Jordi Galí

MSc in Economics, MSc in Macroeconomic Policy and Financial Markets, GPEFM

Prof. Galí earned his PhD in Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1989. Prior to joining the Barcelona economics community, he held academic positions at New York University and Columbia University, and was Visiting Professor at MIT.

His main areas of research are macroeconomics, monetary theory, and macroeconometrics. His influential findings have had a large impact on a variety of topics, particularly business cycles, inflation, exchange rates and the conduct of monetary policy.

Prof. Galí has been cited as the most productive Spanish researcher from 1990-2004 (“Publishing Performance of Spanish Academics: 1970-2004” by D. Rodriguez, Spanish Economic Review, 2006). He has also been ranked as the 8th most cited researcher worldwide in Economics and Business (Thomson Scientific’s Essential Science Indicators SM, data from January 1997-October 2007).

Prof. Galí is Fellow of the Econometric Society and member of the Council of the European Economic Association (EEA). In October of 2009 he was elected Vice President of the EEA, and will officially take on this role in January 2010. He will become President Elect in 2011 and President in 2012.

Prof. Galí holds Research positions at the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) in London, and at the US National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER).

In addition to being a Research Professor at the Barcelona GSE and Professor at the UPF, Prof. Galí is Director of the Centre for Research in International Economics (CREI).

In 2005 Prof. Galí received the Yrjö Jahnsson Award in Economics. He also won the Rey Jaime I Prize for Economics in 2004 and the VII Prize of the Catalan Society of Economics in 2008.

- Monetary Policy, Inflation, and the Business Cycle (Princeton University Press, 2008)
- "New Evidence on Inflation Persistence and Price Stickiness in the Euro Area: Implications for Macro Modelling", Journal of the European Economic Association, vol. 4 (2-3), 562-574, April-May 2006. (with I. Angeloni, L. Aucremanne, M. Ehrmann, A. Levin, F. Smets)
- "Modern Perspectives on Fiscal Stabilization Policies", CESifo Economic Studies, Vol. 51, 4/2005, 587-599
- "Robustness of the Estimates of the Hybrid New Keynesian Phillips Curve", Journal of Monetary Economics 52 (2005) 1107-118. (with Mark Gertler and J. David López-Salido)