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 Germā Bel 

Germā Bel

PhD, Universitat de Barcelona
Professor, Universitat de Barcelona
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 Program(s):

MSc in Competition and Market Regulation

 Biography:

Germā Bel is a professor of economics at the Universitat de Barcelona. He was a visiting professor at Cornell University (CIPA) in 2004-05, and a visiting scholar at Harvard University (KSG) in 2005-06.

He has served as economic advisor for the provincial government of Barcelona, for the Spanish Minister for Territorial Affairs, and for the Spanish Minister of Public Works and Transportation. Between 2000 and 2004 he served as a member of the Spanish Congress (spokesperson for tax and competition issues).

 Research interests:

Political economy, public sector reform, privatization, regulation, transportation, infrastructures

 Selected publications:

- “Privatization, regulation and airport pricing: An empirical analysis for Europe” (with X. Fageda),  Journal of Regulatory Economics, forthcoming.
- “Regulating Concessions of Toll Motorways: An Empirical Study on Fixed vs. Variable Term Contracts” (with D. Albalate), Transportation Research- A, 43(2), 219 -229, 2009.
- "Privatization and Regulatory Reform of Toll Motorways in Europe" (with Albalate, D. & Fageda X.), Governance: An International Journal of Policy, Administration and Institutions, 22(2), 295-318, 2009.
- “Getting there fast: Globalization, Intercontinental Flights and Location of Headquarters” (with Fageda X.), Journal of Economic Geography, 8(4), 471-495, 2008.

gbel@ub.edu