Antonio Ciccone

Director, MSc in Economics; Steering Committee member, MSc in International Trade, Finance, and Development; Faculty member, GPEFM

Prof. Ciccone is an ICREA Professor at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, which he first joined in 1994, and a Barcelona GSE Affiliated Professor. He earned a PhD in Economics at Stanford University in 1994 and an MSc in Econometrics and Mathematical Economics at the London School of Economics in 1990. He is a research associate of CREI, Research Fellow of the Barcelona GSE, and Fellow of the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and CESifo.

Prof. Ciccone specializes in research and teaching in macroeconomics. His research has been published in 4 of the 5 top journals in economics. He has also been the recipient of the University Research Distinction by the Generalitat de Catalunya from 2003-2007. Prof. Ciccone is currently co-editor of The Economic Journal and has been a member of the editorial boards of several other international journals. He also chaired the Scientific Programme Committee of the 24th Congress of the European Economic Association in Barcelona in August 2009. Prof. Ciccone has taught graduate macroeconomics at UC Berkeley, Stanford University, the London Business School, and the London School of Economics.

In May of 2009 Caixa Manresa and the Barcelona GSE created the Antonio Ciccone-Caixa Manresa Chair on Applied Economics. The program Chair is intended to promote world-class research and dissemination in Applied Economics and to attract international researchers, under the leadership of Prof. Ciccone.

In addition to his appointment as a Barcelona GSE Research Professor, Prof. Ciccone is the director of the GSE's MSc in Economics and a steering committee member of the MSc in International Trade, Finance and Development, and he teaches courses in both programs.

- "Human Capital, the Structure of Production, and Growth" (with Elias Papaioannou), Review of Economics and Statistics, February 2009.
- "Red Tape and Delayed Entry" (with Elias Papaioannou), Journal of European Economic Association, Paper and Proceedings, April-May 2007.
- "Identifying Human Capital Externalities: Theory with Applications" (with Giovanni Peri), Review of Economic Studies, April 2006.
- "Trade and Productivity" (with Francisco Alcala), Quarterly Journal of Economics, May 2004.