Fabio Canova

      Fabio Canova earned his Ph.D. in Economics at the University of Minnesota in 1989. He has been an Assistant Professor at Brown University and Rochester, an Associate Professor at Brown University and the European University Institute and a Full Professor at the University of Catania, Modena and Pompeu Fabra. He is also part-time professor at the University of Southampton. Besides the above places, he has taught courses at various summer schools, University of Minnesota, CIDE, Prometeia, National Bank of Hungary, Ministry of Finance of Indonesia, IMF and University of Naples and Sorbone, among other places.

      His research interests include quantitative macroeconomics, monetary theory, international business cycles and macroeconometrics.

      He has been Associate Editor of the European Economic Review, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Journal of Macrodynamics, and Investigaciones Económicas. He is also a Research Fellow at the CEPR and consultant with various monetary institutions.

Selected publications:

• “The Macroeconomic Effects of German Unification”, Review of Economic Dynamics, September 2000.
• “Detrending and Business Cycle Facts”, Journal of Monetary Economics, June 1998.
• “Sources and Propagations of International Output Fluctuations: Common Shocks or Transmission? “, (with J. Marrinan) Journal of International Economics, November 1998.

Antonio Ciccone

      Antonio Ciccone earned a MSc in Econometrics and Mathematical Economics at the London School of Economics in 1990 and a PhD in Economics at Stanford University in 1994. He is currently Associate Professor at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra. He was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley for 1994/1995-1998/1999 and a Visiting Professor at UPF for 1994/1995-1995/1996 and 1998/1999.

      He is a fellow of the CEPR and associate editor of the European Economic Review. His teaching focuses mostly on advanced macroeconomics, which he taught at Berkeley, Stanford, and UPF and the European Central Bank. His research interests are in macroeconomics, development economics, and regional economics.

Selected publications:

• “Productivity and the Density of Economic Activity,” American Economic Review, March 1996 (with Robert Hall).
• “Agglomeration Effects in Europe”, European Economic Review, forthcoming.
• “Efficiency and Equilibrium with Locally Increasing Aggregate Returns Due to Demand Complementarities,” Econometrica, May 1999. With Kiminori Matsuyama.

Jordi Galí

      Jordi Galí earned his Ph.D. in Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1989. He has been an Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Business at Columbia University and a Professor in the Department of Economics at New York University. He is the Director of CREI and Professor at UPF’s Department of Economics. In addition he has taught courses at Yale University, CEMFI, the European Commission (DG-II), Bank of Finland, and Bank of Portugal, ECARES and Studenzentrum Gerzensee, among other places.

      His research interests include macroeconomics, monetary theory, and macroeconometrics.

      He is a co-editor of the European Economic Review, and a member of the Board of Editors of the American Economic Review, among other editorial activities. He is the co-director of the International Macroeconomics Programme of the CEPR, as well as a Research Fellow at the NBER.

Selected publications:

• “Monetary Policy Rules and Macroeconomic Stability: Evidence and Some Theory” (with R. Clarida and M. Gertler), Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2000.
• “Inflation Dynamics: A Structural Econometric Analysis” (with M. Gertler), Journal of Monetary Economics, vol. 44, no. 2, 195-222, 1999.
• “The Science of Monetary Policy: A New Keynesian Perspective” (with R. Clarida and M. Gertler), Journal of Economic Literature, vol 37, no. 4, 1661-1707, 1999.

Albert Marcet

      Albert Marcet graduated in Economics at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (1982) and earned his Ph.D. in Economics at the University of Minnesota (1987).

      He is Professor of Economics at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra from its beginning. He has also been professor at Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh (1986-1992) and Visiting Professor at the London Business School, CEMFI (Madrid), the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, Institut d’Anàlisi Econòmica and the Universitat Autònoma of Barcelona.

      His main areas of research are: macroeconomics, fiscal policy, solution methods of dynamic models, financial economy and learning models.

Selected publications:

• “Simulation Analysis of Stochastic Dynamic Models: Applications to Theory and Estimation”, 1994, in Advances in Econometrics, Sixth World Congress of the Econometric Society, ed. C.A. Sims. Cambridge University Press.
• “Accuracy in Simulations” (joint with W. den Haan) Review of Economic Studies, January 1994.
• “Equilibrium Asset Prices and Savings in a Model with Heterogeneous Agents, Incomplete Markets and Liquidity Constraints”, (joint with K. Singleton), June 1999, Macroeconomic Dynamics.

Gilles Saint-Paul

      Gilles Saint-Paul earned his Ph.D. in Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1990. He has been a researcher at CERAS and DELTA (Paris) and a fellow of the CEPR since 1991. He has taught courses at MIT, CEMFI, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Université de Toulouse, UCLA, and the European Commission, among other places. Currently he is a Professor at UPF.

      His research interests include macroeconomics, labor economics, public finance and political economy.

      He is a member of the Council of the European Economic Association, and a member of the Editorial Board of Labour Economics and Macroeconomic Dynamics

Selected publications:

• “On the Distribution of Income and Worker Assignment under Intra-Firm Spillovers, with an Application to Ideas and Networks”, Journal of Political Economy, 109, 1, 2001, 1-37.
• The Political Economy of Labour Market Institutions, Oxford U. Press, 2000.
• “The Role of Rents to Human Capital in Economics Development”, Journal of Development Economics, 53 August 1997, 229-249.

Xavier Sala-i-Martin

      Xavier Sala-i-Martin earned his Ph.D. in Economics at Harvard in 1990. Currently he is Professor in the Department of Economics at Columbia University, and a Visiting Professor at UPF. He has been an associate Professor at the Department of Economics at Yale University. He has taught courses at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Harvard University, New York University, Yale University and the International Monetary Fund, among other places.

      His research interests include economic growth, macroeconomics, public finance and social security, health and population economics, and monetary economics.

      He is a member of the Board of Editors of the Journal of Economic Growth, Macroeconomics Dynamics, and Economics Letters. He is also a Research Fellow at the CEPR and the NBER a fellow of the Davos World Economic Forum and a consultant for the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.

Selected publications:

• Economic Growth, 2nd print MIT Press, Cambridge, MA. 1998 (1st print, McGraw Hill, 1995). With Robert Barro. Second Edition, forthcoming 2001.
• “Extensive Margins and the demand for money at low interest rates”, Journal of Political Economy, October 2000. With Casey Mulligan.
• “Measuring Human Capital”, Journal of Economics Growth, September 2000. With Casey Mulligan.
• “Health Investment Complementarities under Competing Risks,” American Economic Review¸ December 1999. With Will Dow and Tom Philipson. This paper was awarded the Ken Arrow prize for best 1999 paper in Health Economics by the International Health Economics Association.

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• by bus: Aerobus. This bus takes you to and from the airport every 15 minutes with stops at Plaça Catalunya, Passeig deGràcia and Plaça Espanya.
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