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 Walter García-Fontes 

Walter García-Fontes

PhD, Stanford University
Barcelona GSE Affiliated Professor
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 Program(s):

MSc in the Economics of Science and Innovation, GPEFM

 Biography:

Walter García-Fontes is an associate professor at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra. He has been a visiting professor at Catholic University of Leuven, Universidad de la República Oriental del Uruguay, Universidad Torcuato di Tella (Argentina), Universitat Jaume I, and Stanford University.

 Research interests:

Economics of innovation and technological change, industrial organization

 Selected publications:

- "Migration across Spanish provinces: 1978-1992", Investigaciones Económicas, vol. XXVIII(3), pp. 461–488, 2004. (with Carlo Devillanova)
- "R&D, Innovation and Competitiveness in the European Chemical Industry, Competitiveness and Performance", F. Cesaroni, A. Gambardella and W. Garcia-Fontes, (eds.) , Kluwer Academic Press, 2004.
- "Risk dominance selects the leader: an experimental analysis", International Journal of Industrial Organization, 18, pp. 137–162, 2000 (with Antonio Cabrales and Massimo Motta)

walter.garcia@upf.edu