Doctor of Economics since 2003 (UAM University at Madrid), Juan Casta帽eda has experience working and researching in monetary policy and central banking. He has worked with the European Parliament鈥檚 Committee of Economic and Monetary Affairs in the so-called 鈥渕onetary dialogue with the European Central Bank鈥, and has also submitted written evidence for a UK Parliament report on the euro. He has been a visiting researcher at Cass Business School in London (and from 2015 to 2018 senior visiting fellow of the Faculty of Finance), and lecturer at UNED University in Madrid. He has been awarded a Bank of Spain annual scholarship to develop research on the monetary history and has also developed several research projects funded by the Institute of Fiscal Studies at Madrid on fiscal policy rules. He is the review editor of Economic Affairs and the editor and author of a website specialising in monetary policy and central banking:聽Juan is also a member of the , since September 2018.
Juan Casta帽eda was appointed as Director of the聽聽in January 2016.
In 2017 he was appointed as 鈥淓xternal Expert鈥 in Economics of COST, the European Cooperation in Science and Technology Agency. is supported by the EU Framework Programme Horizon 2020.
Dr Casta帽eda is the co-author of a quarterly column (Money Matters) in OMFIF鈥檚 Bulletin (with Tim Congdon) and has been quoted in S&P Global Market Intelligence on topical issues in money, banking and central banking; such as the 鈥楲IBOR scandal鈥, central bank independence () 聽or new digital currencies ( ). He has also contributed to CityAM with articles on the Eurozone () and financial regulation () .
Selected Publications
- Juan E. Casta帽eda & Pedro Schwartz: How functional is the Eurozone? An index of the European economic integration through the single currency. Forthcoming. Economic Affairs (October), Vol. 37, Num. 3. 2017.
- Juan E. Casta帽eda, 鈥楨uro 2.0鈥: a preliminary assessment of the European Banking Union and a market-oriented monetary alternative
- Juan E. Casta帽eda & Tim Congdon, 鈥淗ave central banks forgotten about money? The case of the European Central Bank, 1999-2014鈥, in T. Congdon (ed.), Money in the Great Recession: Did a Crash in Money Growth Cause the Global Slump? (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2017), ch.4
- Juan E. Casta帽eda, David G. Mayes & Geoffrey Wood (eds), European Banking Union: Prospects and Challenges (Abingdon: Routledge, 2016).
- J.L. Cendejas, F-F. Mu帽oz & J. Casta帽eda, 鈥淲hen Money Matters: Some Policy Lessons from the Business Cycle in Spain, 1998鈥2013鈥, World Economics 15.2 (June 2014), 77-110
- 鈥楾he measurement of the optimality of a currency area: the US dollar, UK pound and the Eurozone鈥. In Castaneda, Roselli and Wood (eds.): The Economics of Monetary Unions. Past Experiences and the Eurozone. Routledge (forthcoming, 2020).
- 鈥楢 measurement of asymmetry in the running of the classical gold standard鈥. (With Alessandro Roselli and Simeng He). In Castaneda, Roselli and Wood (eds.): The Economics of Monetary Unions. Past Experiences and the Eurozone. Routledge (forthcoming, 2020).
- 鈥楥onfronting financial crises under different monetary regimes: Spain in the Great Depression years鈥. (With P. Schwartz). In Spek and van Leeuwen (eds.): Coins, currencies and crises. On money and trust from c. 2000 BC 鈥 c. AD 2000. Routledge, 2018.
- 鈥楻ebalancing the Euro Area. A proposal for future reform鈥. Martens Centre for European Studies. Policy Brief. December 2018. Available at: https://martenscentre.eu/sites/default/files/publication-files/euro-area-reform.pdf
- 鈥楥entral bank independence in small open economies鈥. (With F. Capie and G. Wood). In M. Bordo, O. Eitrheim, M. Flandreau and J. Qvigstad (eds.): Of the uses of central banks: lessons from history. Norges Bank. Cambridge University Press, 2016.