Olympia Bover

Olympia Bover is an economist who is currently Director of the Department of Structural Analysis and Microeconomic Studies at the Bank of Spain. She is a research fellow at the CEPR,[1] and an International Research Associate at the Institute for Fiscal Studies in London.[2]

She obtained her MSc and PhD from the London School of Economics and a Bachelor (Licenciada) from the University of Barcelona.[3]

Research

Her contribution to the research was to improve our understanding of Instrumental Variables approaches in economics. Her paper "Another look at the instrumental variable estimation of error-components models" (with Manuel Arellano) has been cited over 15000 times[4] and offers better ways to use instrumental variables when dealing with panel data.[5]

Her work has been quoted in El País,[6] EFE[2] and Cinco Días.[7] Her research has been cited over 19000 times.[4]

Awards and recognition

She won the Kuznets Prize for the best article in the Journal of Population Economics from 2001–2003.[5] She won the John W. Kendrick Prize for the best article published in the Review of Income and Wealth in 2010–2011.[4] She was made a Fellow of the European Economic Association in 2013.[6] She was a fellow of the IZA Institute of Labor Economics in Bonn[8] until 2014. She is one of the 30 most cited women in economics.[3]

Bibliography
  • Arellano, Manuel; Bover, Olympia (July 1995). "Another look at the instrumental variable estimation of error-components models". Journal of Econometrics. 68 (1): 29–51. doi:10.1016/0304-4076(94)01642-D.

References
  1. "Researcher Contact Details". cepr.org. Retrieved 2020-03-28.
  2. "Olympia Bover -". www.ifs.org.uk. Retrieved 2020-03-28.
  3. "Olympia Bower's CV" (PDF).
  4. "Olympia Bover - Google Scholar Citations". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2020-03-28.
  5. Arellano & Bover 1995.
  6. de 2013, Por: Miguel Ángel Noceda | 09 de abril. "Homenaje a Julio Segura". Información Privilegiada (in Spanish). Retrieved 2020-03-28.
  7. Castillo, Elisa (2019-02-12). "Una de cada cuatro casas se declaraba en el boom a la mitad del valor al que se tasaba". Cinco Días (in Spanish). Retrieved 2020-03-28.
  8. "Olympia Bover | IZA - Institute of Labor Economics". www.iza.org. Retrieved 2020-03-28.
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