LEON-GONZALEZ, Roberto

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  • Position:
    Associate Professor
  • Degree:
    Ph.D.,(Economics), University of York (U.K.)
  • Specialty:
    Econometrics
• Current Research Interests:
  Model uncertainty and endogeneity in aid-growth regressions
• Professional Career:
  2003: Ph.D., University of York (U.K.)
  2003: Lecturer at the Department of Economics in the University of Sheffield.
  2004: Lecturer in Economics at the University of Leicester.
  2007: Associate Professor at National Graduate Institute of Policy Studies (GRIPS)
  
• Selected publications:
  

  Dasgupta, A., Leon-Gonzalez, R. and Shortland, A. (2011) “Regionality Revisited: An Examination of the Direction of Spread of Currency Crises,” forthcoming in Journal of International Money and Finance.

  
  

  Jochmann, M., Koop, G., Leon-Gonzalez, R. and Strachan, R. (2011) “Stochastic Search Variable Selection in Vector Error Correction Models with an Application to a Model of the UK Macroeconomy,” forthcoming in Journal of Applied Econometrics.

  
  

  Leon-Gonzalez, R. and Tseng, F.M. (2011) “Socio-economic determinants of Mortality in Taiwan: Combining Individual and Aggregate Data,” Health Policy, 99, 22-36.

  
  

  Yang, F and Leon-Gonzalez, R. (2010) “Bayesian Estimation and Model Selection in the Generalized Stochastic Unit Root Model” Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics & Econometrics, 14, 1-36.

  
  

  Koop G., R. León-González and R. Strachan (2010), “Dynamic probabilities of restrictions in state space models: An application to the Phillips curve,” Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, 28, 370-379.

  
  

  Koop G., R. León-González and R. Strachan (2010) “Efficient Posterior Simulation for Cointegrated Models with Priors On the Cointegration Space,” Econometric Reviews, 29, 1-19.

  
  

  Leon, A. and Leon-Gonzalez, R. (2009) “Predicting soil organic carbon percentage from loss-on-ignition using Bayesian Model Averaging,” Australian Journal of Soil Research, 47(8), 763-769.

  
  

   Koop G., R. León-González and R. Strachan (2009), “On the evolution of the monetary policy transmission mechanism,” Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 33, 997-1017.

  
  

  Leon-Gonzalez, R. and Scarpa, R. (2008) “Improving Multi-Site Benefit Functions Via Bayesian Model Averaging: A New Approach To Benefit Transfer,” Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 56, 50-68.

  
  

  Koop G., R. León-González and R. Strachan (2008), “Bayesian Inference in a Cointegrating Panel Data Model” Advances in Econometrics, 23, 433-469

  
  

  Cresser, M.S., Gonzalez, R.L., Leon, A. (2007) “Evaluation of the use of soil depth and parent material data when predicting soil organic carbon concentration from LOI values” Geoderma, 140, 132-139

  
  

  Contoyannis, P., Jones, A.M. and León-González,R. (2004) “Using Simulation‑Based Inference with Panel Data in Health Economics” Health Economics, 13, 101 - 122

  
  

  León-González, R. and Montolio, D. (2004) "Growth, Convergence and Public Investment. A Bayesian Model Averaging Approach" Applied Economics, 36, 1925-1936

  
  

  Jochmann, M. and León-González, R. (2004) "Estimating the demand for health care with panel data: a semiparametric Bayesian approach" Health Economics, 13, 1003-1014

  
  

  Leon-Gonzalez, R. (2003) “A Panel Data Simultaneous Equation Model with a Dependent Categorical Variable and Selectivity” Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, 12, 1, 230-242

  
  

  León, R. and León, C. (2003) “Single or Double Bounded Contingent Valuation? A Bayesian Test”, Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 50, 2, 174-188.

  
  León, C.,  Vázquez-Polo, F. J. and León González,R. (2003) “Elicitation of Expert Opinion in Benefit Transfer of Environmental Goods”, Environmental and Resource Economics, 26, 2, 199-210.
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• E-mail: rlg