I am a young economist with experience in policy making institutions and in the academia. Currently I am a PhD student at the Université Paris-Saclay and at the Universitat de Barcelona. Previously I worked as an intern economist at the Spanish Treasury and worked as a research assistant with the economist Xavier Vives. The main objective of my thesis is to understand the effectivity of locally implemented actions against environmental degradation in a context of an increasingly integrated worldwide production chain. Concretely I focus on the particular ways by which the structure of the production chain, characterised by an input-output matrix, will determine if idiosyncratic local technological and policy shocks will spread effectively across the production network or disappear diluted within it. Generally speaking, in an input-output production network, an agent’s potential for propagating shocks will depend on the degree to which it is supplying or purchasing inputs to/from other agents, the systemic importance of its counterparties, the way by which the agent shortens the “distance” between sectors that do not otherwise trade directly and the degree of substitutability of its outcome. I build upon a relatively recent influx of literature that challenges the previously stablished idea that micro economic shocks were close to irrelevant for aggregate fluctuations.
