1), 57-81
 “A note on optimal airline networks under airport congestion” (joint with Xavier Fageda), 2015,
Economics Letters 128, 90-94
 “Domestic and international research joint ventures: The effect of collusion” (joint with Guiomar
Ibáñez-Zárate and Bernd Theilen), 2014, Economics Letters 122 (1), 79-83
 “Airline consolidation and the distribution of traffic between primary and secondary hubs” (joint
with Volodymyr Bilotkach and Xavier Fageda), 2013, Regional Science and Urban Economics
43 (6), 951-963 (25th most downloaded paper October-December 2013)
 “On the optimal distribution of traffic of network airlines” (joint with Xavier Fageda), 2012,
European Economic Review 56 (6), 1164-1179
 “Air services on thin routes: Regional versus low-cost airlines” (joint with Xavier Fageda), 2012,
Regional Science and Urban Economics 42 (4), 702-714
 “Endogenous mergers of complements with mixed bundling” (joint with Rafael Moner-Colonques),
2011, Review of Industrial Organization 39 (3), 231-251
 “Congested hubs”, 2010, Transportation Research Part B 44 (3), 358-370 (special issue on
airport congestion pricing)
 “Scheduled service versus private transportation: The role of distance” (joint with Volodymyr
Bilotkach and Xavier Fageda), 2010, Regional Science and Urban Economics 40 (1), 60-72
 “Airline competition and network structure”, 2009, Transportation Research Part B 43 (10), 966983 (most downloaded paper October-December 2009)
 “Airline alliances: Parallel or complementary?”, 2009, Applied Economics Letters 16 (6), 585590
 “Strategic formation of airline alliances” (joint with Rafael Moner-Colonques), 2007, Journal of
Transport Economics and Policy 41 (3), 427-449
 “Airline schedule competition” (joint with Jan K. Brueckner), 2007, Review of Industrial
Organization 30 (3), 161-177
OTHER COMPLETED RESEARCH PAPERS
 “Platform pricing and consumer foresight: The case of airports” (joint with Alberto Iozzi and
Tommaso Valletti), 2015
 “Teamwork and delegation of decisions within the firm” (joint with Susana Iranzo and Ferran
Mane), 2015
PUBLICATIONS IN NON-SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS
 “Problem sets for Industrial Organization” (joint with María José Pérez Lacasta), in Catalan, 2014,
Publicacions URV (ISBN: 978-84-697-0641-1)
 “Problem sets for Introductory Economics in a Tourism degree” (joint with Judith Turrión), in
Catalan, 2010, Publicacions URV (ISBN: 978-84-693-4804-8)
 “Current applications of the theory of market failures (in Economics)”, in Spanish, 2009, @tic
Revista d’Innovació Educativa 3, 67-71
MEDIA (hyperlinks active on my website)
 Web EURAM, in Catalan, 2016, “The possible exhaustion of the low-cost business”
(26/May/2016)
 Magazine El Temps, in Catalan, 2015, “Does Castelló need an airport?” (01/October/2015)
 Radio Cadena Ser (“Ser Consumidor”), in Spanish, 2015, “On the IATA’s suggestion of reducing
the maximum size of hand luggage” (21/June/2015 at 06:00 am - from minute 18:30)
 Radio Cadena Ser (“Ser Consumidor”), in Spanish, 2015, “The reduction of aircraft seat size”
(03/May/2015 at 06:00 am - from minute 24:30)
 Radio Cadena Ser (“Ser Consumidor”), in Spanish, 2014, “The evolution of aircraft seat size”
(07/December/2014 at 06:00 am - from minute 21:30)
 Radio Cadena Ser (“Ser Consumidor”), in Spanish, 2014, “Are on-line airfares transparent?”
(21/September/2014 at 06:00 am - from minute 26:00)
 Radio Cadena Ser (“Ser Consumidor”), in Spanish, 2014, “On-line flight ticket reservations”
(20/July/2014 at 07:00 am - from minute 09:30)
 Radio Cadena Ser (“Hoy por Hoy”), in Spanish, 2014, “Which is the best moment to purchase a
flight ticket?” (02/July/2014 at 10:00 am - from minute 16:15)

Web VilaWeb, in Catalan, 2014, “Which is the best moment to purchase a flight ticket?”
(10/April/2014)
 TV TV3 (“Telenotícies Vespre”), in Catalan, 2014, “How and why airline prices change?”
(09/February/2014 at 09:00 pm - from minute 23:20)
 Newspaper Indicador de Economía, in Spanish, 2013, “High speed rail and inequality”
(February/2013, volume 156, page 19)
TEACHING
2016 – 2017
(UOC)
Markets and Conduct (1 group)
2016 – 2017
(URV)
Introduction to Economics (1 group)
Logistics, Transportation, and Distribution (1 group)
Industrial Organization (1 group)
Research Techniques (1 group)
2015 – 2016
(UOC)
Markets and Conduct (1 group)
2015 – 2016
(URV)
Introduction to Economics (1 group)
Economics of Transportation (1 group)
Industrial Organization (1 group)
Research Techniques (1 group)
2014 – 2015
(UOC)
Markets and Conduct (2 groups)
2014 – 2015
(URV)
Introduction to Economics (1 group)
Economics of Transportation (1 group)
Industrial Organization (1 group)
Research Techniques (1 group)
2013 – 2014
(UOC)
Markets and Conduct (2 groups)
2013 – 2014
(URV)
Introduction to Economics (1 group)
Game Theory (1 group)
Industrial Organization (1 group)
Research Techniques (1 group)
2012 – 2013
(UOC)
Markets and Conduct (2 groups)
2012 – 2013
(URV)
Introduction to Economics (1 group)
Game Theory (1 group)
Industrial Organization (1 group)
Research Techniques (1 group)
2011 – 2012
(UOC)
Markets and Conduct (2 groups)
2011 – 2012
(URV)
Introduction to Economics (2 groups)
Public Economics (1 group)
Industrial Organization (1 group)
2010 – 2011
(UOC)
Markets and Conduct (2 groups)
2010 – 2011
(URV)
Introduction to Economics (2 groups)
Public Economics (1 group)
Industrial Organization (1 group)
2009 – 2010
(UOC)
Introduction to Microeconomics (1 group)
2009 – 2010
(URV)
Introduction to Economics (3 groups)
Public Economics (1 group)
Game Theory (1 group)
2008 – 2009
(URV)
Introduction to Economics (3 groups)
Public Economics (1 group)
Game Theory (1 group)
2007 – 2008
(URV)
Topics in Microeconomics (1 group)
Public Economics (1 group)
2006 – 2007
(UAB)
Microeconomics I (3 groups)
Introduction to Economics (1 group)
2005 – 2006
(UAB)
Introduction to Economics (4 groups)
2004 – 2005
(UAB)
Introduction to Economics (2 groups)
2003 – 2004
(UAB)
Macroeconomics I (1 group)
Macroeconomics II (1 group)
2002 – 2003
(UAB)
Macroeconomics II (2 groups)
AWARDS, GRANTS, AND SCHOLARSHIPS
2013
2nd recognition of teaching activity (“quinquenio”), AQU and URV
2011
Accreditation as Associate Professor (“Agregat” AQU)
2010
Recognition of research activity (“sexenio”), AQU and URV
2010
Accreditation as Associate Professor (“Titular de Universidad” ANECA)
2009
1st recognition of teaching activity (“quinquenio”), AQU and URV
2008
Grant to visit the Department of Economics at the University of California-Irvine
(USA), awarded by Fundación Banco Herrero/Banc Sabadell
2006
Grant to visit the Department of Economics at the University of California-Irvine
(USA), awarded by the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science
2005
Fellowship to the project “The impact of airports in the formation of industrial
parks”, awarded by IIVEE (Institut Ignasi Villalonga d’Economia i Empresa), Spain
2004
Fellowship to the project “Strategic formation of airline alliances”, awarded by IVIE
(Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas), Spain
2004 – 2007
Predoctoral fellowship (FPI), awarded by the Spanish Ministry of Education and
Science
2003 – 2004
Predoctoral fellowship, awarded by the Ramón Areces Foundation, Spain
2002
Predoctoral fellowship (beca propia), awarded by UAB, Spain
2000 – 2001
College of Europe scholarship, awarded by the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs
1998 – 2000
Erasmus scholarship
RESEARCH PROJECTS
 Project 2014SGR631 (2014-2018): “Grup de recerca en organització i decisió econòmiques
(GRODE)”, awarded by Generalitat de Catalunya (Head Researcher: Carolina Manzano)
 Project ECO2013-42884-P (2014-2016): “Diseño institucional bajo la influencia de factores
políticos”, awarded by Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (Head Researcher:
Bernd Theilen)
 Project Areces (2010-2012): “Competencia, regulación y efectos de red en el transporte aéreo”,
awarded by Ramón Areces Foundation (Head Researcher: Xavier Fageda)
 Project ECO2010-19733 (2010-2012): “Economic governance: instituciones privadas y públicas”,
awarded by Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (Head Researcher: Matthias Dahm)
 Project ECO2010-17113 (2010-2012): “Provisión de incentivos en instituciones económicas”,
awarded by Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (Head Researcher: Bernd Theilen)
 Project 2009SGR900 (2009-2013): “Grup de recerca en organització i decisió econòmiques
(GRODE)”, awarded by Generalitat de Catalunya (Head Researcher: Antonio Quesada)
 Project SEJ2007-67891 (2007-2011): “Impacto de la innovación en producto sobre la demanda
de cualificaciones: aspectos teóricos, evidencia empírica y una aplicación al sector turístico”,
awarded by Spanish Ministry of Education and Science (Head Researcher: Ferran Mañé Vernet)
 Project SEJ2006-00538 (2006-2008): “Organizaciones y mercados: incentivos y regulación”,
awarded by Spanish Ministry of Education and Science (Head Researcher: Inés Macho-Stadler)
 Project 2005SGR00949 (2005-2008): “Grup de recerca en organització i decisió econòmiques
(GRODE)”, awarded by Generalitat de Catalunya (Head Researcher: Antonio Quesada)
 Project 2005SGR00836 (2005-2008): “Centre de recerca en economia de les organitzacions
(CREO)”, awarded by Generalitat de Catalunya (Head Researcher: David Pérez-Castrillo)
THESIS ADVISOR
Guiomar Ibáñez-Zárate (June 22, 2015): “Innovation, market structure, and cooperative R&D
strategies”; thesis committee members: Bruno Cassiman, Jo Seldeslachts, and Carolina Manzano
MASTER THESIS ADVISOR
 Guiomar Ibáñez-Zárate (2011): “Cooperative and noncooperative R&D and production in duopoly
with spillovers and international trade”
THESIS COMMITTEE
 Changmin Jian (2014): “Economic and policy analysis on air and rail transport”, University of
British Columbia - External Examiner
 Jorge Valido Quintana (2013): “Financing mechanisms and competition in the transport sector”,
Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
 Cristina Pardo García (2012): “Complementary and substitute goods: equilibrium mergers and
consumers multi-homing in oligopoly models”, Universitat de València
 Valentín Lago Rodríguez (2012): “Incentives, services quality, and regulation: an application to
the airline industry”, Universitat de València
MASTER THESIS COMMITTEE
 Mariela Fuks (2009): “The demand for PCs in American countries”, URV
 Carla Daniela Calá (2009): “Spatial issues on firm demography: an analysis for Argentina”, URV
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
2016
 20th Air Transport Research Society (ATRS) World Conference, Rhodes,
Greece
 18th INFER Annual Conference, Reus, Spain
 2ona Trobada URV-UA, Reus, Spain
 2nd Meeting on Transport Economics and Infrastructure, Barcelona, Spain
2015
 International Conference on Regional Science 2015, URV, Spain
 Workshop ANAECO 2015, València, Spain
 ITEA Annual Conference 2015, Oslo, Norway
 OPTION Conference entitled “Industrial Organization in Transport Network
Markets”, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2014
 XXIX Jornadas de Economía Industrial, Barcelona, Spain
 German Aviation Research Society (GARS) Workshop entitled “Airlines in
European Sky: Strategies and Challenges”, Paris, France
2013
 17th Air Transport Research Society (ATRS) World Conference, Bergamo,
Italy
2012
 Kuhmo Nectar Conference on Transportation Economics 2012, Berlin,
Germany
2011
 XXXVI Simposio de la Asociación Española de Economía, Málaga, Spain
 XXVI Jornadas de Economía Industrial, València, Spain
 Workshop IDEA 20: 20 years of the International Doctorate in Economic
Analysis, Barcelona, Spain
2010
 XII European Network on Industrial Policy (EUNIP) International Conference,
URV, Spain
2009
 XXXIV Simposio de la Asociación Española de Economía, València, Spain
 2nd FEDEA-Abertis Workshop on Transportation Economics, Barcelona,
Spain
2008
 XXXIII Simposio de Análisis Económico, Zaragoza, Spain
 XXIII Jornadas de Economía Industrial, URV, Spain
 Government Restructuring: Governments and Markets,
Complutense at Harvard University, Cambridge MA, USA
2007
Real
Colegio
 Workshop on Transportation Economics, València, Spain
 XXXIV Congress of the European Association for Research in Industrial
Economics (EARIE), València, Spain
 5th International Industrial Organization Conference (IIOC), Savannah GA,
USA
 2nd PhD Presentation Meeting, London School of Economics and Political
Science (LSE), United Kingdom
2006
 XXXI Simposio de Análisis Económico, Oviedo, Spain
 XXII Jornadas de Economía Industrial, IESE of Barcelona, Spain
 XXXIII Congress of the European Association for Research in Industrial
Economics (EARIE), Amsterdam, The Netherlands
 Kuhmo Nectar Conference on Transportation Economics 2006, Helsinki,
Finland
 ENTER Jamboree, Stockholm, Sweden
2005
 XXX Simposio de Análisis Económico, Murcia, Spain
 XXI Jornadas de Economía Industrial, Bilbao, Spain
SEMINAR PRESENTATIONS
2015
 Seminar at Universitat de Barcelona, Spain (presenting “Platform pricing and
consumer foresight: The case of airports”)
2013
 Seminar at UAB (Barcelona), Spain (presenting “A note on optimal airline
networks under airport congestion”)
2009
 Seminar at Universidad de Vigo, Spain (presenting “Congested hubs”)
 Seminar at Universidad de Murcia, Spain (presenting “Congested hubs”)
 Seminar at FEDEA (Madrid), Spain (presenting “Scheduled service versus
private transportation: The role of distance”)
2008
 Seminar at Universitat de València, Spain (presenting “Congested hubs”)
 Seminar at University of Macedonia (Thessaloniki), Greece (presenting
“Congested hubs”)
2007
 Seminar at Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain (presenting
“Airline competition and network structure”)
 Seminar at URV (Tarragona), Spain (presenting “Airline competition and
network structure”)
 Seminar at Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium (presenting “Airline
competition and network structure”)
2006
 Seminar at Universitat d’Alacant, Spain (presenting “Airline competition and
network structure”)
 Microeconomics workshop at UAB (Barcelona), Spain (presenting “Airline
competition and network structure”)
 Seminar at Universitat de València, Spain (presenting “Airline schedule
competition”)
 Seminar at Universidad de Granada, Spain (presenting “Airline schedule
competition”)
 Microeconomics workshop at UAB (Barcelona), Spain (presenting “Airline
schedule competition”)
2005
 Microeconomics workshop at UAB (Barcelona), Spain (presenting “Strategic
formation of airline alliances”)
OTHER CONFERENCES
2017
 ITEA Annual Conference 2017, Barcelona, Spain (local and scientific
committee)
2016
 18th INFER Annual Conference, Reus, Spain (local committee)
 PhD-Student Workshop on Industrial and Public Economics (WIPE) 2016,
CREIP and URV, Spain (scientific committee)
2015
 International Conference on Regional Science 2015, URV, Spain (local
committee)
 PhD-Student Workshop on Industrial and Public Economics (WIPE) 2015,
CREIP and URV, Spain (scientific committee and discussant)
2014
 I Transport Economics Meeting, IEB and Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
(scientific committee)
 PhD-Student Workshop on Industrial and Public Economics (WIPE) 2014,
CREIP and URV, Spain (scientific committee)
2013
 PhD-Student Workshop in Industrial and Public Economics (WIPE) 2013,
CREIP and URV, Spain (discussant)
2012
 Conference on Airports Competition, IEB and Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
(discussant)
2010
 Kuhmo Nectar Conference on Transportation Economics 2010, València,
Spain (participant)
 European Network on Industrial Policy (EUNIP) International Conference
2010, URV, Spain (local committee)
2009
 I Jornadas de Docencia en Economía, Granada, Spain (presenter)
2008
 1st Madrid Workshop on Transportation Economics at FEDEA, Spain
(scientific committee)
 XXIII Jornadas de Economía Industrial, URV, Spain (local committee)
 Workshop on “The process of innovation: skills, firms and locational
advantage”, URV, Spain (participant)
2007
 Allied Social Science Associations (ASSA) meeting of the American Economic
Association (AEA) in Chicago, USA (job-market candidate)
2005
 III Barcelona Workshop in Economic Geography, Universitat de Barcelona
and Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain (discussant)
 ENTER Jamboree, Free University of Brussels, Belgium (discussant)
REFEREE FOR
RAND Journal of Economics, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Industrial Economics (2),
Management Science, Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, Regional Science and
Urban Economics (2), Review of Industrial Organization, Canadian Journal of Economics (2), Journal
of Regulatory Economics (3), Economics of Transportation (4), Transportation Research Part B (6),
Transportation Research Part A (2), Transportation Research Part E, Journal of Transport
Economics and Policy (3), Papers in Regional Science, Review of Network Economics, Networks
and Spatial Economics, Information Economics and Policy, Transport Policy, Australian Economic
Papers, European Journal of Transport and Infrastructure Research, SERIEs, Tijdschrift voor
Economische en Sociale Geografie, Revista de Economía Aplicada (2), Cuadernos Económicos de
ICE, Revista Cuadernos de Economía, and @tic
Book reviewer in Economics for Routledge
Referee for research projects: ANEP - Spain (2) and Research Grants Council - Hong Kong
LANGUAGES
Spanish and Catalan (native), English and French (fluent)
REFERENCES
Professor INÉS MACHO-STADLER
Departament d'Economia i d'Història Econòmica
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB)
Edifici B, Campus de la UAB
08193 Bellaterra (Barcelona), SPAIN
Tel.: +34 93 581 18 12
Fax: +34 93 581 24 61
Email: ines.macho@uab.es
URL: http://idea.uab.es/imacho
Professor JAN K. BRUECKNER
Department of Economics
University of California-Irvine
3151 Social Science Plaza
Irvine CA 92697, USA
Tel.: +1 (949) 824-0083
Fax: +1 (949) 824-2182
Email: jkbrueck@uci.edu
URL: http://www.socsci.uci.edu/~jkbrueck/
Professor NICOLAS BOCCARD
Departament d'Economia
Universitat de Girona (UdG)
Campus de Montilivi
17071 Girona, SPAIN
Tel.: +34 972 41 87 19
Fax: +34 972 41 80 32
Email: nicolas.boccard@udg.es
URL: http://boccard.free.fr/
September 6, 2016