"The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists"
Joan Robinson
In this section, you will find an overview of the main lines of research that have shaped my curriculum in recent years. These include the financialisation of modern economies and economics of education.
📄 Academic Publications
Feliciano, D., Ferreiro, J., & Rodriguez-Fuentes, C. J. (2025). What is Financialisation? Examining the Role of Economic Methodology as Source of Theoretical and Policy Divergences. Review of Political Economy, 1–29. https://doi.org/10.1080/09538259.2025.2450517
Feliciano D, López-Torres L, Santín D. One Laptop per Child? Using Production Frontiers for Evaluating the Escuela2.0 Program in Spain. Mathematics. 2021; 9(20):2600. https://doi.org/10.3390/math9202600
👥 Works submitted to national or international conferences
The role of drivers of private demand in shaping the dynamics and change of growth regimes under finance-dominated capitalism.The role of drivers of private demand in shaping the dynamics and change of growth regimes under finance-dominated capitalism. Presented at the 36th EAEPE Conference, Bilbao. Organising entity: European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy. Date: 04/09/2023.
Regimes and drivers in the financialized era. An analysis of European economies before and after the Great Recession. Presented at the 35th EAEPE Conference, Leeds. Organising entity: European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy. Date: 14/09/2023.
Regimes and drivers in the financialised era. An empirical assessment for European economies. Presented at the 16th EAEPE Summer School, Roma. Organising entity: European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy. Date: 04/07/2023.
Regimes and Drivers in the Financialised Era: an Analysis of European Economies Before and After the Great Recession. Presented at the Third International Workshop of the Structuralist Development Macroeconomics, Brasilia. Organising entity: Structuralist Development Macroeconomics Research Group. Date: 28/06/2023.
The development of finance or financialisation? Economic methodology as source of theoretical and policy divergences. Presented at the Third International Workshop of the Structuralist Development Macroeconomics, Brasilia. Organising entity: Structuralist Development Macroeconomics Research Group. Date: 28/06/2023.
Regimes and drivers in the financialised era. An empirical assessment for European economies. Presented at the XXIII Reunión de Economía Mundial, Santander. Organising entity: Sociedad de Economía Mundial. Date: 25/05/2023 .
Understanding the financialisation process: the methodological background as a source of different conceptualizations. Presented at the I Congreso Internacional Multidisciplinar de Estudiantes de Doctorado, San Cristóbal de La Laguna. Organising entity: University of La Laguna. Date: 24/03/2023.
Foundations of a Financialised Monetary Economy of Production: a theoretical framework. Presented at the XXII Reunión de Economía Mundial, Madrir. Organising entity: Sociedad de Economía Mundial. Date: 16/06/2022.
A Financialised Monetary Production Economy. A theoretical framework and some empirical evidence for Spain. Presented at the Fifth Nordic Post Keynesian Conference, Aalborg. Organising entity: Macroeconomic methodology, theory and economic policy (MaMTEP) research group at Aalborg University. Date: 27/04/2022.
One laptop per child? Using production frontiers for evaluating the Escuela 2.0 program in Spain Name of the conference. Presented at the Conference 2022 LESE: Lisbon Economic and Statistics of Education, Carcavelos. Organising entity: Nova School of Business and Economics y Universidade Nova de Lisboa. Date: 21/01/2022 .
Evaluación de la eficiencia de las instituciones de educación superior: el caso de las universidades públicas de Canarias. Presented at the II International Nodes of Knowledge Congress, online. Organising entity: Egregius Ediciones. Date: 25/11/2021.
El proceso de financiarización en las economías europeas: un análisis exploratorio sobre sus rasgos y potenciales efectos económicos. Presented at the II International Nodes of Knowledge Congress, online. Organising entity: Egregius Ediciones. Date: 25/11/2021.
🎓 Obtained grants and scholarships
Academic research grant (Beca de colaboración).
Aims: Collaboration in university departments´ research activity.
Awarding entity: Ministy of Education and Vocartional Training of Spain
Conferral date-End date: : 15/11/2018-15/07/2019
Entity where activity was carried out: Department of Applied Economics and Quantitative Methods of the University of La Laguna.
Ayudas para la formación de profesorado universitario (FPU) - Grants for university teacher training.
Funding entity: University of the Basque Country.
Start-End date: 22/10/2021 - 31/03/2022
🔬 Scientific experience:
R&D Project: "Capital humano y aprendizaje cognitivo: Análisis longitudinales con bases de datos internacionales"
Funding entity: Community of Madrid
Participation: Team member
Start-End date: 22/10/2021 - 31/03/2022
Dedication regime: Part-time.
R&D Project: Instituciones, Políticas Económicas y Sociales, Resultados Económicos y Desigualdad (IPESRED).
Funding entity: University of the Basque Country.
Participation: Team member
Start-End date: 07/2023 - Present.
🌐 Organizations
European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy.
Participation: Member
Start-End date: 06/2023 - Present.