Pilar Sorribas is Associate Professor at the Department of Economics at the University of Barcelona and Research Fellow at the Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB) and at the Institutions and Political Economy Research Group (IPErG). Her research interests are Political Economy and Public Finances. Se holds a Phd in economics from the UAB and a Msc from the University of York. She has been visiting researcher at the universities of Warwick, Uppsala and Toronto. Se has published her work on  Comparative Political Studies, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, Journal of Public Economics among others.