Department: Department of Fundamentals of Economic Analysis

Faculty: Faculty of Business Administration and Management

Institute: Institute of Studies and Development of Galicia (IDEGA)

Area: Fundamentals of Economic Analysis

Research group: GAME Group of Analysis and Modelling in Economics

Email: roberto.bande@usc.es

Doctor by the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela with the thesis Lagged adjustment processes in the spanish unemployment rate a comparison with Portugal 2002. Supervised by Dr. Alberto Meixide Vecino.

B.Sc. in Economics and Business Studies, USC, M.Sc. in Economics, Birkbeck College, University of London, PhD in Economics, USC, and recipient of the Extraordinary Doctorate Award. Associate Professor in the Department of Economic Analysis Fundamentals at the USC. Currently, he is the Dean of the Faculty of Business Administration and Management at the Lugo campus. His research focuses on labor market macroeconomics, the relationship between uncertainty and savings at the macro level, and regional disparities in unemployment. He has been recognized with three research six-year periods and one transfer six-year period by the CNEAI. He has supervised 7 doctoral theses. He is the president of the Galician Association of Regional Science.