Alejandro Donado University of Würzburg Tel: +49 (931) 31 82952 Department of Economics Fax: +49 (931) 31 87025 Sanderring 2 alejandro.donado@uni-wuerzburg.de 97070 Würzburg Education Ph.D. Economics (summa cum laude), University of Würzburg,, 2011 M.A. Economics (with highest honors), Dresden University of Technology,, 2004 B.A. Economics, University of Toulouse, France, 2000 Academic Positions 04/2011 - present: Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Würzburg, 12/2004-04/2011: Research Assistant, Department of Economics, University of Würzburg, 10/2004-12/2004: Research Assistant, Department of Economics, Dresden University of Technology, 10/2003-10/2004: Student Assistant, Department of Economics, Dresden University of Technology, Awards and Research Grants 6/2012: Grant from the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) to organize the research workshop: "The future of trade unions" at the University of Mainz, 5/2012: Faculty best doctoral thesis prize (Promotionspreis der Unterfränkischen Gedenkjahrstiftung für Wissenschaft und der Julius- Maximilians-Universität Würzburg), University of Würzburg
4/2011: Student travel award to participate at the 2011 meeting of the European Economic Association in Oslo, Norway 5/2008: Grant from the Royal Economic Society for attending the 2008 annual conference at the University of Warwick, United Kingdom 4/2008: Student travel award to participate at the 2008 meeting of the European Economic Association in Milan, Italy 11/2005: Research grant from the Noris-Stiftung ösdbr 11/2004: Prize to the best graduate in economics, Dresden University of Technology 6/1995: "Diploma de Excelencia", Prize to the best high school graduate of his class, Abraham Lincoln School (Bogotá, Colombia) Research Interests International economics, labor economics, cultural economics Publications How trade unions increase welfare, Economic Journal 122 (2012): 990-1009 (with Klaus Wälde) Working Papers Why do unionized workers have more nonfatal occupational injuries?, Industrial & Labor Relations Review, revise and resubmit How bad is globalization for labour standards in the North? (with Klaus Wälde) Work in Progress Labor standards and FDI The language effect The demand for foreign languages Foreign languages and economic exchange
Unpublished Papers Trade unions go global! (with Klaus Wälde) Presentations 1/12/2005: Research Seminar, University of Würzburg, 8/2/2007: Research Seminar, University of Würzburg, 15-16/2/2007: 3 rd BGPE Research Workshop, Passau, 9-10/11/2007: 1 st BGPE Conference Incentives in Economics, Nuremberg, 27-29/2/2008: 1 st Doctoral Meeting of Montpellier, University of Montpellier, France 17-19/3/2008: Royal Economic Society Conference, University of Warwick, United Kingdom 17-19/4/2008: Spring Meeting of Young Economists, University of Lille, France 29-31/5/2008: CESifo-Delphi Conference, Munich, 27-31/8/2008: 23 rd Meeting of the European Economic Association, Milan, Italy 18-20/9/2008: Conference of the European Association of Labor Economists, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands 23/6/2009: Research Seminar, University of Würzburg, 9/11/2009: Research Seminar, Dresden University of Technology, 11-12/2/2010: 9 th BGPE Research Workshop, Nürnberg, 17-19/6/2010: 3 rd World Conference of the European Association of Labour Economists (EALE) and the Society of Labor Economists (SOLE), University College London, United Kingdom 16-18/12/2010: 35 th Conference of the Spanish Economic Association, Madrid, Spain 8/2/2011: Research Seminar, University of Würzburg, 16-18/3/2011: 13. Göttinger Workshop "Internationale Wirtschaftsbeziehungen", University of Göttingen, 25-29/8/2011: 26 th Meeting of the European Economic Association, Oslo, Norway 18/11/2011: University of Tübingen,
13/6/2012: Research Workshop: "The future of trade unions", University of Mainz, Invited Presentations 2/3/2010: Economics Seminar Series, Aarhus University, Denmark 28/4/2011: Welttag für Arbeits- und Gesundheitsschutz / Internationaler Gedenktag für verunglückte und verstorbene Beschäftigte, Dresden, 4/7/2012: Economics Research Seminar, University of Bayreuth, Conference Organization 13/6/2012: Research Workshop: "The future of trade unions". University of Mainz,. Keynote speaker: John H. Pencavel (Stanford University) Memberships Royal Economic Society, European Economic Association, European Association of Labour Economists, German Economic Association Teaching 12/2004-3/2005: Economic Growth and Development (tutorial) 4/2005-8/2005: Economic Growth and Development (tutorial), International Trade (tutorial), International Trade (seminar) 10/2005-3/2006: Applied Intertemporal Optimization (tutorial), Macroeconomics (tutorial) 4/2006-8/2006: Economic Growth and Development (tutorial), International Trade (tutorial) 10/2006-3/2007: Applied Intertemporal Optimization (tutorial), International Trade (seminar) 4/2007-8/2007: Economic Growth and Development (tutorial), International Trade (tutorial), International Trade (seminar) 8/2007-12/2007: International Trade (seminar)
4/2009-8/2009: Macroeconomics (tutorial), The Chinese Economy (seminar) 10/2009-3/2010: Macroeconomics (tutorial) 10/2010-3/2011: Macroeconomics (tutorial), International Macroeconomics (seminar) 4/2011-8/2011: Advanced Macroeconomics (lecture), Trade Theory and Policy (seminar), International Macroeconomics (seminar) 10/2011-3/2012: Macroeconomics (lecture), Macroeconomics (tutorial) 4/2012-8/2012: Advanced Macroeconomics (lecture), Macroeconomics (tutorial) Languages Spanish (native), French (fluent), English (fluent), German (fluent), Italian (basic)