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 Francesc Obiols 

Francesc Obiols

PhD, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Associate Professor, UAB
Barcelona GSE Affiliated Professor
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 Program(s):

Director, MSc in Macroeconomic Policy and Financial Markets, IDEA

 Biography:

Francesc Obiols earned his PhD in Economics at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (1996). He has an Associate Professor at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona since 2007. Before that he held assistant professorships at the UAB and Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM). He was the recipient of a Ramón y Cajal Fellowship from 2005-2007. His work has been published in journals such as Review of Economic Dynamics, Journal of Monetary Economics, Economic Theory, and Journal of Money Credit and Banking. He has also served as a referee for Applied Economics, International Economic Review, Journal of Macroeconomics, and Scandinavian Journal of Economics, among others.

 Research interests:

macroeconomics, aggregate fluctuations, computational methods

 Selected publications:

- "On borrowing limits and welfare" Review of Economic Dynamics (forthcoming).

- "Incomplete markets, labor supply, and capital accumulation" (with A. Marcet and P. Weil)
Journal of Monetary Economics 54, 2621-2635, 2007.

- "Transitional dynamics and the distribution of assets" (with C. Urrutia) Economic Theory, 25, 381-400, 2005.

francesc.obiols@uab.es