María Santana-Gallego Curriculum Vitae-November-2011 PERSONAL DETAILS Date and Place of Birth: Nationality: Email: CONTACT DETAILS Office Address: Telephone RESEARCH FIELD CURRENT POSITION 18th September, 1982, Santa Cruz de Tenerife (Spain) Spanish msangall@ull.es; maria.santana@uib.es Departament of Applied Economics, University of Balearic Islands. Edificio Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos, Campus UIB Cra. Valldemossa, km 7.5, C.P. 07122 Palma (Illes Balears) +(34)626911977 Mobile phone +(34) 971171383 Office phone International Trade, Tourism Economics Lecturer in Economics, Departament of Applied Economics, University of Balearic Islands (Spain) EDUCATION oct-04/june-2010 oct-06/oct-07 oct-04/nov-06 oct-00/jul-04 PhD in Economics. University of La Laguna (Spain). Thesis title: Essays on Tourism, Trade and Exchange Rates. 5 th June 2010. Sobresaliente cum Laude - European PhD Awarded with the Extraordinary PhD award in Social Science and Law (2010) MSc in Economics and Econometrics. University of Kent (UK). Grade: Distinction Awarded with the Walter Hagenbuch Economics Prize for the best master student. Diploma in Advance Studies (DEA). University of La Laguna (Spain). Grade: Distinction BSc in Economics. University of La Laguna (Spain). Grade: Merit
TEACHING 2011-2012 (UIB) History of Economic Thought (undergraduate) 2011-2012 (UIB) Macroeconomics (undergraduate) 2010-2011 (ULL) World Economy (undergraduate) 2010-2011 (ULL) Spanish and World Economy (undergraduate) 2009-2010 (ULL) World Economy (undergraduate) AWARDS September-2010 Abril-2011 Feb-2011 nov-07 jun-07 2012-2014 2008-2011 2005-2007 Accreditation of the Agencia Nacional de Evaluación de la Calidad y Acreditación (ANECA) as Ayudante Doctor Accreditation of the Agencia Nacional de Evaluación de la Calidad y Acreditación (ANECA) as Contratado Doctor Extraordinary PhD award in Social Science and Law (2010), University of La Laguna The Thea Sinclair Memorial Award for the paper On the impact of exchange rate and tourism" Walter Hagenbuch Economics Prize for the best master student. University of Kent Member of the Research Project El comportamiento de los mercados cambiarios: Nueva información, capacidad predictiva y regímenes cambiarios. Supervisor: Jorge V. Pérez-Rodríguez (ULPGC) Dirección General de Investigación y Gestión del Plan Nacional de I+D+i. Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación. Number: ECO2011-23189. Member of the Research Project Nuevos desarrollos en regímenes cambiarios de iure y de facto Supervisor: Simón Sosvilla (UCM) Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología, Programa Nacional de Investigación Científica, Desarrollo e Innovación Tecnológica. Number: ECO2008-05565 Member of the Research Project Regímenes Cambiarios de Facto y de Iure Supervisor: Francisco Ledesma (ULL) Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología, Programa Nacional de Investigación Científica, Desarrollo e Innovación Tecnológica Numer: SEJ2005-09094/ECON
Feb 09/Apr 10 jan-06/jan-09 oct-03/jun-04 Research Grant Becas Gobierno de Canarias para la realización de tesis doctoral Research Grant Universidad de La Laguna-Cajacanarias Research Grant Beca colaboración departamento Análisis Económico- Ministerio de Educación y Ciencias PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Jan-06/April-2010 Aug-05/jan-06 May-05/Aug-05 Nov-04/Feb-05 Jul-04/Sept-04 Research Fellow. University of La Laguna (Spain) Junior Consultant. LaSDV. Market research, tourist sector analysis. Santa Cruz de Tenerife (Spain) Research Fellow. PROEXCA. Market research, tourist sector analysis. Santa Cruz de Tenerife (Spain) Accounting. Cabildo de Tenerife. Public Accounting. Santa Cruz de Tenerife (Spain) Markenting Assistant. Caja Rural de Tenerife. Santa Cruz de Tenerife (Spain) RESEARCH Publications The impact of mega-events on tourist arrivals with Johan Fourie Tourism Management Volume 32, Issue 6, December 2011, pp 1364-1370 Trade and Tourism in OECD countries. A dynamic heterogeneous panel data analysis, with Francisco Ledesma and Jorge Pérez. Empirical Economics (2011) Volume 41(2), pp 533-554 Tourism and trade in small island regions: The case of the Canary Islands, with Francisco Ledesma and Jorge Pérez. Tourism Economics (2011), Vol 17(1), pp 107-125 Regímenes de tipos de cambio, turismo y comercio, with Francisco Ledesma-Rodríguez, Francisco and Jorge Pérez- Rodríguez. Principios: Estudios de Economía Política, (2010) Vol(18), pp 5-21. Does a common currency promote countries growth via trade and tourism? with Francisco Ledesma, Jorge Pérez and Isabel Cortés-Jiménez, The World Economy (2010),Vol 33(12) pp 1811-1835
Exchange Rate Regimes and Tourism, with Francisco Ledesma and Jorge Pérez. Tourism Economics (2010), Vol 16(1), pp.25-43 On the relationships between trade and tourism. María Santana, Francisco Ledesma and Jorge Pérez. The Economics of Sustainable Tourism. Chapter 6, Routledge ed. (2010) Measuring the gains from currency union membership in Southern Africa, with Johan Fourie Tralac Yearbook (2009) Vol.9, pp.75-95 Viabilidad del consorcio de la Zona Especial Canaria (ZEC), Andres Conesa Fontes y María Santana Gallego (2007), Vol.18 (Zona Especial Canaria, special issue), pp.123-146 Working Papers On the impact of exchange rate regimes on tourism. (María Santana Gallego, Francisco J. Ledesma Rodríguez, Jorge V. Pérez-Rodríguez). Documentos de Economía y Finanzas Internacionales DEFI 07-07 The impact of mega-events on tourist arrivals ( Johan Fourie and María Santana-Gallego) Economic Research Southern Africa, University of Cape Town Working Papers number 171 The currency union effect on trade. Revisiting Rose s puzzle. (María Santana Gallego, Francisco Ledesma, Jorge Pérez). Documentos de Economía y Finanzas Internacionales DEFI 10-02 Work submitted for publication International trade and tourism. A Helpma, Melitz and Rubinstein approach (with Francisco Ledesma and Jorge Pérez). The determinants of African Tourism. A dynamic panel data analysis (with Johan Fourie) Work in progress On the impact of the euro on international tourism (with Francisco Ledesma and Jorge Pérez) Analysis of the impact of exchange rate regimes on trade flows. A panel data analysis (1950-2008) (with Francisco Ledesma and Jorge Pérez). Ethnic Reunion (with Johan Fourie) Conferences Biennial Conference of the Economic Society of South Africa, University of Stellenbosch, Stellenbosch 5-7 September 2011 (South Africa) XXV Congreso Internacional de Economía Aplicada ASEPELT 2011. Santander 8-11 Junio (2010)
XV Congreso AECIT (Dinámicas de transformación del Turismo en el siglo XXI). La Laguna, Noviembre 2010 II Workshop Economía Internacional: Comercio y Finanzas, La Laguna. October (2010) XXIV Congreso Internacional de Economía Aplicada ASEPELT 2010. Alicante 16-19 Junio (2010) XIII Encuentros de Economía Aplicada 2010. Sevilla 10-11 Junio (2010) Colloquium on Mega-Events Sustainability. Johannesburg 24 February 2010 2nd Conference of The International Association For Tourism Economics (IATE). Thailand 11 to 13 December 2009 XI Conference on International Economics, Barcelona, 25-26 June 2009 Workshop Economía Internacional: Comercio y Finanzas, La Laguna. May 2009 Advances in Tourism Economics, Lisbon 23-24 april, 2009 65th International Atlantic Economic Conference, Poland 09-12 April 2008 The 6th DeHaan Tourism Management Conference, Nottingham. 18-December (2007) First Conference of the International Association for Tourism Economics (IATE).Palma de Mallorca, Spain. 25th-27th October 2007. VI Seminario de Economía Canaria, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.21st September 2007 Seminars A note on the effect of common currencies on trade" Seminario Investigación Departamento de Economía Aplicada, Universidad de las Islas Baleares, Abril 2011 The currency union effect on trade. Revisiting Rose's puzzle. October 2009. Development Economics Seminars. School of Economics. University of Nottingham Does common currency promote countries growth via trade and tourism? May 2009. Departament d'estructura Econòmica. University of Valencia
Does common currency promote countries growth via trade and tourism? March 2009. Workshop on International Economics and Finance. University of La Laguna Does common currency promote countries growth via trade and tourism? December 2008. Research seminar jointly organised by Tourism and Travel Research Institute (TTRI) and the Division of Industrial Economics. University of Nottingham Research Visiting Visiting Centre for Research in Economic Development and International Trade (CREDIT). School of Economics. Nottingham (UK). September-December (2009) Visiting Tourism and Travel Research Institute (TTRI). Business School, University of Nottingham (UK). June-December (2008) LANGUAGES Spanish (native), English (Fluent), French (basic) Ciclo Superior Escuela Oficial de Idiomas. Idioma: Inglés TOEFL Internet based test: 109/120 Certificate Advances English (CAE): C First Certificate in English (FCE): B