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 Juan-Carlos Conesa 

Juan-Carlos Conesa

PhD, University of Minnesota
Head of the Unit, UAB
Barcelona GSE Affiliated Professor
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 Program(s):

Scientific Director, MSc in Macroeconomic Policy and Financial Markets; Faculty member, IDEA

 Biography:

Juan Carlos Conesa is tenured associate professor at the Universitat Autňnoma de Barcelona.

 Professional affiliations:

Professor Conesa is Associate Editor of Macroeconomic Dynamics.

 Awards:

Professor Conesa has been awarded research grants in competitive open calls from the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science, from the Generalitat de Catalunya, and the Fundación Ramón Areces.

 Research interests:

Macroeconomics, public finance

 Selected publications:

- "Taxing Capital? Not a Bad Idea After All!" (with Sagiri Kitao and Dirk Krueger). American Economic Review 99, 25-48, 2009.

-"Optimal Fiscal Policy in the Design of Social Security Reforms" (with Carlos Garriga). International Economic Review 49, 291-318, 2008.

-"On the Optimal Progressivity of the Income Tax Code" (with Dirk Krueger). Journal of Monetary Economics 53, 1425-1450, 2006.

JuanCarlos.Conesa@uab.cat