Carlos Vidal-meliá

Biography

"Dr. Carlos Vidal-Meliá is Associate Professor of Social Security and Actuarial Science at Valencia University (Spain), research affiliate at the ICAE (Complutense Institute of Economic Analysis) and an independent consultant-actuary. He holds a PhD. in Economics from the University of Valencia, a degree in Actuarial Science from the Complutense University of Madrid and a degree in Business from the University of Valencia. He has worked as an adviser on company and personal pension schemes and as a financial economist for small firms. He has published several papers in refereed journals such as SERIES (Journal of the Spanish Economic Association), Innovar Journal, Scandinavian Actuarial Journal, Astin Bulletin (2), Applied Economics (2), Spanish Public Finance, Journal of Economic Policy Reform, The Journal of Economics and Finance (2), Applied Economics Letters, International Social Security Review (3), Spanish Journal of Finance and Accounting (3), The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance, Fiscal Studies, Revista de Economía Financiera, Belgian Actuarial Bulletin, Currency and Credit, Journal of Applied Economics and Economic Analysis Magazine, among others. His research interests include public pension reforms, automatic balance mechanisms, the actuarial balance for pay-as-you-go finance, the theoretical basis for integrating retirement and permanent disability using a generic NDC framework, the assessment of the 2011-2013 reforms of the The pension scheme is based on the pension plan, the pension plan, the pension plan, the pension plan, the pension plan, the pension plan, the pension plan and the pension plan. system, the analysis of whether the rates are to cover the actuarial cost of pensions deriving from occupational injury and disease are the appropriate ones, and the representativeness of the Continuous Sample of Working Lives (CSWL).In November 2014 he was awarded (jointly with Manuel Ventura-Marco) the Actuarial SCOR Prize for Spain and Portugal."

Research Interest

Financial and Actuarial Mathematics, Life Insurance; Dependency and Health, Pension Plans, Social Security Techniques, Financial and Cost Accounting.