G. Benigno, L. Fornaro and M. Wolf,
"The Global Financial Resource Curse"
Forthcoming in American Economic Review, 2024
Monetary Policy Design in the Presence of Nominal Rigidities
|
| Instructor: |
Jordi Galí |
| Selected Topics: |
– A simple framework for monetary policy analysis
– Sticky prices and monetary policy
– Sticky wages and monetary policy
– Monetary policy design for open economies |
| Dates: |
June 17-21 |
| Time: |
9:00-11:00 (10 hours) |
| Maximum Capacity: |
35 |
| Price: |
350 euros |
| |
|
Advanced Methods for Applied Macroeconomics
|
| Instructor: |
Fabio Canova |
| Selected Topics: |
– Topics in structural VAR’s (calculation of error bands for impulse responses/variance decompositon, generalized impulse responses, problems in implementing SVAR).
– Structural estimation methods (GMM and simulation estimators)
– Maximum likelihood estimators of DSGE models calibration, simulation, and model evaluation techniques
– Bayesian methods with applications to VAR, Panel VAR, DSGE models |
| Dates: |
June 17-21 |
| Time: |
Lectures 11:00-13:00 / Lab. 14:00-15:00 (15 hours) |
| Maximum Capacity: |
100 |
| Price: |
500 euros |
| |
|
Asset Pricing under Incomplete Market
|
| Instructor: |
Albert Marcet |
| Selected Topics: |
– Formulation of asset prices in dynamic stochastic equilibrium models with heterogeneous agents under Complete, versus Incomplete Markets
– Exogenously incomplete markets (small number of assets and debt limits)
– Behavior of asset prices under incomplete markets
– Endogenously incomplete markets (non-default constraints)
– Recursive contracts |
| Dates: |
June 17-21 |
| Time: |
15:00-17:00 (10 hours) |
| Maximum Capacity: |
35 |
| Price: |
350 euros |
| |
|
International Capital Flows
|
| Instructor: |
Jaume Ventura |
| Selected Topics: |
– Portfolio models of capital flows
– Sovereign risk and default
– Asset price bubles and the world allocation of investment
– Speculative attacks on currencies |
| Dates: |
June 17-21 |
| Time: |
17:00-19:00 (10 hours) |
| Maximum Capacity: |
35 |
| Price: |
350 euros |
| |
|
Economic Growth
|
| Instructors: |
Antonio Ciccone and Xavier Sala-i-Martin |
| Selected Topics: |
– Neoclassical growth theory: background theory and the convergence debate
– Models of endogenous growth and technological change: theory and evidence
– The tragedy of Africa: the role of AIDS/Malaria, European trade restrictions, and primary goods prices
– AIDS, R&D, patents, generics and South Africa
– The recent growth accounting controversy and economic growth in East Asia
– Empirical determinants of economic growth, robustness and millions of regressions
– The world income distribution and globalization: are inequality and poverty increasing over time?
– Miracles, disasters and new theories of development
– The growth of cities and regions
– New evidence on the relationship between growth and the personal income distribution
– Foreign aid, economic policies, and growth
– Institutions and per capita income around the world
– The role of trade and scale of growth |
| Dates: |
June 25-28 |
| Time: |
10:30-13:00 and 14:00-16:30 (20 hours) |
| Maximum Capacity: |
40 |
| Price: |
550 euros |
| |
|
Political Economy
|
| Instructor: |
Gilles Saint-Paul |
| Selected Topics: |
– Redistributive conflicts among income groups and consequences for growth
– The political economy of social security systems
– The impact of political constitutions on fiscal performance
– Models of representative democracy and lobbying |
| Dates: |
June 25-28 |
| Time: |
17:00-19:30 (10 hours) |
| Maximum Capacity: |
35 |
| Price: |
350 euros |
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 and London Business School.
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, Central European University, Di Tella University 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 the European Central Bank and the Bank of England.
Selected publications:
- “Monetary Disturbances Matter for Business Fluctuations in the G-7” (with G. De Nicolo),Journal of Monetary Economics, 2002.
- “Forecasting and Turning Point Predictions in a Bayesian Panel VAR model” (with M. Ciccarelli), forthcoming Journal of Econometrics.
- “Did Colonization Matter for Growth? An Empirical Exploration into the Historical Causes of Africa’s Underdevelopment”, forthcoming European Economic Review.
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 1994-1999 and a Visiting Professor at UPF for 1994-1996 and 1998-1999.
He is a fellow of the CEPR, associate editor of the European Economic Review, and member of the editorial board of The Review of Economic Studies. His teaching focuses on advanced macroeconomics, which he taught at Berkeley, Stanford, UPF as well as the European Commission 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).
- “Efficiency and Equilibrium with Locally Increasing Aggregate Returns Due to Demand Complementarities,” Econometrica, May 1999 (with Kiminori Matsuyama).
- “Input Chains and Industrialization,” forthcoming The Review of Economics Studies.
Jordi Galí
Jordi Galí earned his Ph.D. in Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1989. He has held academic positions at New York University and Columbia University. Currently he is the director of the Center for Research on International Economics (CREI) and a Professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra. He is a co-editor of the European Economic Review and co-director of the International Macroeconomics Programme of the CEPR. He is also a Research Associate at the NBER, and a Visiting Scholar at the Bank of Spain. His research interests include macroeconomics, monetary theory, and macroeconometrics.
Selected publications:
- “Technology, Employment, and the Business Cycle: Do Technology Shocks Explain Aggregate Fluctuations?” American Economic Review, March 1999.
- “Monetary Policy Rules and Macroeconomic Stability: Evidence and Some Theory”, (with R. Clarida and M. Gertler), Quarterly Journal of Economics, January 2000.
- “The Science of Monetary Policy: A New Keynesian Perspective,” Journal of Economic Literature, December 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 has been a visitor at the ECB, 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 economics and learning models.
Selected publications:
- “Equilibrium Asset Prices and Savings in a Model with Heterogeneous Agents, Incomplete Markets and Liquidity Constraints”, (joint with K. Singleton), June 1999, Macroeconomic Dynamics.
- “Recurrent Hyperinflations and Learning” (joint with J. P. Nicolini), forthcoming inAmerican Economic Review.
- “Optimal Taxation without State-Contingent Debt” (joint with T. J. Sargent and J. Seppala) forthcoming in Journal of Political Economy.
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, of which he is programme director since 2001. He has been professor at UPF from 1997 to 2000. 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 Université des Sciences Sociales, Toulouse.
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 European Economic Review, Labour Economics, and Macroeconomic Dynamics.
Selected publications:
- “The Political Economy of Employment Protection”, Journal of Political Economy, forthcoming 2002.
- “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.
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.
- “Health Investment Complementarities under Competing Risks” American Economic Review¸ December 1999. With Will Dow and Tom Philipson.
Jaume Ventura
Jaume Ventura earned his Ph.D. in Economics at Harvard University in 1995. Currently he is the Pentti Kouri Career Development Associate Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is also a Faculty Research Fellow at the NBER, a Research Affiliate at the CEPR, and associate editor of the Review of Economics and Statistics, the Bepress Journals in Macroeconomics and Moneda y Crédito. He has also taught at the University of Chicago and INSEAD, and served as a consultant for The World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank. His research interests include international economics and macroeconomics.
Selected publications:
- “A Representative Consumer Theory of Distribution” (with F. Caselli), American Economic Review, September 2000.
- “Current Accounts in Debtor and Creditor Countries” (with A. Kraay), Quarterly Journal of Economics, November 2000.
- “The World Income Distribution” (with D. Acemoglu), Quarterly Journal of Economics, May 2002.
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Barcelona receives thousands of visitors, especially in summer.
Please, make your reservations directly as soon as possible.
Residence Halls
Residence Hall for Researchers (comfort)
C/Hospital, 64
08001-Barcelona
Tel. (+34) 93 443 8610
Fax. (+34) 93 442 8202
resa.inv@mx4.redestb.es
http://www.resa.es/csic/home.htm
Residencias Juevenes-El Campus
C/Mallorca, 191, Pral.
jmpresi@arrakis.es
http://www.arrakis.es/~jmpresi/index.htm
APIMEC Residencia Universitaria
C/Bruc, 136
residencia.apimec@caixaterrasa.com
http://www.habitatgejove.com/residen/apimec/default.htm
BARCELONAUTA
C/Sardenya, 326-328 entol. 2
bcnauta@comb.es
Useful Links
How to get to the city from the airport?
There are several ways:
- 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.
- by train. RENFE, every 30 minutes with stops at Barcelona Sants, Plaça Catalunya, Arc de Triomf i Clot.
Information about public transportation from the Airport to Barcelona
- by taxi. It can cost from Euros 18 to 24 depending on the day, time, etc.
How to get to the UPF?
See the Barcelona Subway Map or Information on Barcelona Subway
How to get to CREI (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) from the nearest metro station?
The nearest metro station is “Ciutadella-Vila Olímpica” and belongs to L4 line (yellow one). When you get the street (Ramon Trias Fargas) you just have to walk up and you will find the university on your left.
For further information you can visit:
L. Althoff and H. Reichardt,
"Jim Crow and Black Economic Progress After Slavery"
Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2024, 139 (4), 2279-2330
Monetary Policy Design in the Presence of Nominal Rigidities
|
| Instructor: |
Jordi Galí |
| Selected Topics: |
– A simple framework for monetary policy analysis
– Sticky prices and monetary policy
– Sticky wages and monetary policy
– Monetary policy design for open economies |
| Dates: |
June 17-21 |
| Time: |
9:00-11:00 (10 hours) |
| Maximum Capacity: |
35 |
| Price: |
350 euros |
| |
|
Advanced Methods for Applied Macroeconomics
|
| Instructor: |
Fabio Canova |
| Selected Topics: |
– Topics in structural VAR’s (calculation of error bands for impulse responses/variance decompositon, generalized impulse responses, problems in implementing SVAR).
– Structural estimation methods (GMM and simulation estimators)
– Maximum likelihood estimators of DSGE models calibration, simulation, and model evaluation techniques
– Bayesian methods with applications to VAR, Panel VAR, DSGE models |
| Dates: |
June 17-21 |
| Time: |
Lectures 11:00-13:00 / Lab. 14:00-15:00 (15 hours) |
| Maximum Capacity: |
100 |
| Price: |
500 euros |
| |
|
Asset Pricing under Incomplete Market
|
| Instructor: |
Albert Marcet |
| Selected Topics: |
– Formulation of asset prices in dynamic stochastic equilibrium models with heterogeneous agents under Complete, versus Incomplete Markets
– Exogenously incomplete markets (small number of assets and debt limits)
– Behavior of asset prices under incomplete markets
– Endogenously incomplete markets (non-default constraints)
– Recursive contracts |
| Dates: |
June 17-21 |
| Time: |
15:00-17:00 (10 hours) |
| Maximum Capacity: |
35 |
| Price: |
350 euros |
| |
|
International Capital Flows
|
| Instructor: |
Jaume Ventura |
| Selected Topics: |
– Portfolio models of capital flows
– Sovereign risk and default
– Asset price bubles and the world allocation of investment
– Speculative attacks on currencies |
| Dates: |
June 17-21 |
| Time: |
17:00-19:00 (10 hours) |
| Maximum Capacity: |
35 |
| Price: |
350 euros |
| |
|
Economic Growth
|
| Instructors: |
Antonio Ciccone and Xavier Sala-i-Martin |
| Selected Topics: |
– Neoclassical growth theory: background theory and the convergence debate
– Models of endogenous growth and technological change: theory and evidence
– The tragedy of Africa: the role of AIDS/Malaria, European trade restrictions, and primary goods prices
– AIDS, R&D, patents, generics and South Africa
– The recent growth accounting controversy and economic growth in East Asia
– Empirical determinants of economic growth, robustness and millions of regressions
– The world income distribution and globalization: are inequality and poverty increasing over time?
– Miracles, disasters and new theories of development
– The growth of cities and regions
– New evidence on the relationship between growth and the personal income distribution
– Foreign aid, economic policies, and growth
– Institutions and per capita income around the world
– The role of trade and scale of growth |
| Dates: |
June 25-28 |
| Time: |
10:30-13:00 and 14:00-16:30 (20 hours) |
| Maximum Capacity: |
40 |
| Price: |
550 euros |
| |
|
Political Economy
|
| Instructor: |
Gilles Saint-Paul |
| Selected Topics: |
– Redistributive conflicts among income groups and consequences for growth
– The political economy of social security systems
– The impact of political constitutions on fiscal performance
– Models of representative democracy and lobbying |
| Dates: |
June 25-28 |
| Time: |
17:00-19:30 (10 hours) |
| Maximum Capacity: |
35 |
| Price: |
350 euros |
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 and London Business School.
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, Central European University, Di Tella University 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 the European Central Bank and the Bank of England.
Selected publications:
- “Monetary Disturbances Matter for Business Fluctuations in the G-7” (with G. De Nicolo),Journal of Monetary Economics, 2002.
- “Forecasting and Turning Point Predictions in a Bayesian Panel VAR model” (with M. Ciccarelli), forthcoming Journal of Econometrics.
- “Did Colonization Matter for Growth? An Empirical Exploration into the Historical Causes of Africa’s Underdevelopment”, forthcoming European Economic Review.
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 1994-1999 and a Visiting Professor at UPF for 1994-1996 and 1998-1999.
He is a fellow of the CEPR, associate editor of the European Economic Review, and member of the editorial board of The Review of Economic Studies. His teaching focuses on advanced macroeconomics, which he taught at Berkeley, Stanford, UPF as well as the European Commission 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).
- “Efficiency and Equilibrium with Locally Increasing Aggregate Returns Due to Demand Complementarities,” Econometrica, May 1999 (with Kiminori Matsuyama).
- “Input Chains and Industrialization,” forthcoming The Review of Economics Studies.
Jordi Galí
Jordi Galí earned his Ph.D. in Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1989. He has held academic positions at New York University and Columbia University. Currently he is the director of the Center for Research on International Economics (CREI) and a Professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra. He is a co-editor of the European Economic Review and co-director of the International Macroeconomics Programme of the CEPR. He is also a Research Associate at the NBER, and a Visiting Scholar at the Bank of Spain. His research interests include macroeconomics, monetary theory, and macroeconometrics.
Selected publications:
- “Technology, Employment, and the Business Cycle: Do Technology Shocks Explain Aggregate Fluctuations?” American Economic Review, March 1999.
- “Monetary Policy Rules and Macroeconomic Stability: Evidence and Some Theory”, (with R. Clarida and M. Gertler), Quarterly Journal of Economics, January 2000.
- “The Science of Monetary Policy: A New Keynesian Perspective,” Journal of Economic Literature, December 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 has been a visitor at the ECB, 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 economics and learning models.
Selected publications:
- “Equilibrium Asset Prices and Savings in a Model with Heterogeneous Agents, Incomplete Markets and Liquidity Constraints”, (joint with K. Singleton), June 1999, Macroeconomic Dynamics.
- “Recurrent Hyperinflations and Learning” (joint with J. P. Nicolini), forthcoming inAmerican Economic Review.
- “Optimal Taxation without State-Contingent Debt” (joint with T. J. Sargent and J. Seppala) forthcoming in Journal of Political Economy.
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, of which he is programme director since 2001. He has been professor at UPF from 1997 to 2000. 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 Université des Sciences Sociales, Toulouse.
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 European Economic Review, Labour Economics, and Macroeconomic Dynamics.
Selected publications:
- “The Political Economy of Employment Protection”, Journal of Political Economy, forthcoming 2002.
- “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.
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.
- “Health Investment Complementarities under Competing Risks” American Economic Review¸ December 1999. With Will Dow and Tom Philipson.
Jaume Ventura
Jaume Ventura earned his Ph.D. in Economics at Harvard University in 1995. Currently he is the Pentti Kouri Career Development Associate Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is also a Faculty Research Fellow at the NBER, a Research Affiliate at the CEPR, and associate editor of the Review of Economics and Statistics, the Bepress Journals in Macroeconomics and Moneda y Crédito. He has also taught at the University of Chicago and INSEAD, and served as a consultant for The World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank. His research interests include international economics and macroeconomics.
Selected publications:
- “A Representative Consumer Theory of Distribution” (with F. Caselli), American Economic Review, September 2000.
- “Current Accounts in Debtor and Creditor Countries” (with A. Kraay), Quarterly Journal of Economics, November 2000.
- “The World Income Distribution” (with D. Acemoglu), Quarterly Journal of Economics, May 2002.
Download file
Barcelona receives thousands of visitors, especially in summer.
Please, make your reservations directly as soon as possible.
Residence Halls
Residence Hall for Researchers (comfort)
C/Hospital, 64
08001-Barcelona
Tel. (+34) 93 443 8610
Fax. (+34) 93 442 8202
resa.inv@mx4.redestb.es
http://www.resa.es/csic/home.htm
Residencias Juevenes-El Campus
C/Mallorca, 191, Pral.
jmpresi@arrakis.es
http://www.arrakis.es/~jmpresi/index.htm
APIMEC Residencia Universitaria
C/Bruc, 136
residencia.apimec@caixaterrasa.com
http://www.habitatgejove.com/residen/apimec/default.htm
BARCELONAUTA
C/Sardenya, 326-328 entol. 2
bcnauta@comb.es
Useful Links
How to get to the city from the airport?
There are several ways:
- 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.
- by train. RENFE, every 30 minutes with stops at Barcelona Sants, Plaça Catalunya, Arc de Triomf i Clot.
Information about public transportation from the Airport to Barcelona
- by taxi. It can cost from Euros 18 to 24 depending on the day, time, etc.
How to get to the UPF?
See the Barcelona Subway Map or Information on Barcelona Subway
How to get to CREI (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) from the nearest metro station?
The nearest metro station is “Ciutadella-Vila Olímpica” and belongs to L4 line (yellow one). When you get the street (Ramon Trias Fargas) you just have to walk up and you will find the university on your left.
For further information you can visit:
Galí, J. and D. Debortoli,
"Idiosyncratic Income Risk and Aggregate Fluctuations"
American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2024, 16(4), 279–310
Monetary Policy Design in the Presence of Nominal Rigidities
|
| Instructor: |
Jordi Galí |
| Selected Topics: |
– A simple framework for monetary policy analysis
– Sticky prices and monetary policy
– Sticky wages and monetary policy
– Monetary policy design for open economies |
| Dates: |
June 17-21 |
| Time: |
9:00-11:00 (10 hours) |
| Maximum Capacity: |
35 |
| Price: |
350 euros |
| |
|
Advanced Methods for Applied Macroeconomics
|
| Instructor: |
Fabio Canova |
| Selected Topics: |
– Topics in structural VAR’s (calculation of error bands for impulse responses/variance decompositon, generalized impulse responses, problems in implementing SVAR).
– Structural estimation methods (GMM and simulation estimators)
– Maximum likelihood estimators of DSGE models calibration, simulation, and model evaluation techniques
– Bayesian methods with applications to VAR, Panel VAR, DSGE models |
| Dates: |
June 17-21 |
| Time: |
Lectures 11:00-13:00 / Lab. 14:00-15:00 (15 hours) |
| Maximum Capacity: |
100 |
| Price: |
500 euros |
| |
|
Asset Pricing under Incomplete Market
|
| Instructor: |
Albert Marcet |
| Selected Topics: |
– Formulation of asset prices in dynamic stochastic equilibrium models with heterogeneous agents under Complete, versus Incomplete Markets
– Exogenously incomplete markets (small number of assets and debt limits)
– Behavior of asset prices under incomplete markets
– Endogenously incomplete markets (non-default constraints)
– Recursive contracts |
| Dates: |
June 17-21 |
| Time: |
15:00-17:00 (10 hours) |
| Maximum Capacity: |
35 |
| Price: |
350 euros |
| |
|
International Capital Flows
|
| Instructor: |
Jaume Ventura |
| Selected Topics: |
– Portfolio models of capital flows
– Sovereign risk and default
– Asset price bubles and the world allocation of investment
– Speculative attacks on currencies |
| Dates: |
June 17-21 |
| Time: |
17:00-19:00 (10 hours) |
| Maximum Capacity: |
35 |
| Price: |
350 euros |
| |
|
Economic Growth
|
| Instructors: |
Antonio Ciccone and Xavier Sala-i-Martin |
| Selected Topics: |
– Neoclassical growth theory: background theory and the convergence debate
– Models of endogenous growth and technological change: theory and evidence
– The tragedy of Africa: the role of AIDS/Malaria, European trade restrictions, and primary goods prices
– AIDS, R&D, patents, generics and South Africa
– The recent growth accounting controversy and economic growth in East Asia
– Empirical determinants of economic growth, robustness and millions of regressions
– The world income distribution and globalization: are inequality and poverty increasing over time?
– Miracles, disasters and new theories of development
– The growth of cities and regions
– New evidence on the relationship between growth and the personal income distribution
– Foreign aid, economic policies, and growth
– Institutions and per capita income around the world
– The role of trade and scale of growth |
| Dates: |
June 25-28 |
| Time: |
10:30-13:00 and 14:00-16:30 (20 hours) |
| Maximum Capacity: |
40 |
| Price: |
550 euros |
| |
|
Political Economy
|
| Instructor: |
Gilles Saint-Paul |
| Selected Topics: |
– Redistributive conflicts among income groups and consequences for growth
– The political economy of social security systems
– The impact of political constitutions on fiscal performance
– Models of representative democracy and lobbying |
| Dates: |
June 25-28 |
| Time: |
17:00-19:30 (10 hours) |
| Maximum Capacity: |
35 |
| Price: |
350 euros |
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 and London Business School.
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, Central European University, Di Tella University 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 the European Central Bank and the Bank of England.
Selected publications:
- “Monetary Disturbances Matter for Business Fluctuations in the G-7” (with G. De Nicolo),Journal of Monetary Economics, 2002.
- “Forecasting and Turning Point Predictions in a Bayesian Panel VAR model” (with M. Ciccarelli), forthcoming Journal of Econometrics.
- “Did Colonization Matter for Growth? An Empirical Exploration into the Historical Causes of Africa’s Underdevelopment”, forthcoming European Economic Review.
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 1994-1999 and a Visiting Professor at UPF for 1994-1996 and 1998-1999.
He is a fellow of the CEPR, associate editor of the European Economic Review, and member of the editorial board of The Review of Economic Studies. His teaching focuses on advanced macroeconomics, which he taught at Berkeley, Stanford, UPF as well as the European Commission 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).
- “Efficiency and Equilibrium with Locally Increasing Aggregate Returns Due to Demand Complementarities,” Econometrica, May 1999 (with Kiminori Matsuyama).
- “Input Chains and Industrialization,” forthcoming The Review of Economics Studies.
Jordi Galí
Jordi Galí earned his Ph.D. in Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1989. He has held academic positions at New York University and Columbia University. Currently he is the director of the Center for Research on International Economics (CREI) and a Professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra. He is a co-editor of the European Economic Review and co-director of the International Macroeconomics Programme of the CEPR. He is also a Research Associate at the NBER, and a Visiting Scholar at the Bank of Spain. His research interests include macroeconomics, monetary theory, and macroeconometrics.
Selected publications:
- “Technology, Employment, and the Business Cycle: Do Technology Shocks Explain Aggregate Fluctuations?” American Economic Review, March 1999.
- “Monetary Policy Rules and Macroeconomic Stability: Evidence and Some Theory”, (with R. Clarida and M. Gertler), Quarterly Journal of Economics, January 2000.
- “The Science of Monetary Policy: A New Keynesian Perspective,” Journal of Economic Literature, December 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 has been a visitor at the ECB, 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 economics and learning models.
Selected publications:
- “Equilibrium Asset Prices and Savings in a Model with Heterogeneous Agents, Incomplete Markets and Liquidity Constraints”, (joint with K. Singleton), June 1999, Macroeconomic Dynamics.
- “Recurrent Hyperinflations and Learning” (joint with J. P. Nicolini), forthcoming inAmerican Economic Review.
- “Optimal Taxation without State-Contingent Debt” (joint with T. J. Sargent and J. Seppala) forthcoming in Journal of Political Economy.
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, of which he is programme director since 2001. He has been professor at UPF from 1997 to 2000. 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 Université des Sciences Sociales, Toulouse.
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 European Economic Review, Labour Economics, and Macroeconomic Dynamics.
Selected publications:
- “The Political Economy of Employment Protection”, Journal of Political Economy, forthcoming 2002.
- “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.
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.
- “Health Investment Complementarities under Competing Risks” American Economic Review¸ December 1999. With Will Dow and Tom Philipson.
Jaume Ventura
Jaume Ventura earned his Ph.D. in Economics at Harvard University in 1995. Currently he is the Pentti Kouri Career Development Associate Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is also a Faculty Research Fellow at the NBER, a Research Affiliate at the CEPR, and associate editor of the Review of Economics and Statistics, the Bepress Journals in Macroeconomics and Moneda y Crédito. He has also taught at the University of Chicago and INSEAD, and served as a consultant for The World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank. His research interests include international economics and macroeconomics.
Selected publications:
- “A Representative Consumer Theory of Distribution” (with F. Caselli), American Economic Review, September 2000.
- “Current Accounts in Debtor and Creditor Countries” (with A. Kraay), Quarterly Journal of Economics, November 2000.
- “The World Income Distribution” (with D. Acemoglu), Quarterly Journal of Economics, May 2002.
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Barcelona receives thousands of visitors, especially in summer.
Please, make your reservations directly as soon as possible.
Residence Halls
Residence Hall for Researchers (comfort)
C/Hospital, 64
08001-Barcelona
Tel. (+34) 93 443 8610
Fax. (+34) 93 442 8202
resa.inv@mx4.redestb.es
http://www.resa.es/csic/home.htm
Residencias Juevenes-El Campus
C/Mallorca, 191, Pral.
jmpresi@arrakis.es
http://www.arrakis.es/~jmpresi/index.htm
APIMEC Residencia Universitaria
C/Bruc, 136
residencia.apimec@caixaterrasa.com
http://www.habitatgejove.com/residen/apimec/default.htm
BARCELONAUTA
C/Sardenya, 326-328 entol. 2
bcnauta@comb.es
Useful Links
How to get to the city from the airport?
There are several ways:
- 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.
- by train. RENFE, every 30 minutes with stops at Barcelona Sants, Plaça Catalunya, Arc de Triomf i Clot.
Information about public transportation from the Airport to Barcelona
- by taxi. It can cost from Euros 18 to 24 depending on the day, time, etc.
How to get to the UPF?
See the Barcelona Subway Map or Information on Barcelona Subway
How to get to CREI (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) from the nearest metro station?
The nearest metro station is “Ciutadella-Vila Olímpica” and belongs to L4 line (yellow one). When you get the street (Ramon Trias Fargas) you just have to walk up and you will find the university on your left.
For further information you can visit:
Ponzetto, G. and U. Troiano,
"Social Capital, Government Expenditures, and Growth"
Forthcoming in Journal of the European Economic Association, 2024
Monetary Policy Design in the Presence of Nominal Rigidities
|
| Instructor: |
Jordi Galí |
| Selected Topics: |
– A simple framework for monetary policy analysis
– Sticky prices and monetary policy
– Sticky wages and monetary policy
– Monetary policy design for open economies |
| Dates: |
June 17-21 |
| Time: |
9:00-11:00 (10 hours) |
| Maximum Capacity: |
35 |
| Price: |
350 euros |
| |
|
Advanced Methods for Applied Macroeconomics
|
| Instructor: |
Fabio Canova |
| Selected Topics: |
– Topics in structural VAR’s (calculation of error bands for impulse responses/variance decompositon, generalized impulse responses, problems in implementing SVAR).
– Structural estimation methods (GMM and simulation estimators)
– Maximum likelihood estimators of DSGE models calibration, simulation, and model evaluation techniques
– Bayesian methods with applications to VAR, Panel VAR, DSGE models |
| Dates: |
June 17-21 |
| Time: |
Lectures 11:00-13:00 / Lab. 14:00-15:00 (15 hours) |
| Maximum Capacity: |
100 |
| Price: |
500 euros |
| |
|
Asset Pricing under Incomplete Market
|
| Instructor: |
Albert Marcet |
| Selected Topics: |
– Formulation of asset prices in dynamic stochastic equilibrium models with heterogeneous agents under Complete, versus Incomplete Markets
– Exogenously incomplete markets (small number of assets and debt limits)
– Behavior of asset prices under incomplete markets
– Endogenously incomplete markets (non-default constraints)
– Recursive contracts |
| Dates: |
June 17-21 |
| Time: |
15:00-17:00 (10 hours) |
| Maximum Capacity: |
35 |
| Price: |
350 euros |
| |
|
International Capital Flows
|
| Instructor: |
Jaume Ventura |
| Selected Topics: |
– Portfolio models of capital flows
– Sovereign risk and default
– Asset price bubles and the world allocation of investment
– Speculative attacks on currencies |
| Dates: |
June 17-21 |
| Time: |
17:00-19:00 (10 hours) |
| Maximum Capacity: |
35 |
| Price: |
350 euros |
| |
|
Economic Growth
|
| Instructors: |
Antonio Ciccone and Xavier Sala-i-Martin |
| Selected Topics: |
– Neoclassical growth theory: background theory and the convergence debate
– Models of endogenous growth and technological change: theory and evidence
– The tragedy of Africa: the role of AIDS/Malaria, European trade restrictions, and primary goods prices
– AIDS, R&D, patents, generics and South Africa
– The recent growth accounting controversy and economic growth in East Asia
– Empirical determinants of economic growth, robustness and millions of regressions
– The world income distribution and globalization: are inequality and poverty increasing over time?
– Miracles, disasters and new theories of development
– The growth of cities and regions
– New evidence on the relationship between growth and the personal income distribution
– Foreign aid, economic policies, and growth
– Institutions and per capita income around the world
– The role of trade and scale of growth |
| Dates: |
June 25-28 |
| Time: |
10:30-13:00 and 14:00-16:30 (20 hours) |
| Maximum Capacity: |
40 |
| Price: |
550 euros |
| |
|
Political Economy
|
| Instructor: |
Gilles Saint-Paul |
| Selected Topics: |
– Redistributive conflicts among income groups and consequences for growth
– The political economy of social security systems
– The impact of political constitutions on fiscal performance
– Models of representative democracy and lobbying |
| Dates: |
June 25-28 |
| Time: |
17:00-19:30 (10 hours) |
| Maximum Capacity: |
35 |
| Price: |
350 euros |
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 and London Business School.
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, Central European University, Di Tella University 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 the European Central Bank and the Bank of England.
Selected publications:
- “Monetary Disturbances Matter for Business Fluctuations in the G-7” (with G. De Nicolo),Journal of Monetary Economics, 2002.
- “Forecasting and Turning Point Predictions in a Bayesian Panel VAR model” (with M. Ciccarelli), forthcoming Journal of Econometrics.
- “Did Colonization Matter for Growth? An Empirical Exploration into the Historical Causes of Africa’s Underdevelopment”, forthcoming European Economic Review.
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 1994-1999 and a Visiting Professor at UPF for 1994-1996 and 1998-1999.
He is a fellow of the CEPR, associate editor of the European Economic Review, and member of the editorial board of The Review of Economic Studies. His teaching focuses on advanced macroeconomics, which he taught at Berkeley, Stanford, UPF as well as the European Commission 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).
- “Efficiency and Equilibrium with Locally Increasing Aggregate Returns Due to Demand Complementarities,” Econometrica, May 1999 (with Kiminori Matsuyama).
- “Input Chains and Industrialization,” forthcoming The Review of Economics Studies.
Jordi Galí
Jordi Galí earned his Ph.D. in Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1989. He has held academic positions at New York University and Columbia University. Currently he is the director of the Center for Research on International Economics (CREI) and a Professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra. He is a co-editor of the European Economic Review and co-director of the International Macroeconomics Programme of the CEPR. He is also a Research Associate at the NBER, and a Visiting Scholar at the Bank of Spain. His research interests include macroeconomics, monetary theory, and macroeconometrics.
Selected publications:
- “Technology, Employment, and the Business Cycle: Do Technology Shocks Explain Aggregate Fluctuations?” American Economic Review, March 1999.
- “Monetary Policy Rules and Macroeconomic Stability: Evidence and Some Theory”, (with R. Clarida and M. Gertler), Quarterly Journal of Economics, January 2000.
- “The Science of Monetary Policy: A New Keynesian Perspective,” Journal of Economic Literature, December 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 has been a visitor at the ECB, 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 economics and learning models.
Selected publications:
- “Equilibrium Asset Prices and Savings in a Model with Heterogeneous Agents, Incomplete Markets and Liquidity Constraints”, (joint with K. Singleton), June 1999, Macroeconomic Dynamics.
- “Recurrent Hyperinflations and Learning” (joint with J. P. Nicolini), forthcoming inAmerican Economic Review.
- “Optimal Taxation without State-Contingent Debt” (joint with T. J. Sargent and J. Seppala) forthcoming in Journal of Political Economy.
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, of which he is programme director since 2001. He has been professor at UPF from 1997 to 2000. 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 Université des Sciences Sociales, Toulouse.
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 European Economic Review, Labour Economics, and Macroeconomic Dynamics.
Selected publications:
- “The Political Economy of Employment Protection”, Journal of Political Economy, forthcoming 2002.
- “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.
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.
- “Health Investment Complementarities under Competing Risks” American Economic Review¸ December 1999. With Will Dow and Tom Philipson.
Jaume Ventura
Jaume Ventura earned his Ph.D. in Economics at Harvard University in 1995. Currently he is the Pentti Kouri Career Development Associate Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is also a Faculty Research Fellow at the NBER, a Research Affiliate at the CEPR, and associate editor of the Review of Economics and Statistics, the Bepress Journals in Macroeconomics and Moneda y Crédito. He has also taught at the University of Chicago and INSEAD, and served as a consultant for The World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank. His research interests include international economics and macroeconomics.
Selected publications:
- “A Representative Consumer Theory of Distribution” (with F. Caselli), American Economic Review, September 2000.
- “Current Accounts in Debtor and Creditor Countries” (with A. Kraay), Quarterly Journal of Economics, November 2000.
- “The World Income Distribution” (with D. Acemoglu), Quarterly Journal of Economics, May 2002.
Download file
Barcelona receives thousands of visitors, especially in summer.
Please, make your reservations directly as soon as possible.
Residence Halls
Residence Hall for Researchers (comfort)
C/Hospital, 64
08001-Barcelona
Tel. (+34) 93 443 8610
Fax. (+34) 93 442 8202
resa.inv@mx4.redestb.es
http://www.resa.es/csic/home.htm
Residencias Juevenes-El Campus
C/Mallorca, 191, Pral.
jmpresi@arrakis.es
http://www.arrakis.es/~jmpresi/index.htm
APIMEC Residencia Universitaria
C/Bruc, 136
residencia.apimec@caixaterrasa.com
http://www.habitatgejove.com/residen/apimec/default.htm
BARCELONAUTA
C/Sardenya, 326-328 entol. 2
bcnauta@comb.es
Useful Links
How to get to the city from the airport?
There are several ways:
- 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.
- by train. RENFE, every 30 minutes with stops at Barcelona Sants, Plaça Catalunya, Arc de Triomf i Clot.
Information about public transportation from the Airport to Barcelona
- by taxi. It can cost from Euros 18 to 24 depending on the day, time, etc.
How to get to the UPF?
See the Barcelona Subway Map or Information on Barcelona Subway
How to get to CREI (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) from the nearest metro station?
The nearest metro station is “Ciutadella-Vila Olímpica” and belongs to L4 line (yellow one). When you get the street (Ramon Trias Fargas) you just have to walk up and you will find the university on your left.
For further information you can visit:
Asriyan, V. and V. Vanasco,
"Security Design in Non-Exclusive Markets with Asymmetric Information"
The Review of Economic Studies, 2024, 91/2, 690–719
Monetary Policy Design in the Presence of Nominal Rigidities
|
| Instructor: |
Jordi Galí |
| Selected Topics: |
– A simple framework for monetary policy analysis
– Sticky prices and monetary policy
– Sticky wages and monetary policy
– Monetary policy design for open economies |
| Dates: |
June 17-21 |
| Time: |
9:00-11:00 (10 hours) |
| Maximum Capacity: |
35 |
| Price: |
350 euros |
| |
|
Advanced Methods for Applied Macroeconomics
|
| Instructor: |
Fabio Canova |
| Selected Topics: |
– Topics in structural VAR’s (calculation of error bands for impulse responses/variance decompositon, generalized impulse responses, problems in implementing SVAR).
– Structural estimation methods (GMM and simulation estimators)
– Maximum likelihood estimators of DSGE models calibration, simulation, and model evaluation techniques
– Bayesian methods with applications to VAR, Panel VAR, DSGE models |
| Dates: |
June 17-21 |
| Time: |
Lectures 11:00-13:00 / Lab. 14:00-15:00 (15 hours) |
| Maximum Capacity: |
100 |
| Price: |
500 euros |
| |
|
Asset Pricing under Incomplete Market
|
| Instructor: |
Albert Marcet |
| Selected Topics: |
– Formulation of asset prices in dynamic stochastic equilibrium models with heterogeneous agents under Complete, versus Incomplete Markets
– Exogenously incomplete markets (small number of assets and debt limits)
– Behavior of asset prices under incomplete markets
– Endogenously incomplete markets (non-default constraints)
– Recursive contracts |
| Dates: |
June 17-21 |
| Time: |
15:00-17:00 (10 hours) |
| Maximum Capacity: |
35 |
| Price: |
350 euros |
| |
|
International Capital Flows
|
| Instructor: |
Jaume Ventura |
| Selected Topics: |
– Portfolio models of capital flows
– Sovereign risk and default
– Asset price bubles and the world allocation of investment
– Speculative attacks on currencies |
| Dates: |
June 17-21 |
| Time: |
17:00-19:00 (10 hours) |
| Maximum Capacity: |
35 |
| Price: |
350 euros |
| |
|
Economic Growth
|
| Instructors: |
Antonio Ciccone and Xavier Sala-i-Martin |
| Selected Topics: |
– Neoclassical growth theory: background theory and the convergence debate
– Models of endogenous growth and technological change: theory and evidence
– The tragedy of Africa: the role of AIDS/Malaria, European trade restrictions, and primary goods prices
– AIDS, R&D, patents, generics and South Africa
– The recent growth accounting controversy and economic growth in East Asia
– Empirical determinants of economic growth, robustness and millions of regressions
– The world income distribution and globalization: are inequality and poverty increasing over time?
– Miracles, disasters and new theories of development
– The growth of cities and regions
– New evidence on the relationship between growth and the personal income distribution
– Foreign aid, economic policies, and growth
– Institutions and per capita income around the world
– The role of trade and scale of growth |
| Dates: |
June 25-28 |
| Time: |
10:30-13:00 and 14:00-16:30 (20 hours) |
| Maximum Capacity: |
40 |
| Price: |
550 euros |
| |
|
Political Economy
|
| Instructor: |
Gilles Saint-Paul |
| Selected Topics: |
– Redistributive conflicts among income groups and consequences for growth
– The political economy of social security systems
– The impact of political constitutions on fiscal performance
– Models of representative democracy and lobbying |
| Dates: |
June 25-28 |
| Time: |
17:00-19:30 (10 hours) |
| Maximum Capacity: |
35 |
| Price: |
350 euros |
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 and London Business School.
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, Central European University, Di Tella University 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 the European Central Bank and the Bank of England.
Selected publications:
- “Monetary Disturbances Matter for Business Fluctuations in the G-7” (with G. De Nicolo),Journal of Monetary Economics, 2002.
- “Forecasting and Turning Point Predictions in a Bayesian Panel VAR model” (with M. Ciccarelli), forthcoming Journal of Econometrics.
- “Did Colonization Matter for Growth? An Empirical Exploration into the Historical Causes of Africa’s Underdevelopment”, forthcoming European Economic Review.
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 1994-1999 and a Visiting Professor at UPF for 1994-1996 and 1998-1999.
He is a fellow of the CEPR, associate editor of the European Economic Review, and member of the editorial board of The Review of Economic Studies. His teaching focuses on advanced macroeconomics, which he taught at Berkeley, Stanford, UPF as well as the European Commission 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).
- “Efficiency and Equilibrium with Locally Increasing Aggregate Returns Due to Demand Complementarities,” Econometrica, May 1999 (with Kiminori Matsuyama).
- “Input Chains and Industrialization,” forthcoming The Review of Economics Studies.
Jordi Galí
Jordi Galí earned his Ph.D. in Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1989. He has held academic positions at New York University and Columbia University. Currently he is the director of the Center for Research on International Economics (CREI) and a Professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra. He is a co-editor of the European Economic Review and co-director of the International Macroeconomics Programme of the CEPR. He is also a Research Associate at the NBER, and a Visiting Scholar at the Bank of Spain. His research interests include macroeconomics, monetary theory, and macroeconometrics.
Selected publications:
- “Technology, Employment, and the Business Cycle: Do Technology Shocks Explain Aggregate Fluctuations?” American Economic Review, March 1999.
- “Monetary Policy Rules and Macroeconomic Stability: Evidence and Some Theory”, (with R. Clarida and M. Gertler), Quarterly Journal of Economics, January 2000.
- “The Science of Monetary Policy: A New Keynesian Perspective,” Journal of Economic Literature, December 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 has been a visitor at the ECB, 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 economics and learning models.
Selected publications:
- “Equilibrium Asset Prices and Savings in a Model with Heterogeneous Agents, Incomplete Markets and Liquidity Constraints”, (joint with K. Singleton), June 1999, Macroeconomic Dynamics.
- “Recurrent Hyperinflations and Learning” (joint with J. P. Nicolini), forthcoming inAmerican Economic Review.
- “Optimal Taxation without State-Contingent Debt” (joint with T. J. Sargent and J. Seppala) forthcoming in Journal of Political Economy.
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, of which he is programme director since 2001. He has been professor at UPF from 1997 to 2000. 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 Université des Sciences Sociales, Toulouse.
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 European Economic Review, Labour Economics, and Macroeconomic Dynamics.
Selected publications:
- “The Political Economy of Employment Protection”, Journal of Political Economy, forthcoming 2002.
- “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.
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.
- “Health Investment Complementarities under Competing Risks” American Economic Review¸ December 1999. With Will Dow and Tom Philipson.
Jaume Ventura
Jaume Ventura earned his Ph.D. in Economics at Harvard University in 1995. Currently he is the Pentti Kouri Career Development Associate Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is also a Faculty Research Fellow at the NBER, a Research Affiliate at the CEPR, and associate editor of the Review of Economics and Statistics, the Bepress Journals in Macroeconomics and Moneda y Crédito. He has also taught at the University of Chicago and INSEAD, and served as a consultant for The World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank. His research interests include international economics and macroeconomics.
Selected publications:
- “A Representative Consumer Theory of Distribution” (with F. Caselli), American Economic Review, September 2000.
- “Current Accounts in Debtor and Creditor Countries” (with A. Kraay), Quarterly Journal of Economics, November 2000.
- “The World Income Distribution” (with D. Acemoglu), Quarterly Journal of Economics, May 2002.
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Barcelona receives thousands of visitors, especially in summer.
Please, make your reservations directly as soon as possible.
Residence Halls
Residence Hall for Researchers (comfort)
C/Hospital, 64
08001-Barcelona
Tel. (+34) 93 443 8610
Fax. (+34) 93 442 8202
resa.inv@mx4.redestb.es
http://www.resa.es/csic/home.htm
Residencias Juevenes-El Campus
C/Mallorca, 191, Pral.
jmpresi@arrakis.es
http://www.arrakis.es/~jmpresi/index.htm
APIMEC Residencia Universitaria
C/Bruc, 136
residencia.apimec@caixaterrasa.com
http://www.habitatgejove.com/residen/apimec/default.htm
BARCELONAUTA
C/Sardenya, 326-328 entol. 2
bcnauta@comb.es
Useful Links
How to get to the city from the airport?
There are several ways:
- 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.
- by train. RENFE, every 30 minutes with stops at Barcelona Sants, Plaça Catalunya, Arc de Triomf i Clot.
Information about public transportation from the Airport to Barcelona
- by taxi. It can cost from Euros 18 to 24 depending on the day, time, etc.
How to get to the UPF?
See the Barcelona Subway Map or Information on Barcelona Subway
How to get to CREI (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) from the nearest metro station?
The nearest metro station is “Ciutadella-Vila Olímpica” and belongs to L4 line (yellow one). When you get the street (Ramon Trias Fargas) you just have to walk up and you will find the university on your left.
For further information you can visit:
Asriyan, V., L. Laeven, A. Martin, A. Van der Ghote and V. Vanasco,
"Falling Interest Rates and Credit Reallocation: Lessons from General Equilibrium"
Forthcoming in The Review of Economic Studies, 2024
Monetary Policy Design in the Presence of Nominal Rigidities
|
| Instructor: |
Jordi Galí |
| Selected Topics: |
– A simple framework for monetary policy analysis
– Sticky prices and monetary policy
– Sticky wages and monetary policy
– Monetary policy design for open economies |
| Dates: |
June 17-21 |
| Time: |
9:00-11:00 (10 hours) |
| Maximum Capacity: |
35 |
| Price: |
350 euros |
| |
|
Advanced Methods for Applied Macroeconomics
|
| Instructor: |
Fabio Canova |
| Selected Topics: |
– Topics in structural VAR’s (calculation of error bands for impulse responses/variance decompositon, generalized impulse responses, problems in implementing SVAR).
– Structural estimation methods (GMM and simulation estimators)
– Maximum likelihood estimators of DSGE models calibration, simulation, and model evaluation techniques
– Bayesian methods with applications to VAR, Panel VAR, DSGE models |
| Dates: |
June 17-21 |
| Time: |
Lectures 11:00-13:00 / Lab. 14:00-15:00 (15 hours) |
| Maximum Capacity: |
100 |
| Price: |
500 euros |
| |
|
Asset Pricing under Incomplete Market
|
| Instructor: |
Albert Marcet |
| Selected Topics: |
– Formulation of asset prices in dynamic stochastic equilibrium models with heterogeneous agents under Complete, versus Incomplete Markets
– Exogenously incomplete markets (small number of assets and debt limits)
– Behavior of asset prices under incomplete markets
– Endogenously incomplete markets (non-default constraints)
– Recursive contracts |
| Dates: |
June 17-21 |
| Time: |
15:00-17:00 (10 hours) |
| Maximum Capacity: |
35 |
| Price: |
350 euros |
| |
|
International Capital Flows
|
| Instructor: |
Jaume Ventura |
| Selected Topics: |
– Portfolio models of capital flows
– Sovereign risk and default
– Asset price bubles and the world allocation of investment
– Speculative attacks on currencies |
| Dates: |
June 17-21 |
| Time: |
17:00-19:00 (10 hours) |
| Maximum Capacity: |
35 |
| Price: |
350 euros |
| |
|
Economic Growth
|
| Instructors: |
Antonio Ciccone and Xavier Sala-i-Martin |
| Selected Topics: |
– Neoclassical growth theory: background theory and the convergence debate
– Models of endogenous growth and technological change: theory and evidence
– The tragedy of Africa: the role of AIDS/Malaria, European trade restrictions, and primary goods prices
– AIDS, R&D, patents, generics and South Africa
– The recent growth accounting controversy and economic growth in East Asia
– Empirical determinants of economic growth, robustness and millions of regressions
– The world income distribution and globalization: are inequality and poverty increasing over time?
– Miracles, disasters and new theories of development
– The growth of cities and regions
– New evidence on the relationship between growth and the personal income distribution
– Foreign aid, economic policies, and growth
– Institutions and per capita income around the world
– The role of trade and scale of growth |
| Dates: |
June 25-28 |
| Time: |
10:30-13:00 and 14:00-16:30 (20 hours) |
| Maximum Capacity: |
40 |
| Price: |
550 euros |
| |
|
Political Economy
|
| Instructor: |
Gilles Saint-Paul |
| Selected Topics: |
– Redistributive conflicts among income groups and consequences for growth
– The political economy of social security systems
– The impact of political constitutions on fiscal performance
– Models of representative democracy and lobbying |
| Dates: |
June 25-28 |
| Time: |
17:00-19:30 (10 hours) |
| Maximum Capacity: |
35 |
| Price: |
350 euros |
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 and London Business School.
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, Central European University, Di Tella University 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 the European Central Bank and the Bank of England.
Selected publications:
- “Monetary Disturbances Matter for Business Fluctuations in the G-7” (with G. De Nicolo),Journal of Monetary Economics, 2002.
- “Forecasting and Turning Point Predictions in a Bayesian Panel VAR model” (with M. Ciccarelli), forthcoming Journal of Econometrics.
- “Did Colonization Matter for Growth? An Empirical Exploration into the Historical Causes of Africa’s Underdevelopment”, forthcoming European Economic Review.
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 1994-1999 and a Visiting Professor at UPF for 1994-1996 and 1998-1999.
He is a fellow of the CEPR, associate editor of the European Economic Review, and member of the editorial board of The Review of Economic Studies. His teaching focuses on advanced macroeconomics, which he taught at Berkeley, Stanford, UPF as well as the European Commission 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).
- “Efficiency and Equilibrium with Locally Increasing Aggregate Returns Due to Demand Complementarities,” Econometrica, May 1999 (with Kiminori Matsuyama).
- “Input Chains and Industrialization,” forthcoming The Review of Economics Studies.
Jordi Galí
Jordi Galí earned his Ph.D. in Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1989. He has held academic positions at New York University and Columbia University. Currently he is the director of the Center for Research on International Economics (CREI) and a Professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra. He is a co-editor of the European Economic Review and co-director of the International Macroeconomics Programme of the CEPR. He is also a Research Associate at the NBER, and a Visiting Scholar at the Bank of Spain. His research interests include macroeconomics, monetary theory, and macroeconometrics.
Selected publications:
- “Technology, Employment, and the Business Cycle: Do Technology Shocks Explain Aggregate Fluctuations?” American Economic Review, March 1999.
- “Monetary Policy Rules and Macroeconomic Stability: Evidence and Some Theory”, (with R. Clarida and M. Gertler), Quarterly Journal of Economics, January 2000.
- “The Science of Monetary Policy: A New Keynesian Perspective,” Journal of Economic Literature, December 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 has been a visitor at the ECB, 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 economics and learning models.
Selected publications:
- “Equilibrium Asset Prices and Savings in a Model with Heterogeneous Agents, Incomplete Markets and Liquidity Constraints”, (joint with K. Singleton), June 1999, Macroeconomic Dynamics.
- “Recurrent Hyperinflations and Learning” (joint with J. P. Nicolini), forthcoming inAmerican Economic Review.
- “Optimal Taxation without State-Contingent Debt” (joint with T. J. Sargent and J. Seppala) forthcoming in Journal of Political Economy.
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, of which he is programme director since 2001. He has been professor at UPF from 1997 to 2000. 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 Université des Sciences Sociales, Toulouse.
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 European Economic Review, Labour Economics, and Macroeconomic Dynamics.
Selected publications:
- “The Political Economy of Employment Protection”, Journal of Political Economy, forthcoming 2002.
- “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.
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.
- “Health Investment Complementarities under Competing Risks” American Economic Review¸ December 1999. With Will Dow and Tom Philipson.
Jaume Ventura
Jaume Ventura earned his Ph.D. in Economics at Harvard University in 1995. Currently he is the Pentti Kouri Career Development Associate Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is also a Faculty Research Fellow at the NBER, a Research Affiliate at the CEPR, and associate editor of the Review of Economics and Statistics, the Bepress Journals in Macroeconomics and Moneda y Crédito. He has also taught at the University of Chicago and INSEAD, and served as a consultant for The World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank. His research interests include international economics and macroeconomics.
Selected publications:
- “A Representative Consumer Theory of Distribution” (with F. Caselli), American Economic Review, September 2000.
- “Current Accounts in Debtor and Creditor Countries” (with A. Kraay), Quarterly Journal of Economics, November 2000.
- “The World Income Distribution” (with D. Acemoglu), Quarterly Journal of Economics, May 2002.
Download file
Barcelona receives thousands of visitors, especially in summer.
Please, make your reservations directly as soon as possible.
Residence Halls
Residence Hall for Researchers (comfort)
C/Hospital, 64
08001-Barcelona
Tel. (+34) 93 443 8610
Fax. (+34) 93 442 8202
resa.inv@mx4.redestb.es
http://www.resa.es/csic/home.htm
Residencias Juevenes-El Campus
C/Mallorca, 191, Pral.
jmpresi@arrakis.es
http://www.arrakis.es/~jmpresi/index.htm
APIMEC Residencia Universitaria
C/Bruc, 136
residencia.apimec@caixaterrasa.com
http://www.habitatgejove.com/residen/apimec/default.htm
BARCELONAUTA
C/Sardenya, 326-328 entol. 2
bcnauta@comb.es
Useful Links
How to get to the city from the airport?
There are several ways:
- 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.
- by train. RENFE, every 30 minutes with stops at Barcelona Sants, Plaça Catalunya, Arc de Triomf i Clot.
Information about public transportation from the Airport to Barcelona
- by taxi. It can cost from Euros 18 to 24 depending on the day, time, etc.
How to get to the UPF?
See the Barcelona Subway Map or Information on Barcelona Subway
How to get to CREI (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) from the nearest metro station?
The nearest metro station is “Ciutadella-Vila Olímpica” and belongs to L4 line (yellow one). When you get the street (Ramon Trias Fargas) you just have to walk up and you will find the university on your left.
For further information you can visit:
Nagy, D., C. Ducruet, R. Juhász and C. Steinwender,
"All Aboard: The Effects of Port Development"
Forthcoming in Journal of International Economics, 2024
Monetary Policy Design in the Presence of Nominal Rigidities
|
| Instructor: |
Jordi Galí |
| Selected Topics: |
– A simple framework for monetary policy analysis
– Sticky prices and monetary policy
– Sticky wages and monetary policy
– Monetary policy design for open economies |
| Dates: |
June 17-21 |
| Time: |
9:00-11:00 (10 hours) |
| Maximum Capacity: |
35 |
| Price: |
350 euros |
| |
|
Advanced Methods for Applied Macroeconomics
|
| Instructor: |
Fabio Canova |
| Selected Topics: |
– Topics in structural VAR’s (calculation of error bands for impulse responses/variance decompositon, generalized impulse responses, problems in implementing SVAR).
– Structural estimation methods (GMM and simulation estimators)
– Maximum likelihood estimators of DSGE models calibration, simulation, and model evaluation techniques
– Bayesian methods with applications to VAR, Panel VAR, DSGE models |
| Dates: |
June 17-21 |
| Time: |
Lectures 11:00-13:00 / Lab. 14:00-15:00 (15 hours) |
| Maximum Capacity: |
100 |
| Price: |
500 euros |
| |
|
Asset Pricing under Incomplete Market
|
| Instructor: |
Albert Marcet |
| Selected Topics: |
– Formulation of asset prices in dynamic stochastic equilibrium models with heterogeneous agents under Complete, versus Incomplete Markets
– Exogenously incomplete markets (small number of assets and debt limits)
– Behavior of asset prices under incomplete markets
– Endogenously incomplete markets (non-default constraints)
– Recursive contracts |
| Dates: |
June 17-21 |
| Time: |
15:00-17:00 (10 hours) |
| Maximum Capacity: |
35 |
| Price: |
350 euros |
| |
|
International Capital Flows
|
| Instructor: |
Jaume Ventura |
| Selected Topics: |
– Portfolio models of capital flows
– Sovereign risk and default
– Asset price bubles and the world allocation of investment
– Speculative attacks on currencies |
| Dates: |
June 17-21 |
| Time: |
17:00-19:00 (10 hours) |
| Maximum Capacity: |
35 |
| Price: |
350 euros |
| |
|
Economic Growth
|
| Instructors: |
Antonio Ciccone and Xavier Sala-i-Martin |
| Selected Topics: |
– Neoclassical growth theory: background theory and the convergence debate
– Models of endogenous growth and technological change: theory and evidence
– The tragedy of Africa: the role of AIDS/Malaria, European trade restrictions, and primary goods prices
– AIDS, R&D, patents, generics and South Africa
– The recent growth accounting controversy and economic growth in East Asia
– Empirical determinants of economic growth, robustness and millions of regressions
– The world income distribution and globalization: are inequality and poverty increasing over time?
– Miracles, disasters and new theories of development
– The growth of cities and regions
– New evidence on the relationship between growth and the personal income distribution
– Foreign aid, economic policies, and growth
– Institutions and per capita income around the world
– The role of trade and scale of growth |
| Dates: |
June 25-28 |
| Time: |
10:30-13:00 and 14:00-16:30 (20 hours) |
| Maximum Capacity: |
40 |
| Price: |
550 euros |
| |
|
Political Economy
|
| Instructor: |
Gilles Saint-Paul |
| Selected Topics: |
– Redistributive conflicts among income groups and consequences for growth
– The political economy of social security systems
– The impact of political constitutions on fiscal performance
– Models of representative democracy and lobbying |
| Dates: |
June 25-28 |
| Time: |
17:00-19:30 (10 hours) |
| Maximum Capacity: |
35 |
| Price: |
350 euros |
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 and London Business School.
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, Central European University, Di Tella University 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 the European Central Bank and the Bank of England.
Selected publications:
- “Monetary Disturbances Matter for Business Fluctuations in the G-7” (with G. De Nicolo),Journal of Monetary Economics, 2002.
- “Forecasting and Turning Point Predictions in a Bayesian Panel VAR model” (with M. Ciccarelli), forthcoming Journal of Econometrics.
- “Did Colonization Matter for Growth? An Empirical Exploration into the Historical Causes of Africa’s Underdevelopment”, forthcoming European Economic Review.
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 1994-1999 and a Visiting Professor at UPF for 1994-1996 and 1998-1999.
He is a fellow of the CEPR, associate editor of the European Economic Review, and member of the editorial board of The Review of Economic Studies. His teaching focuses on advanced macroeconomics, which he taught at Berkeley, Stanford, UPF as well as the European Commission 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).
- “Efficiency and Equilibrium with Locally Increasing Aggregate Returns Due to Demand Complementarities,” Econometrica, May 1999 (with Kiminori Matsuyama).
- “Input Chains and Industrialization,” forthcoming The Review of Economics Studies.
Jordi Galí
Jordi Galí earned his Ph.D. in Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1989. He has held academic positions at New York University and Columbia University. Currently he is the director of the Center for Research on International Economics (CREI) and a Professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra. He is a co-editor of the European Economic Review and co-director of the International Macroeconomics Programme of the CEPR. He is also a Research Associate at the NBER, and a Visiting Scholar at the Bank of Spain. His research interests include macroeconomics, monetary theory, and macroeconometrics.
Selected publications:
- “Technology, Employment, and the Business Cycle: Do Technology Shocks Explain Aggregate Fluctuations?” American Economic Review, March 1999.
- “Monetary Policy Rules and Macroeconomic Stability: Evidence and Some Theory”, (with R. Clarida and M. Gertler), Quarterly Journal of Economics, January 2000.
- “The Science of Monetary Policy: A New Keynesian Perspective,” Journal of Economic Literature, December 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 has been a visitor at the ECB, 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 economics and learning models.
Selected publications:
- “Equilibrium Asset Prices and Savings in a Model with Heterogeneous Agents, Incomplete Markets and Liquidity Constraints”, (joint with K. Singleton), June 1999, Macroeconomic Dynamics.
- “Recurrent Hyperinflations and Learning” (joint with J. P. Nicolini), forthcoming inAmerican Economic Review.
- “Optimal Taxation without State-Contingent Debt” (joint with T. J. Sargent and J. Seppala) forthcoming in Journal of Political Economy.
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, of which he is programme director since 2001. He has been professor at UPF from 1997 to 2000. 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 Université des Sciences Sociales, Toulouse.
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 European Economic Review, Labour Economics, and Macroeconomic Dynamics.
Selected publications:
- “The Political Economy of Employment Protection”, Journal of Political Economy, forthcoming 2002.
- “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.
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.
- “Health Investment Complementarities under Competing Risks” American Economic Review¸ December 1999. With Will Dow and Tom Philipson.
Jaume Ventura
Jaume Ventura earned his Ph.D. in Economics at Harvard University in 1995. Currently he is the Pentti Kouri Career Development Associate Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is also a Faculty Research Fellow at the NBER, a Research Affiliate at the CEPR, and associate editor of the Review of Economics and Statistics, the Bepress Journals in Macroeconomics and Moneda y Crédito. He has also taught at the University of Chicago and INSEAD, and served as a consultant for The World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank. His research interests include international economics and macroeconomics.
Selected publications:
- “A Representative Consumer Theory of Distribution” (with F. Caselli), American Economic Review, September 2000.
- “Current Accounts in Debtor and Creditor Countries” (with A. Kraay), Quarterly Journal of Economics, November 2000.
- “The World Income Distribution” (with D. Acemoglu), Quarterly Journal of Economics, May 2002.
Download file
Barcelona receives thousands of visitors, especially in summer.
Please, make your reservations directly as soon as possible.
Residence Halls
Residence Hall for Researchers (comfort)
C/Hospital, 64
08001-Barcelona
Tel. (+34) 93 443 8610
Fax. (+34) 93 442 8202
resa.inv@mx4.redestb.es
http://www.resa.es/csic/home.htm
Residencias Juevenes-El Campus
C/Mallorca, 191, Pral.
jmpresi@arrakis.es
http://www.arrakis.es/~jmpresi/index.htm
APIMEC Residencia Universitaria
C/Bruc, 136
residencia.apimec@caixaterrasa.com
http://www.habitatgejove.com/residen/apimec/default.htm
BARCELONAUTA
C/Sardenya, 326-328 entol. 2
bcnauta@comb.es
Useful Links
How to get to the city from the airport?
There are several ways:
- 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.
- by train. RENFE, every 30 minutes with stops at Barcelona Sants, Plaça Catalunya, Arc de Triomf i Clot.
Information about public transportation from the Airport to Barcelona
- by taxi. It can cost from Euros 18 to 24 depending on the day, time, etc.
How to get to the UPF?
See the Barcelona Subway Map or Information on Barcelona Subway
How to get to CREI (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) from the nearest metro station?
The nearest metro station is “Ciutadella-Vila Olímpica” and belongs to L4 line (yellow one). When you get the street (Ramon Trias Fargas) you just have to walk up and you will find the university on your left.
For further information you can visit:
Galí, J., R. Billi and A. Nakov,
"Optimal Monetary Policy with r*< 0"
Journal of Monetary Economics, 2024, 142, article 103518
Monetary Policy Design in the Presence of Nominal Rigidities
|
| Instructor: |
Jordi Galí |
| Selected Topics: |
– A simple framework for monetary policy analysis
– Sticky prices and monetary policy
– Sticky wages and monetary policy
– Monetary policy design for open economies |
| Dates: |
June 17-21 |
| Time: |
9:00-11:00 (10 hours) |
| Maximum Capacity: |
35 |
| Price: |
350 euros |
| |
|
Advanced Methods for Applied Macroeconomics
|
| Instructor: |
Fabio Canova |
| Selected Topics: |
– Topics in structural VAR’s (calculation of error bands for impulse responses/variance decompositon, generalized impulse responses, problems in implementing SVAR).
– Structural estimation methods (GMM and simulation estimators)
– Maximum likelihood estimators of DSGE models calibration, simulation, and model evaluation techniques
– Bayesian methods with applications to VAR, Panel VAR, DSGE models |
| Dates: |
June 17-21 |
| Time: |
Lectures 11:00-13:00 / Lab. 14:00-15:00 (15 hours) |
| Maximum Capacity: |
100 |
| Price: |
500 euros |
| |
|
Asset Pricing under Incomplete Market
|
| Instructor: |
Albert Marcet |
| Selected Topics: |
– Formulation of asset prices in dynamic stochastic equilibrium models with heterogeneous agents under Complete, versus Incomplete Markets
– Exogenously incomplete markets (small number of assets and debt limits)
– Behavior of asset prices under incomplete markets
– Endogenously incomplete markets (non-default constraints)
– Recursive contracts |
| Dates: |
June 17-21 |
| Time: |
15:00-17:00 (10 hours) |
| Maximum Capacity: |
35 |
| Price: |
350 euros |
| |
|
International Capital Flows
|
| Instructor: |
Jaume Ventura |
| Selected Topics: |
– Portfolio models of capital flows
– Sovereign risk and default
– Asset price bubles and the world allocation of investment
– Speculative attacks on currencies |
| Dates: |
June 17-21 |
| Time: |
17:00-19:00 (10 hours) |
| Maximum Capacity: |
35 |
| Price: |
350 euros |
| |
|
Economic Growth
|
| Instructors: |
Antonio Ciccone and Xavier Sala-i-Martin |
| Selected Topics: |
– Neoclassical growth theory: background theory and the convergence debate
– Models of endogenous growth and technological change: theory and evidence
– The tragedy of Africa: the role of AIDS/Malaria, European trade restrictions, and primary goods prices
– AIDS, R&D, patents, generics and South Africa
– The recent growth accounting controversy and economic growth in East Asia
– Empirical determinants of economic growth, robustness and millions of regressions
– The world income distribution and globalization: are inequality and poverty increasing over time?
– Miracles, disasters and new theories of development
– The growth of cities and regions
– New evidence on the relationship between growth and the personal income distribution
– Foreign aid, economic policies, and growth
– Institutions and per capita income around the world
– The role of trade and scale of growth |
| Dates: |
June 25-28 |
| Time: |
10:30-13:00 and 14:00-16:30 (20 hours) |
| Maximum Capacity: |
40 |
| Price: |
550 euros |
| |
|
Political Economy
|
| Instructor: |
Gilles Saint-Paul |
| Selected Topics: |
– Redistributive conflicts among income groups and consequences for growth
– The political economy of social security systems
– The impact of political constitutions on fiscal performance
– Models of representative democracy and lobbying |
| Dates: |
June 25-28 |
| Time: |
17:00-19:30 (10 hours) |
| Maximum Capacity: |
35 |
| Price: |
350 euros |
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 and London Business School.
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, Central European University, Di Tella University 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 the European Central Bank and the Bank of England.
Selected publications:
- “Monetary Disturbances Matter for Business Fluctuations in the G-7” (with G. De Nicolo),Journal of Monetary Economics, 2002.
- “Forecasting and Turning Point Predictions in a Bayesian Panel VAR model” (with M. Ciccarelli), forthcoming Journal of Econometrics.
- “Did Colonization Matter for Growth? An Empirical Exploration into the Historical Causes of Africa’s Underdevelopment”, forthcoming European Economic Review.
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 1994-1999 and a Visiting Professor at UPF for 1994-1996 and 1998-1999.
He is a fellow of the CEPR, associate editor of the European Economic Review, and member of the editorial board of The Review of Economic Studies. His teaching focuses on advanced macroeconomics, which he taught at Berkeley, Stanford, UPF as well as the European Commission 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).
- “Efficiency and Equilibrium with Locally Increasing Aggregate Returns Due to Demand Complementarities,” Econometrica, May 1999 (with Kiminori Matsuyama).
- “Input Chains and Industrialization,” forthcoming The Review of Economics Studies.
Jordi Galí
Jordi Galí earned his Ph.D. in Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1989. He has held academic positions at New York University and Columbia University. Currently he is the director of the Center for Research on International Economics (CREI) and a Professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra. He is a co-editor of the European Economic Review and co-director of the International Macroeconomics Programme of the CEPR. He is also a Research Associate at the NBER, and a Visiting Scholar at the Bank of Spain. His research interests include macroeconomics, monetary theory, and macroeconometrics.
Selected publications:
- “Technology, Employment, and the Business Cycle: Do Technology Shocks Explain Aggregate Fluctuations?” American Economic Review, March 1999.
- “Monetary Policy Rules and Macroeconomic Stability: Evidence and Some Theory”, (with R. Clarida and M. Gertler), Quarterly Journal of Economics, January 2000.
- “The Science of Monetary Policy: A New Keynesian Perspective,” Journal of Economic Literature, December 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 has been a visitor at the ECB, 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 economics and learning models.
Selected publications:
- “Equilibrium Asset Prices and Savings in a Model with Heterogeneous Agents, Incomplete Markets and Liquidity Constraints”, (joint with K. Singleton), June 1999, Macroeconomic Dynamics.
- “Recurrent Hyperinflations and Learning” (joint with J. P. Nicolini), forthcoming inAmerican Economic Review.
- “Optimal Taxation without State-Contingent Debt” (joint with T. J. Sargent and J. Seppala) forthcoming in Journal of Political Economy.
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, of which he is programme director since 2001. He has been professor at UPF from 1997 to 2000. 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 Université des Sciences Sociales, Toulouse.
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 European Economic Review, Labour Economics, and Macroeconomic Dynamics.
Selected publications:
- “The Political Economy of Employment Protection”, Journal of Political Economy, forthcoming 2002.
- “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.
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.
- “Health Investment Complementarities under Competing Risks” American Economic Review¸ December 1999. With Will Dow and Tom Philipson.
Jaume Ventura
Jaume Ventura earned his Ph.D. in Economics at Harvard University in 1995. Currently he is the Pentti Kouri Career Development Associate Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is also a Faculty Research Fellow at the NBER, a Research Affiliate at the CEPR, and associate editor of the Review of Economics and Statistics, the Bepress Journals in Macroeconomics and Moneda y Crédito. He has also taught at the University of Chicago and INSEAD, and served as a consultant for The World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank. His research interests include international economics and macroeconomics.
Selected publications:
- “A Representative Consumer Theory of Distribution” (with F. Caselli), American Economic Review, September 2000.
- “Current Accounts in Debtor and Creditor Countries” (with A. Kraay), Quarterly Journal of Economics, November 2000.
- “The World Income Distribution” (with D. Acemoglu), Quarterly Journal of Economics, May 2002.
Download file
Barcelona receives thousands of visitors, especially in summer.
Please, make your reservations directly as soon as possible.
Residence Halls
Residence Hall for Researchers (comfort)
C/Hospital, 64
08001-Barcelona
Tel. (+34) 93 443 8610
Fax. (+34) 93 442 8202
resa.inv@mx4.redestb.es
http://www.resa.es/csic/home.htm
Residencias Juevenes-El Campus
C/Mallorca, 191, Pral.
jmpresi@arrakis.es
http://www.arrakis.es/~jmpresi/index.htm
APIMEC Residencia Universitaria
C/Bruc, 136
residencia.apimec@caixaterrasa.com
http://www.habitatgejove.com/residen/apimec/default.htm
BARCELONAUTA
C/Sardenya, 326-328 entol. 2
bcnauta@comb.es
Useful Links
How to get to the city from the airport?
There are several ways:
- 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.
- by train. RENFE, every 30 minutes with stops at Barcelona Sants, Plaça Catalunya, Arc de Triomf i Clot.
Information about public transportation from the Airport to Barcelona
- by taxi. It can cost from Euros 18 to 24 depending on the day, time, etc.
How to get to the UPF?
See the Barcelona Subway Map or Information on Barcelona Subway
How to get to CREI (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) from the nearest metro station?
The nearest metro station is “Ciutadella-Vila Olímpica” and belongs to L4 line (yellow one). When you get the street (Ramon Trias Fargas) you just have to walk up and you will find the university on your left.
For further information you can visit:
Jeenas, P. and R. Lagos,
"Q-Monetary Transmission"
Journal of Political Economy, 2024, 132 (3), 971-1012
Monetary Policy Design in the Presence of Nominal Rigidities
|
| Instructor: |
Jordi Galí |
| Selected Topics: |
– A simple framework for monetary policy analysis
– Sticky prices and monetary policy
– Sticky wages and monetary policy
– Monetary policy design for open economies |
| Dates: |
June 17-21 |
| Time: |
9:00-11:00 (10 hours) |
| Maximum Capacity: |
35 |
| Price: |
350 euros |
| |
|
Advanced Methods for Applied Macroeconomics
|
| Instructor: |
Fabio Canova |
| Selected Topics: |
– Topics in structural VAR’s (calculation of error bands for impulse responses/variance decompositon, generalized impulse responses, problems in implementing SVAR).
– Structural estimation methods (GMM and simulation estimators)
– Maximum likelihood estimators of DSGE models calibration, simulation, and model evaluation techniques
– Bayesian methods with applications to VAR, Panel VAR, DSGE models |
| Dates: |
June 17-21 |
| Time: |
Lectures 11:00-13:00 / Lab. 14:00-15:00 (15 hours) |
| Maximum Capacity: |
100 |
| Price: |
500 euros |
| |
|
Asset Pricing under Incomplete Market
|
| Instructor: |
Albert Marcet |
| Selected Topics: |
– Formulation of asset prices in dynamic stochastic equilibrium models with heterogeneous agents under Complete, versus Incomplete Markets
– Exogenously incomplete markets (small number of assets and debt limits)
– Behavior of asset prices under incomplete markets
– Endogenously incomplete markets (non-default constraints)
– Recursive contracts |
| Dates: |
June 17-21 |
| Time: |
15:00-17:00 (10 hours) |
| Maximum Capacity: |
35 |
| Price: |
350 euros |
| |
|
International Capital Flows
|
| Instructor: |
Jaume Ventura |
| Selected Topics: |
– Portfolio models of capital flows
– Sovereign risk and default
– Asset price bubles and the world allocation of investment
– Speculative attacks on currencies |
| Dates: |
June 17-21 |
| Time: |
17:00-19:00 (10 hours) |
| Maximum Capacity: |
35 |
| Price: |
350 euros |
| |
|
Economic Growth
|
| Instructors: |
Antonio Ciccone and Xavier Sala-i-Martin |
| Selected Topics: |
– Neoclassical growth theory: background theory and the convergence debate
– Models of endogenous growth and technological change: theory and evidence
– The tragedy of Africa: the role of AIDS/Malaria, European trade restrictions, and primary goods prices
– AIDS, R&D, patents, generics and South Africa
– The recent growth accounting controversy and economic growth in East Asia
– Empirical determinants of economic growth, robustness and millions of regressions
– The world income distribution and globalization: are inequality and poverty increasing over time?
– Miracles, disasters and new theories of development
– The growth of cities and regions
– New evidence on the relationship between growth and the personal income distribution
– Foreign aid, economic policies, and growth
– Institutions and per capita income around the world
– The role of trade and scale of growth |
| Dates: |
June 25-28 |
| Time: |
10:30-13:00 and 14:00-16:30 (20 hours) |
| Maximum Capacity: |
40 |
| Price: |
550 euros |
| |
|
Political Economy
|
| Instructor: |
Gilles Saint-Paul |
| Selected Topics: |
– Redistributive conflicts among income groups and consequences for growth
– The political economy of social security systems
– The impact of political constitutions on fiscal performance
– Models of representative democracy and lobbying |
| Dates: |
June 25-28 |
| Time: |
17:00-19:30 (10 hours) |
| Maximum Capacity: |
35 |
| Price: |
350 euros |
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 and London Business School.
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, Central European University, Di Tella University 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 the European Central Bank and the Bank of England.
Selected publications:
- “Monetary Disturbances Matter for Business Fluctuations in the G-7” (with G. De Nicolo),Journal of Monetary Economics, 2002.
- “Forecasting and Turning Point Predictions in a Bayesian Panel VAR model” (with M. Ciccarelli), forthcoming Journal of Econometrics.
- “Did Colonization Matter for Growth? An Empirical Exploration into the Historical Causes of Africa’s Underdevelopment”, forthcoming European Economic Review.
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 1994-1999 and a Visiting Professor at UPF for 1994-1996 and 1998-1999.
He is a fellow of the CEPR, associate editor of the European Economic Review, and member of the editorial board of The Review of Economic Studies. His teaching focuses on advanced macroeconomics, which he taught at Berkeley, Stanford, UPF as well as the European Commission 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).
- “Efficiency and Equilibrium with Locally Increasing Aggregate Returns Due to Demand Complementarities,” Econometrica, May 1999 (with Kiminori Matsuyama).
- “Input Chains and Industrialization,” forthcoming The Review of Economics Studies.
Jordi Galí
Jordi Galí earned his Ph.D. in Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1989. He has held academic positions at New York University and Columbia University. Currently he is the director of the Center for Research on International Economics (CREI) and a Professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra. He is a co-editor of the European Economic Review and co-director of the International Macroeconomics Programme of the CEPR. He is also a Research Associate at the NBER, and a Visiting Scholar at the Bank of Spain. His research interests include macroeconomics, monetary theory, and macroeconometrics.
Selected publications:
- “Technology, Employment, and the Business Cycle: Do Technology Shocks Explain Aggregate Fluctuations?” American Economic Review, March 1999.
- “Monetary Policy Rules and Macroeconomic Stability: Evidence and Some Theory”, (with R. Clarida and M. Gertler), Quarterly Journal of Economics, January 2000.
- “The Science of Monetary Policy: A New Keynesian Perspective,” Journal of Economic Literature, December 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 has been a visitor at the ECB, 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 economics and learning models.
Selected publications:
- “Equilibrium Asset Prices and Savings in a Model with Heterogeneous Agents, Incomplete Markets and Liquidity Constraints”, (joint with K. Singleton), June 1999, Macroeconomic Dynamics.
- “Recurrent Hyperinflations and Learning” (joint with J. P. Nicolini), forthcoming inAmerican Economic Review.
- “Optimal Taxation without State-Contingent Debt” (joint with T. J. Sargent and J. Seppala) forthcoming in Journal of Political Economy.
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, of which he is programme director since 2001. He has been professor at UPF from 1997 to 2000. 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 Université des Sciences Sociales, Toulouse.
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 European Economic Review, Labour Economics, and Macroeconomic Dynamics.
Selected publications:
- “The Political Economy of Employment Protection”, Journal of Political Economy, forthcoming 2002.
- “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.
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.
- “Health Investment Complementarities under Competing Risks” American Economic Review¸ December 1999. With Will Dow and Tom Philipson.
Jaume Ventura
Jaume Ventura earned his Ph.D. in Economics at Harvard University in 1995. Currently he is the Pentti Kouri Career Development Associate Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is also a Faculty Research Fellow at the NBER, a Research Affiliate at the CEPR, and associate editor of the Review of Economics and Statistics, the Bepress Journals in Macroeconomics and Moneda y Crédito. He has also taught at the University of Chicago and INSEAD, and served as a consultant for The World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank. His research interests include international economics and macroeconomics.
Selected publications:
- “A Representative Consumer Theory of Distribution” (with F. Caselli), American Economic Review, September 2000.
- “Current Accounts in Debtor and Creditor Countries” (with A. Kraay), Quarterly Journal of Economics, November 2000.
- “The World Income Distribution” (with D. Acemoglu), Quarterly Journal of Economics, May 2002.
Download file
Barcelona receives thousands of visitors, especially in summer.
Please, make your reservations directly as soon as possible.
Residence Halls
Residence Hall for Researchers (comfort)
C/Hospital, 64
08001-Barcelona
Tel. (+34) 93 443 8610
Fax. (+34) 93 442 8202
resa.inv@mx4.redestb.es
http://www.resa.es/csic/home.htm
Residencias Juevenes-El Campus
C/Mallorca, 191, Pral.
jmpresi@arrakis.es
http://www.arrakis.es/~jmpresi/index.htm
APIMEC Residencia Universitaria
C/Bruc, 136
residencia.apimec@caixaterrasa.com
http://www.habitatgejove.com/residen/apimec/default.htm
BARCELONAUTA
C/Sardenya, 326-328 entol. 2
bcnauta@comb.es
Useful Links
How to get to the city from the airport?
There are several ways:
- 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.
- by train. RENFE, every 30 minutes with stops at Barcelona Sants, Plaça Catalunya, Arc de Triomf i Clot.
Information about public transportation from the Airport to Barcelona
- by taxi. It can cost from Euros 18 to 24 depending on the day, time, etc.
How to get to the UPF?
See the Barcelona Subway Map or Information on Barcelona Subway
How to get to CREI (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) from the nearest metro station?
The nearest metro station is “Ciutadella-Vila Olímpica” and belongs to L4 line (yellow one). When you get the street (Ramon Trias Fargas) you just have to walk up and you will find the university on your left.
For further information you can visit:
J. Díaz-Saavedra, R. Marimon and J. Brogueira de Sousa,
"A Worker’s Backpack as Alternative to the Spanish PAYG Pension System"
Journal of the European Economic Association, 2023, 21 (5), 1944-1993
Monetary Policy Design in the Presence of Nominal Rigidities
|
| Instructor: |
Jordi Galí |
| Selected Topics: |
– A simple framework for monetary policy analysis
– Sticky prices and monetary policy
– Sticky wages and monetary policy
– Monetary policy design for open economies |
| Dates: |
June 17-21 |
| Time: |
9:00-11:00 (10 hours) |
| Maximum Capacity: |
35 |
| Price: |
350 euros |
| |
|
Advanced Methods for Applied Macroeconomics
|
| Instructor: |
Fabio Canova |
| Selected Topics: |
– Topics in structural VAR’s (calculation of error bands for impulse responses/variance decompositon, generalized impulse responses, problems in implementing SVAR).
– Structural estimation methods (GMM and simulation estimators)
– Maximum likelihood estimators of DSGE models calibration, simulation, and model evaluation techniques
– Bayesian methods with applications to VAR, Panel VAR, DSGE models |
| Dates: |
June 17-21 |
| Time: |
Lectures 11:00-13:00 / Lab. 14:00-15:00 (15 hours) |
| Maximum Capacity: |
100 |
| Price: |
500 euros |
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Asset Pricing under Incomplete Market
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| Instructor: |
Albert Marcet |
| Selected Topics: |
– Formulation of asset prices in dynamic stochastic equilibrium models with heterogeneous agents under Complete, versus Incomplete Markets
– Exogenously incomplete markets (small number of assets and debt limits)
– Behavior of asset prices under incomplete markets
– Endogenously incomplete markets (non-default constraints)
– Recursive contracts |
| Dates: |
June 17-21 |
| Time: |
15:00-17:00 (10 hours) |
| Maximum Capacity: |
35 |
| Price: |
350 euros |
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International Capital Flows
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| Instructor: |
Jaume Ventura |
| Selected Topics: |
– Portfolio models of capital flows
– Sovereign risk and default
– Asset price bubles and the world allocation of investment
– Speculative attacks on currencies |
| Dates: |
June 17-21 |
| Time: |
17:00-19:00 (10 hours) |
| Maximum Capacity: |
35 |
| Price: |
350 euros |
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Economic Growth
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| Instructors: |
Antonio Ciccone and Xavier Sala-i-Martin |
| Selected Topics: |
– Neoclassical growth theory: background theory and the convergence debate
– Models of endogenous growth and technological change: theory and evidence
– The tragedy of Africa: the role of AIDS/Malaria, European trade restrictions, and primary goods prices
– AIDS, R&D, patents, generics and South Africa
– The recent growth accounting controversy and economic growth in East Asia
– Empirical determinants of economic growth, robustness and millions of regressions
– The world income distribution and globalization: are inequality and poverty increasing over time?
– Miracles, disasters and new theories of development
– The growth of cities and regions
– New evidence on the relationship between growth and the personal income distribution
– Foreign aid, economic policies, and growth
– Institutions and per capita income around the world
– The role of trade and scale of growth |
| Dates: |
June 25-28 |
| Time: |
10:30-13:00 and 14:00-16:30 (20 hours) |
| Maximum Capacity: |
40 |
| Price: |
550 euros |
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Political Economy
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| Instructor: |
Gilles Saint-Paul |
| Selected Topics: |
– Redistributive conflicts among income groups and consequences for growth
– The political economy of social security systems
– The impact of political constitutions on fiscal performance
– Models of representative democracy and lobbying |
| Dates: |
June 25-28 |
| Time: |
17:00-19:30 (10 hours) |
| Maximum Capacity: |
35 |
| Price: |
350 euros |
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 and London Business School.
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, Central European University, Di Tella University 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 the European Central Bank and the Bank of England.
Selected publications:
- “Monetary Disturbances Matter for Business Fluctuations in the G-7” (with G. De Nicolo),Journal of Monetary Economics, 2002.
- “Forecasting and Turning Point Predictions in a Bayesian Panel VAR model” (with M. Ciccarelli), forthcoming Journal of Econometrics.
- “Did Colonization Matter for Growth? An Empirical Exploration into the Historical Causes of Africa’s Underdevelopment”, forthcoming European Economic Review.
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 1994-1999 and a Visiting Professor at UPF for 1994-1996 and 1998-1999.
He is a fellow of the CEPR, associate editor of the European Economic Review, and member of the editorial board of The Review of Economic Studies. His teaching focuses on advanced macroeconomics, which he taught at Berkeley, Stanford, UPF as well as the European Commission 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).
- “Efficiency and Equilibrium with Locally Increasing Aggregate Returns Due to Demand Complementarities,” Econometrica, May 1999 (with Kiminori Matsuyama).
- “Input Chains and Industrialization,” forthcoming The Review of Economics Studies.
Jordi Galí
Jordi Galí earned his Ph.D. in Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1989. He has held academic positions at New York University and Columbia University. Currently he is the director of the Center for Research on International Economics (CREI) and a Professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra. He is a co-editor of the European Economic Review and co-director of the International Macroeconomics Programme of the CEPR. He is also a Research Associate at the NBER, and a Visiting Scholar at the Bank of Spain. His research interests include macroeconomics, monetary theory, and macroeconometrics.
Selected publications:
- “Technology, Employment, and the Business Cycle: Do Technology Shocks Explain Aggregate Fluctuations?” American Economic Review, March 1999.
- “Monetary Policy Rules and Macroeconomic Stability: Evidence and Some Theory”, (with R. Clarida and M. Gertler), Quarterly Journal of Economics, January 2000.
- “The Science of Monetary Policy: A New Keynesian Perspective,” Journal of Economic Literature, December 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 has been a visitor at the ECB, 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 economics and learning models.
Selected publications:
- “Equilibrium Asset Prices and Savings in a Model with Heterogeneous Agents, Incomplete Markets and Liquidity Constraints”, (joint with K. Singleton), June 1999, Macroeconomic Dynamics.
- “Recurrent Hyperinflations and Learning” (joint with J. P. Nicolini), forthcoming inAmerican Economic Review.
- “Optimal Taxation without State-Contingent Debt” (joint with T. J. Sargent and J. Seppala) forthcoming in Journal of Political Economy.
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, of which he is programme director since 2001. He has been professor at UPF from 1997 to 2000. 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 Université des Sciences Sociales, Toulouse.
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 European Economic Review, Labour Economics, and Macroeconomic Dynamics.
Selected publications:
- “The Political Economy of Employment Protection”, Journal of Political Economy, forthcoming 2002.
- “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.
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.
- “Health Investment Complementarities under Competing Risks” American Economic Review¸ December 1999. With Will Dow and Tom Philipson.
Jaume Ventura
Jaume Ventura earned his Ph.D. in Economics at Harvard University in 1995. Currently he is the Pentti Kouri Career Development Associate Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is also a Faculty Research Fellow at the NBER, a Research Affiliate at the CEPR, and associate editor of the Review of Economics and Statistics, the Bepress Journals in Macroeconomics and Moneda y Crédito. He has also taught at the University of Chicago and INSEAD, and served as a consultant for The World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank. His research interests include international economics and macroeconomics.
Selected publications:
- “A Representative Consumer Theory of Distribution” (with F. Caselli), American Economic Review, September 2000.
- “Current Accounts in Debtor and Creditor Countries” (with A. Kraay), Quarterly Journal of Economics, November 2000.
- “The World Income Distribution” (with D. Acemoglu), Quarterly Journal of Economics, May 2002.
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