CREI – Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional

PEOPLE

Researchers

Vladimir Asriyan

(CREI Senior Researcher, UPF Adjunct Professor and Barcelona School of Economics Affiliated Professor)

PhD: University of California, Berkeley

vasriyan@crei.cat

Office: 23.408

Tel.: (+34) 93 542 28 27

Personal website

Research Interests:

Finance, Information Economics and Macroeconomics

Fernando Broner

(CREI Senior Researcher, UPF Adjunct Professor and Barcelona School of Economics Affiliated Professor)

PhD: MIT

fbroner_at_crei_dot_cat

Office: 23.305

Tel.: (+34) 93 542 2601

Research Interests:

Macroeconomics and International Economics

Luca Fornaro

(CREI Senior Researcher, UPF Adjunct Professor and Barcelona School of Economics Affiliated Professor)

PhD: LSE

lfornaro@crei.cat

Office: 23.306

Tel.: (+34) 93 542 2619

Research Interests:

International Economics and Monetary Economics

Jordi Galí

(CREI Senior Researcher, UPF Professor and Barcelona School of Economics Research Professor)

PhD: MIT

jgali@crei.cat

Office: 23.303

Tel.: (+34) 93 542 2754

Research Interests:

Macroeconomic Theory and Monetary Economics

Mishel Ghassibe

(CREI Junior Researcher)

PhD: University of Oxford

mghassibe@crei.cat

Office: 23.412

Tel.: (+34) 93 542 1547

Personal website

Research Interests:

Macroeconomics, Production Networks, Monetary Economics and Fiscal Policy

Elisa Giannone

(CREI Junior Researcher, Barcelona School of Economics Affiliated Professor)

PhD: University of Chicago

egiannone@crei.cat

Office: 23.307

Tel.: (+34) 93 542 2732

Personal website

Research Interests:

Devopment Economics, Economic Growth, International Trade, Macroeconomics, Regional Economics

Albert Marcet

(ICREA Research Professor at CREI, Barcelona School of Economics Research Professor, AXA Chair and UPF Adjunct Professor)

PhD: University of Minnesota

albert.marcet@crei.cat

Office: 23.413

Tel.: (+34) 93 542 15 25

Research Interests:

Financial Economics, Econometrics, Information Economics, Fiscal Policy and Macroeconomics

Alberto Martin

(CREI Senior Researcher, UPF Adjunct Professor and Barcelona School of Economics Research Professor)

PhD: Columbia University

amartin@crei.cat

Office: 23.409

Tel.: (+34) 93 542 2708

Research Interests:

Financial Markets, International Economics and Macroeconomic Theory

Dávid Krisztián Nagy

(CREI Senior Researcher, UPF Adjunct Professor and Barcelona School of Economics Affiliated Professor)

PhD: Princeton

dnagy@crei.cat

Office: 23.309

Tel.: +34 (93) 542 2760

Personal website

Research Interests:

Economic Geography and International Trade,

Giacomo Ponzetto

(CREI Senior Researcher, UPF Adjunct Professor and Barcelona School of Economics Affiliated Professor)

PhD: Harvard

gponzetto@crei.cat

Office: 23.410

Tel.: (+34) 93 542 2829

Research Interests:

Political Economy, Urban Economics, International Trade and Applied Microeconomics.

Hugo Reichardt

(CREI Junior Researcher)

PhD: LSE

hreichardt@crei.cat

Office: 23.304

Tel.: (+34) 93 542 2562

Research Interests:

Macroeconomics, Economic History

Edouard Schaal

(ICREA Research Professor at CREI, UPF Adjunct Professor and Barcelona School of Economics Affiliated Professor)

PhD: Princeton

eschaal@crei.cat

Office: 23.407

Tel.: (+34) 93 542 2765

Personal website

Research Interests:

Business cycle, Information frictions, Labor Markets, Macroeconomics and Search and matching

Victoria Vanasco

(CREI Senior Researcher, UPF Adjunct Professor and Barcelona School of Economics Affiliated Professor)

PhD: University of California Berkeley

vvanasco@crei.cat

Office: 23.308

Tel.: (+34) 93 542 2598

Personal website

Research Interests:

Corporate Finance, Games with Asymmetric Information, Macrofinance, Mechanism Design and Security Design

Jaume Ventura

(CREI Director and Senior Researcher, UPF Professor and Barcelona School of Economics Research Professor)

PhD: Harvard University

jventura@crei.cat

Office: 23.312

Tel.: (+34) 93 542 1765

Research Interests:

International Economics and Macroeconomics

Associate Researchers

Isaac Baley

(CREI Associate Researcher, UPF Assistant Professor and Barcelona School of Economics Affiliated Professor)

PhD: NYU

isaac.baley@upf.edu

Office: 20.161 (Jaume i Building)

Tel.: (+34) 93 542 2506

Personal website

Research Interests:

Information, International, Labor, Macroeconomics

Andrea Caggese

(CREI Associate Researcher, UPF Associate Professor and Barcelona School of Economics Affiliated professor)

PhD: London School of Economics

andrea.caggese@upf.edu

Office: 20.159 (Jaume I Building)

Tel.: (+34) 93 542 2395

Personal website

Research Interests:

Applied and Quantitative Macroeconomics, Business Cycles and Macroeconomics

Davide Debortoli

(CREI Associate Researcher, ICREA Research Professor at UPF and Barcelona School of Economics Research Professor)

PhD: Universitat Pompeu Fabra

davide.debortoli@upf.edu

Office: 20.165 (Jaume I Building)

Tel.: (+34) 93 542 1657

Research Interests:

Fiscal Policy, Macroeconomics and Monetary Policy

Jan Eeckhout

(CREI Associate Researcher, ICREA Research Professor at UPF and Barcelona School of Economics Research Professor)

PhD: London School of Economics

jan.eeckhout@upf.edu

Office: 20.203

Tel.: (+34) 93 542 1748

Personal website

Research Interests:

Labor Markets, Market Power and Urban Economics

Teresa Garcia-Milà

(CREI Associate Researcher, UPF Professor and Barcelona School of Economics Director)

PhD: University of Minnesota

teresa.garcia-mila@upf.edu

Office: 20.211 (Jaume I Building)

Tel.: (+34) 93 542 1749

Research Interests:

Macroeconomics, Applied Microeconomics and, Economic Geography and Urban Economics

Manuel García-Santana

(CREI Associate Researcher, UPF Associate Professor and Barcelona School of Economics Affiliated Professor)

PhD: CEMFI

manuel.santana@upf.edu

Office: 20.167 (Jaume I Building)

Tel.: (+34) 93 542 1697

Personal website

Research Interests:

Macroeconomics and, Trade, Growth and Development

Priit Jeenas

(CREI Associate Researcher, Assistant Professor at UPF and Barcelona School of Economics Affiliated Professor)

PhD: New York University

priit.jeenas@upf.edu

Office: 20.1E58 (Jaume I Building)

Tel.: (+34) 93 542 1112

Personal website

Research Interests:

Macroeconomics, Monetary Economics and Financial Economics

Ramon Marimon

(CREI Associate Researcher, Professor Emeritus of Economics at the European University Institute (EUI), Emeritus Research Professor at the Barcelona School of Economics (BSE))

PhD: Northwestern University

ramon.marimon@bse.eu

Research Interests:

Macroeconomics, Debt & Monetary Theory, Learning Theory, Labour Theory and Contract Theory

Geert Mesters

(CREI Associate Researcher, UPF Associate Professor and Barcelona School of Economics Affiliated Professor)

PhD: Vrije University Amsterdam

geert.mesters@upf.edu

Office: 20.1E80 (Jaume I Building)

Tel.: (+34) 93 542 1181

Personal website

Research Interests:

Applied Macroeconomics, Econometrics and Statistics

Martí Mestieri (on leave)

(CREI Associate Researcher and UPF Professor)

PhD: MIT

marti.mestieri@gmail.com

Office: 20.2E14 (Jaume I Building)

Tel.: (+34) 93 542 1669

Personal website

Research Interests:

Economic Growth, International Trade, and Macroeconomic Aspects of Economic Development

Joan Monràs

(CREI Associate Researcher, Associate Professor at UPF and Barcelona School of Economics Affiliated Professor)

PhD: Columbia University

joan.monras@upf.edu

Office: 20.169 (Jaume I Building)

Tel.: +34 93 542 1681

Personal website

Research Interests:

International Economics, Labor Economics, and Economic Geography and Urban Economics

Barbara Rossi (on leave)

(CREI Associate Researcher, ICREA Professor at UPF and Barcelona School of Economics Research Professor)

PhD: Princeton University

barbara.rossi@upf.edu

Office: 20.207 (Jaume I Building)

Tel.: (+34) 93 542 1655

Personal website

Research Interests:

International Economics, Macroeconomics and Econometrics

Visiting Researchers

Ana Babus

(Washington University in St. Louis)

PhD: Erasmus University Rotterdam

anababus@gmail.com

Office: 23.310

Tel.: 2823

Personal website

March 24 to June 24, 2025

Pau Belda

PhD: UAB

pau.beldaitortosa@gmail.com

Office: 23.302

Tel.: ---

Personal website

February 17-November 30, 2025

Francisco Buera

(Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago)

PhD: University of Chicago

fjbuera@gmail.com

Office: 23.311

Tel.: 2824

Personal website

February 2 to 27, 2015
March 24 to June 24, 2025

Vasco Carvalho

(University of Cambridge)

PhD: University of Chicago

vmpmdc2@cam.ac.uk

Office: 23.414

Tel.: ---

Personal website

July 22 to August 2, 2024
July 21 to 31, 2025

Anca Cristea

(University of Oregon)

PhD: Purdue University

cristea@uoregon.edu

Office: 23.411

Tel.: 2828

Personal website

September 4, 2024 to July 31, 2025

Pablo Fajgelbaum

(UCLA)

PhD: Princeton University

pfajgelbaum@gmail.com

Office: 23.301

Tel.: 2372

Personal website

June 10 to 21, 2019
June 5 to 9, 2023
June 25 to July 25, 2025

Teresa Fort

(Dartmouth University)

PhD: University of Maryland

Teresa.C.Fort@tuck.dartmouth.edu

Office: 23.311

Tel.: 2824

Personal website

June 14 to 25, 2025

David Gomtsyan

(CREI)

PhD: University of Turin

dgomtsyan@gmail.com

Office: 23.302

Tel.: ---

Personal website

November 13 to 19, 2023
December 3, 2024 to TBC

Gene Grossman

(Princeton University)

PhD: MIT

grossman@princeton.edu

Office: 23.301

Tel.: 2372

Personal website

February 15 to June 12, 2016
May 24 to June 22, 2018
May 23 to June 26, 2019
May 16 to 27, 2022
May 19 to June 15, 2023
February 26 to March 23 and April 1 to 18, 2024
May 12 to June 11, 2025

Jean Grossman

(Princeton University)

PhD: MIT

jgrossma@princeton.edu

Office: 23.414

Tel.: ---

Personal website

May 24 to June 22, 2018
May 23 to June 26, 2019
May 16 to 27, 2022
May 19 to June 15, 2023
February 26 to March 23 and April 1 to 18, 2024
May 12 to June 11, 2025

Helios Herrera

(University of Warwick)

PhD: NYU

H.Herrera@warwick.ac.uk

Office: 23.311

Tel.: 2824

Personal website

February 10 to 14, 2025

John McLaren

(University of Virginia)

PhD: Princeton University

jem6x@virginia.edu

Office: 23.311

Tel.: 2824

Personal website

February 17-28, 2025

Niclas Moneke

(University of Oxford)

PhD: LSE

niclas.moneke@economics.ox.ac.uk

Office: 23.310/23.302/23.414

Tel.: 2372/---/---

Personal website

February 12 to June 30, 2025

Guillermo Ordóñez

(University of Pennsylvania)

PhD: University of California, Los Angeles

ordonez@econ.upenn.edu

Office: 23.301

Tel.: 2372

Personal website

May 23 to 27, 2016
June 13 to 24, 2022
February 3 to April 29, 2025

Nicola Pavoni

(Bocconi University)

PhD: Universitat Pompeu Fabra

nicola.pavoni@unibocconi.it

Office: 23.311

Tel.: 2824

Personal website

June 10 to July 31, 2024
June 25 to july 31, 2025

Diego Pérez

(New York University)

PhD: Stanford University

diego.perez@nyu.edu

Office: 23.313

Tel.: ---

Personal website

March 4 to July 1, 2025

Peter Schott

(Yale University)

PhD: The Anderson School at UCLA

peter.schott@yale.edu

Office: 23.310

Tel.: 2823

Personal website

July 14 to 25, 2025

Former Visiting Researchers

Staff

Olga Adame

Administrative Assistant

oadame@crei.cat

Office: 23.402

Tel.: (+34) 93 542 1388

Anna Cano

Administrative Assistant

acano@crei.cat

Office: 23.402

Tel.: (+34) 93 542 2668

Aina de Oleza

Project Manager

aoleza@crei.cat

Office: 23.406

Tel.: (+34) 93 542 2740

Anna Rios

Business Manager

arios@crei.cat

Office: 23.401

Tel.: +(34) 93 542 2721

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