Investigadores

Dr. Edgar Demetrio Tovar García

I hold a PhD in Economics from the University of Barcelona, later I made a postdoctoral stay at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. I have worked as Short Term Consultant of the World Bank and as Research Professor in Mexican and Russian Universities. My interests include financial system, economics of education, language policy, and econometric modelling, particularly regression analysis with panel data.

 

Scopus ID http://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.url?authorId=55421102000

Google Scholar https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=fGOHt_kAAAAJ

 

Education  

  • Postdoctoral fellow at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). Research: Financial development and globalization.
  • Ph. D. in Economics, University of Barcelona (UB), Spain. Research stay at the University of Tampere, Finland. With specialization on History, International Economics and Development. Doctoral dissertation: “Financial globalization and its effects on financial system and economic development”.
  • MA in Financial Economics, People’s Friendship University of Russia (RUDN - Patricio Lumumba). *Unfinished.
  • MA in Economics [Master of Advanced Studies / Diploma de Estudios Avanzados DEA], University of Barcelona (UB), Spain.
  • Specialist’s degree [Certification/Diploma] in Local Economic Development (DelNet programs), International Labor Organization (ILO). By distance learning.  
  • BA in Economics, University of Guadalajara (U de G), Mexico.

 

Awards, fellowships and other major achievements

  • Member of the National System of Researchers, Mexico (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sistema_Nacional_de_Investigadores)
  • Annual prize-winner awarded by the Journal Comercio Exteriorand theBanco de Comercio Exteriorin Mexico
  • HSE Academic Bonus (Individual Grant) for publication in respectable international peer-reviewed journal
  • First Prize Winner of the Competition among Young Scientists of the journal Educational Studies.
  • National Autonomous University of Mexico. Fellowship for Post-doctoral research stay
  • Ministry of Education, Russia. Master Program Fellowship
  • Centre for International Mobility (CIMO), Finland. Dissertation Fellowship and Research stay at the University of Tampere
  • Ministry of Education, Spain. Dissertation Fellowship
  • University of Guadalajara, Mexico. Fellowship for Ph.D. studies at the University of Barcelona

 

Publications

2019

  • Tovar-García, E. D. & Carrasco, C. (accepted). Export and import composition as determinants of bilateral trade in goods: Evidence from Russia. Post-Communist Economies, it will be available at the following permanent link: https://doi.org/10.1080/14631377.2018.1557913

2018

  • Alòs i Font, H., & Tovar-García, E. (2018). Trilingualism, Bilingualism and Educational Achievements: The Case of Chuvash and Tatar in Rural Russia. Voprosy Obrazovaniya, (3), 8–35. https://doi.org/10.17323/1814-9545-2018-3-8-35
  • Banda-Ortiz, H., & Tovar-García, E. D. (2018). Impacto de la estructura tributaria sobre el crecimiento económico: el caso de México. Revista Mexicana de Economía y Finanzas Nueva Época, 13(4), 585–601. https://doi.org/10.21919/remef.v13i4.340
  • Tovar-García, E. D. (2018a). Does the share of crude petroleum and natural gas in exports increase total exports? The Russian case. World Economy and International Relations,62(6), 30–35. https://doi.org/10.20542/0131-2227-2018-62-6-30-35
  • Tovar-García, E. D. (2018b). Immigrantskoe proiskhozhdenie ili assertivnost’? Poisk klyuchevykh faktorov obrazovatel’nykh dostizheniy detey migrantov (Immigrant Background or Assertiveness? In the Search of Key Factors for the Academic Progress of Migrant Children). Psychology. Journal of Higher School of Economics, 15(2), 326–345. https://doi.org/10.17323/1813-8918-2018-2-326-345
  • Tovar-García, E. D. (2018c). The Association between Sport Activities and Educational Achievements: Evidence from Russian Longitudinal Data. Voprosy Obrazovaniya, (2), 46–70.https://doi.org/10.17323/1814-9545-2018-2-46-70
  • Tovar-García, E. D., & Podmazin, E. (2018). The impact of socioeconomic status and population size on the use of the Tatar language at home. Intercultural Education, 29(1), 122–138. https://doi.org/10.1080/14675986.2017.1404740

2017

  • Tovar-García, E.-D. (2017a). Cultural activities and educational progress: evidence from Russian longitudinal data. Cultura y Educación, 29(4), 762–797. http://doi.org/10.1080/11356405.2017.1377991
  • Tovar García, E. D. (2017b). Market discipline in the Central American banking system. Contaduría  y Administración, 62(5), 1610–1626. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.cya.2017.07.002
  • Tovar-García, E. D. (2017c). Market discipline in the Latin American banking system: Testing depositor discipline, borrower discipline, and the internal capital market hypothesis. The Spanish Review of Financial Economics, 15(2), 78–90. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.srfe.2017.07.001
  • Tovar-García, E. D. (2017d). Migration background and educational achievements in Russia. Migraciones Internacionales, 9(1), 69–93. http://doi.org/10.17428/rmi.v9i32.889
  • Tovar-García, E. D. (2017e). The impact of perseverance and passion for long term goals (GRIT) on educational achievements of migrant children: Evidence from Tatarstan, Russia. Psicología Educativa, 23(1), 19–27. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.pse.2017.02.003
  • Tovar-García, E. D., & Kamaev, A. (2017). Educational achievements of migrant schoolchildren in Moscow. In E. Yasin (Ed.), XVII Aprel’skaja mezhdunarodnaja nauchnaja konferencija po problemam razvitija jekonomiki i obshhestva. V chetyreh knigah. Kniga 4.(pp. 303–310). Moscow: NRU HSE. Retrieved from https://conf.hse.ru/2016/sbornik
  • Tovar-García, E. D., & Alòs i Font, H. (2017). Bilingualism and educational achievements: The impact of the language used at home by Tatar school students in Tatarstan, Russia. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development. 38(6), 545–557 http://doi.org/10.1080/01434632.2016.1213847

2016

2015

  • Alòs i Font, H., & Tovar-García, E. D. (2015). Factors affecting the knowledge of Chuvash language amongst school students in Russia. Sociolinguistic Studies, 9(4), 345–372. http://doi.org/10.1558/sols.v9i4.26771
  • Tovar-García, E. D. (2015). Market discipline through subordinated debt in mexican banks. Revista de Economia Aplicada, 23(68), 61–80. Retrieved from http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=96943414004
  • Tovar-García, E. D., & Nugroho, I. P. A. (2015). Economic determinants of communal conflict: Evidence from Indonesia. Asia-Pacific Social Science Review, 15(2), 19–32. Retrieved from http://ejournals.ph/form/cite.php?id=6028

2014 

2013

  • Tovar-García, E. D. (2013a). Determinants of Educational Outcomes in Yaroslavl, Russia. Revista Electrónica de Investigación Educativa, 15(2), 100–113. Retrieved from http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1607-40412013000200007&lng=es&nrm=iso
  • Tovar-García, E. D. (2013b). Distsipliniruyut li rossiyskie zaemshchiki svoi banki? (Do Russian borrowers discipline their banks?). Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta. Seriya 6. Economica, (4), 69–79. Retrieved from https://elibrary.ru/item.asp?id=20395309
  • Tovar-García, E. D. (2013c). Hipótesis del mercado eficiente. In N. Levy (Ed.), Dinero, Estructuras Financieras y Financiarización(pp. 111–128). Mexico, D.F.: Ítaca.
  • Tovar-García, E. D. (2013d). Obrazovatel’nye traektorii shkol’nikov Yaroslavskoy oblasti: diskriminantnyy analiz v sravnenii s logisticheskoy regressiey (Educational trajectories of schoolchildren in Yaroslavl oblast: Discriminant analysis in comparison with logistic regression). Sociology: Methodology, Methods, Mathematical Modeling (Sotsiologiya 4M), (36), 65–93. Retrieved from https://elibrary.ru/item.asp?id=20299525
  • Tovar-García, E. D. (2013e). Svyaz’ mezhdu obrazovaniem roditeley i uspevaemost’yu i obrazovatel’nymi traektoriyami shkol’nikov v Tatarstane (Relationship among parental education, educational achievements and educational trajectories of schoolchildren in Tatarstan). Voprosy Obrazovania (Educational Studies Moscow), 2, 252–269. http://doi.org/10.17323/1814-9545-2013-2-252-269

2012 

2011

Contacto

dtovar@up.edu.mx