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María José Moral is an Associate Professor at UNED, the National University of Distance Education, in Spain. Previously, she was Associate Professor at the University of Vigo and at the European University of Madrid. She did her PhD in Economics at Complutense University of Madrid in 1999. 

María José works in the field of Empirical Industrial Organization with a special interest in structural microeconomics. Since her Ph.D. thesis, she has been using discrete choice models and, in particular, the BLP estimation approach to study Spanish sectors and how firms and consumers respond to environmental regulations and fiscal policies.

Her research has been published in leading journals such as The RAND Journal of Economics, The Energy Journal, Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, and the International Journal of Industrial Organization, among others.

Since 2008, María José has been a Research Fellow at FUNCAS, a Spanish think tank, where she has developed an intense work of knowledge transfer, organizing seminars and conferences and publishing articles and reports on the Spanish economic sectors.

María José has been a Research Visiting Fellow at several institutions, including the Department of Economics at Harvard University (with Prof. Ariel Pakes), the University of Pennsylvania (with Prof. Eugenio J. Miravete), and is currently visiting CEMFI (Spain).