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Dr Maria Racionero


BEc (First National Prize) U La Laguna MEc UAB, Ph.D. UAB
 
Senior Lecturer
School of Economics
 
Office Location
Room 2010, HW Arndt Building 25a

Mailing Address
School of Economics
HW Arndt Building 25a
Australian National University
ACT 0200 Australia
 
Telephone  +61 2 612 54466
Fax  +61 2 612 55124
Email  maria.racionero@anu.edu.au

   
  Disciplines
  Research Focus
  • Public Economics, Information Economics, Optimal Non-linear Taxation, Education Policies
  Teaching Focus
Teaching Responsibilities
  • Lecturer, ECON2131 Public Economics - Theory (Sem 1)
  • Lecturer, ECON2132 Public Economics - Theory (H) (Sem 1)
  • Lecturer, ECON3101 Microeconomics 3 (Sem 1)
  • Convener, ECON4004 Economics IV Honours (Annual)
  • Convener, ECON4021 Applied Economics IV Honours (Annual)
  • Lecturer, ECON8034 Principles of Public Economics (Sem 1)
  Administrative Responsibilities / PhD Supervision
Honours Convenor, from January 2009.
  Publications
  • "Financing schemes for higher education" (with Elena Del Rey), forthcoming European Journal of Political Economy (ANU Working Papers in Economics and Econometrics no. 460).
  • "Optimal redistribution with unobservable disability: welfarist versus non-welfarist objectives" (with Pierre Pestieau), European Economic Review, August 2009, pp. 636-644.
  • "An efficiency argument for affirmative action in higher education" (with Elena Del Rey), Hacienda Pública Española/Revista de Economía Pública 187(4), December 2008, pp. 41-48.
  • "Fixed wages and bonuses in agency contracts: the case of a continuous state space" (with John Quiggin), Journal of Public Economic Theory 8(5), December 2006, pp. 761-777.
  • "Optimal Redistribution when Different Workers are Indistinguishable” (with Maurice Marchand and Pierre Pestieau), Canadian Journal of Economics 36(4), November 2003, pp. 911-922.
  • "Optimal Redistribution with Heterogeneous Preferences for Leisure" (with Robin Boadway, Maurice Marchand and Pierre Pestieau), Journal of Public Economic Theory 4(4), October 2002, pp. 475-498.
  • "Optimal Educational Choice and Redistribution when Parental Education Matters" (with Elena Del Rey), Oxford Economic Papers 54(3), July 2002, pp. 435-448.
  • "Optimal Tax Mix with Merit Goods", Oxford Economic Papers 53(4), October 2001, pp. 628-641.
  • "Optimal Redistribution with Unobservable Preferences for an Observable Merit Good", International Tax and Public Finance Vol. 7 No 4/5, August 2000, pp. 479-501.
  • Essays on Optimal Redistribution. Ph.D. Dissertation, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, October 1999.

 

  Consultation Times

By appointment.

  Brief Biography

Dr. María Racionero obtained the First National Prize, awarded by the Spanish Ministry of Education, upon completion of her undergraduate studies. She pursued her doctoral studies at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, within the IDEA program (International Doctorate in Economic Analysis), where she obtained both a Master and a Ph D degrees in Economics. From 1997 she benefited from a TMR European Community grant to conduct research at CORE (Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium). Her main field of research is public economic theory, with particular interest in optimal taxation theory, and her work has been published in refereed international journals (Canadian Journal of Economics, European Economic Review, European Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Public Economic Theory, Oxford Economic Papers and International Tax and Public Finance).

  Curriculum Vitae
 Curriculum Vitae 117kb

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