Research Interest
Economic theory, Macroeconomics, Growth
Professor Dávila has held positions, before joining NU, at CORE (University of Louvain), University of Pennsylvania, Centre d’Economie de la Sorbonne (University of Paris 1), Autonomous University of Barcelona. He has also been visiting scholar at Harvard University, Fernand Braudel Fellow at the European University Institute, visiting professor at the Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management (Free University of Brussels), Visiting Professor at University Carlos III of Madrid, and visiting professor at Chulalongkorn University. He obtained his PhD (1994) in Economics at DELTA (nowadays morphed into Paris School of Economics) from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, and obtained his BA in Economics (1990) from the University Complutense of Madrid.
Property Rights and Long-run Capital. Journal of Public Economic Theory (2021)
The Education Gender Gap and Demographic Transition in Developing Countries (with T. Dao, A. Greulich). Journal of Population Economics 34, 431-474 (2021)
Internalizing Fertility and Education Externalities on Capital Returns. Economic Theory 66: 343 (2018)
Output Externalities on Total Factor Productivity. Macroeconomic Dynamics 21(6), 1389-1452 (2017)
Constrained Efficiency in the Neoclassical Growth Model with Uninsurable Idiosyncratic Shocks (with J.H. Hong, P. Krusell and J.V. Ríos Rull). Econometrica 80(6), 2431-2467 (2012)
The Taxation of Capital Returns in Overlapping Generations Models. Journal of Macroeconomics 34, 441-453 (2012)
Competitive Bargaining Equilibrium (with J. Eeckhout). Journal of Economic Theory 139, 269-294 (2008)
Local Sunspot Equilibria Reconsidered (with P. Gottardi and A. Kajii). Economic Theory 31, 401-425 (2007)
Multiplicity, Instability and Sunspots in Games. Journal of Mathematical Economics 39, 197-217 (2003)
Sunspot Equilibria in Dynamics with Predetermined Variables. Economic Theory 10, 483-495 (1997)
Microeconomics I, Mathematical Economics, Thesis I