Research papers:

• (2025) "Global value chains, structural change and growth dynamics in South Korea and Spain: Costs and benefits of globalization". Structural Change and Economic Dynamics. Volume 74, September 2025, Pages 17-537 (with Keun Lee, Isabel Álvarez, Ángel Valarezo). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.strueco.2025.05.017 
• (2025) "E-commerce in Spain: Trends, growth, and market dynamics (2018–2021)". Telecommunications Policy Volume 49, Issue 7 (with M.F. Badran, R. López, and T. Pérez-Amaral). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.telpol.2025.103003 
• (2023) "Unleashing the potential of online learning in Spain: An econometric analysis".  Telecommunications Policy, Volume 47, Issue 6 (with R López, Á Valarezo and T Pérez-Amaral). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.telpol.2023.102544 
• (2022) "Evolution of the internet gender gaps in Spain and effects of the Covid-19 pandemic". Telecommunications Policy Volume 46, Issue 8 (with T. Pérez-Amaral, R. López, and T. Garín-Muñoz). https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0308596122000738
• (2021) "Digital divides across consumers of internet services in Spain using panel data 2007–2019. Narrowing or not?" Telecommunications Policy, Vol 45, Issue 2 (with T. Pérez-Amaral, R. López, and T. Garín-Muñoz). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.telpol.2020.102093 
• (2020) "Adoption of E-Commerce by Individuals and Digital-Divide". Applied Economics in the Digital Era. Essays in Honor of Gary Madden. Palgrave Macmillan, Pages 103-134 (With T. Pérez-Amaral and R. López). T. Pérez-Amaral, T. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-40601-1. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-40601-1_4
• (2020) "E-commerce by individuals in Spain using panel data 2008-2016". Telecommunications Policy, Vol 44, Issue 4 (with T. Pérez-Amaral, T. Garín-Muñoz, I. Herguera, and R. López).  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.telpol.2019.101888
• (2019) "Models of Individual Adoption of eCommerce, eBanking, and eGovernment in Spain". Telecommunications Policy,Vol. 43(1), 100-111, (with T. Pérez-Amaral, T. Garín-Muñoz, I. Herguera, and R. López). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.telpol.2018.01.002 
• (2018) "Drivers and barriers to cross-border e-commerce: Evidence from Spanish individual behavior". Telecommunications Policy, Vol. 42(6), 464-473 (with T. Pérez-Amaral, T. Garín-Muñoz, I. Herguera, and R. López). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.telpol.2018.03.006
• (2016) "Big Data: Witnessing the Birth of a New Discipline". Journal of Informatics and Data Mining, 1, 2 (with Pérez-Amaral, T, and Gijón, C)
  https://doi.org/10.4172/2229-8711.S1112 

• (2023) "Entre la digitalización y las brechas en el uso de servicios digitales en España". Fundación Alternativas. IV Informe sobre la Ciencia y Tecnología en España: Situar a España en el mapa geopolítico de la I+D+i. (with C. Quirós) https://fundacionalternativas.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/INTERIOR_ICyT_2023_DIGITAL.pdf

• Internet Trust: Longitudinal Evidence on Socio-Economic and Digital Adoption Behavior
• Consumer spending in e-commerce. The case of Spain

Projects:

• Project: "ENFIELD: European Lighthouse to Manifest Trustworthy and Green AI" (Grant agreement ID: 101120657) 2023-2026. European Comission. Coordinated by NORGES TEKNISK-NATURVITENSKAPELIGE UNIVERSITET NTNU.  Project leader at UCM: Alfredo García-Hiernaux. 
• Project: "Tecnología, Capital Humano, Innovación, Comercio y Recursos Naturales" (PID2022-138706NB-I00) 2023-2025. Ministerio de Ciencia e Inovación. Project leader: Antonia Díaz Rodríguez.
• Project: "Investigaciones en tecnología y sostenibilidad, innovación y el medio ambiente" (PID2019-107161GB-C32) 2021-2023. Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad. Project leader: Luis Puch.  
• Project: "Mercados, innovación y medio ambiente"  (H2019/ HUM- 5859, MIMA- CM) 2020-2022. Participants: IPP (CSIC), CEMFI, UC3M, UCM and others associated researchers. https://mima-cm.eu/. Coordinator: Catalina Martínez. UCM Node: Teodosio Pérez-Amaral, Iñigo Herguera, Teresa Garín-Muñoz, Rafael López, Ángel Valarezo Unda.
• Project: “Finance, Innovation and Strategies: Economic Analysis of Business Productivity and its Determinants” (PRODECON-CM) 2016-2018. Participants: UCM, CEMFI, IPP (CSIC) and others associated researchers. ICAE-UCM Node: Teodosio Pérez-Amaral, Iñigo Herguera, Teresa Garín-Muñoz, Rafael López, Ángel Valarezo Unda.

Secondments :

• Visiting Researcher at Institute of Economic Research. Seul National University, Seoul – Republic of Korea. November 2023.
  CatChain Project (Funding: European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 778398)
• Visiting Researcher at Malaya North-South Research Center (Umnsrc), Kuala Lumpur – Malaysia. September – October 2023. 
  CatChain Project (Funding: European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 778398)
• Visiting Researcher at Centre for Development Studies (CDS). Kerala - India. September 2022. CatChain Project (“This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 778398”.)
• Visiting Researcher at Centro Internacional de Política Económica para el Desarrollo Sostenible (CINPE). Heredia - Costa Rica. November 2022. CatChain Project (“This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 778398”.)

Congress and Seminars:

• 31rd European Conference 2025 of the International Telecommunications Society (ITS). Edinburg, Scotland.
• 36th Annual Conference of the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy 2024. Bilbao, Spain.
  Tracing the interplays of innovation and economic complexity in Global Value Chains. Evidence from Korea and
  Spain?. Alvarez, I., Lee, K., and Valarezo, A.
• ITS 32nd European Conference 2023. Madrid, Spain. Programme Committee.
• Seminar at Centro Internacional de Política Económica para el Desarrollo Sostenible. “Quantitative models of adoption of ICT technologies”. Heredia, Costa Rica. 2022.
•  ITS 31st European Conference 2022. Gothenburg, Sweden.
•  ITS Biennial Conference 2021. Gothenburg, Sweden.
•  III Workshop of the Spanish Macroeconomics Network, 2020. Organization Committee.
•  Competitive dynamics in telecom markets, 2019. Organization Committee.
• 30th ITS European Conference, Helsinki-Finland, 2019
• ICAE PhD Candidate Seminar, Madrid-Spain, 2019
• 29th ITS European Conference, Trento-Italy, 2018
• 5G. Spectrum 5.0: Policy choices for 5G deployment
• ICAE PhD Student Workshop, Madrid-Spain, 2018
• ICAE PhD Student Workshop, Madrid-Spain, 2018
• PRODECON-CM (UCM, CEMFI, IPP|CSIC) Workshop on Innovation and Industrial Organization, Madrid-Spain, 2017.
• 28th ITS European Conference, Passau-Germany, 2017
• 27 th ITS European Conference, Cambridge-UK, 2016
• 26 th ITS European Conference, Madrid-Spain, 2015

Acknowledgments

• Ph.D. Advisor: Professor Teodosio Pérez Amaral.
• Scholarship granted by Ministerio de Economía. Linked to “Tecnología, Capital Humano, Innovación y Comercio” Project; led by Professor Luis Puch, Ph.D.

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