Miguel Dols Fellows' Workshop Spring Term 2023-4

Each term the Cañada-Blanch Centre at LSE organises a Fellow Workshop in which its visiting LSE-Miguel Dols Fellows present their ongoing research.
Meet our speakers


Prof. Juan de Lucio, Professor at the Universidad de Alcalá – UAH and main researcher of the high-performance research group I4. He is specialized in the field of applied economics analysis.

Reducing trade with Russia: Sanctions vs. reputation


Federico Zampollo (in X, formerly Twitter), PhD candidate in Regional Science and Economic Geography at the Gran Sasso Science Institute (L’Aquila, Italy). Within his PhD research project, he investigates the interaction between local institutional quality and the geographical distribution of economic activities across Italian municipalities.

What is the impact of establishing subnational institutions on economic growth? The case of Italian regions


Ana Lleó-Bono, PhD candidate in Economics at the University of Cambridge, UK. Her research focuses on topics such as productivity, team dynamics, and incentives, in particular, her PhD. thesis investigates the incentives’ structure of workers on the Spanish citrus industry.

Comparing Oranges to Oranges: A Field RCT on Team Incentives and Productivity


Daniela-Andreia Damian, PhD candidate in Geography at the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania, and Côte d'Azur University Nice, France. Her research explores the connection between human capital formation and academic trends in the European context, with a specific emphasis on the Romanian case.

Human capital and academic trends: A European overview with an emphasis on Romania's educational landscape.

Meet our chair

Prof. Andrés Rodríguez-Pose is the Princesa de Asturias Chair and a Professor of Economic Geography at the London School of Economics. He is the Director of the Cañada Blanch Centre LSE. He is a former Head of the Department of Geography and Environment between 2006 and 2009. He is a past-President of the Regional Science Association International (RSAI) (2015-2017) and served as Vice-President of the RSAI in 2014. He was also Vice-President (2012-2013) and Secretary (2001-2005) of the European Regional Science Association.


More about this event

The Cañada-Blanch Centre at LSE is the vehicle to achieve the objective of the Fundación Cañada Blanch: developing and reinforcing the links between the United Kingdom and Spain. This is done by means of fostering cutting-edge knowledge generation and joint research projects between researchers in the United Kingdom, and at the LSE in particular, on the one hand, and Spain, on the other.