Ramon Marimon

MSc in the Economics of Science and Innovation, GPEFM

Ramon Marimon is a full professor at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra.

Previously he was professor at the European University Institute and associate professor at the University of Minnesota. He has been a visiting professor at Stanford University, Cambridge University, the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, the International Monetary Fund, the Santa Fe Institute, Ente Einaudi and Luiss University, among others.

Professor Marimon was co-founder of the UPF as dean and chair of Economics and Business, and secretary of state for science and technology in the Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology (2000-2002). He was the first director of the Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREi) and of the Centre de Referència en Economia Analítica (CREA).

Former president of the Spanish Economic Association, Professor Marimon has been a research fellow at the NBER since 1992 and of the CEPR since 1993. He is former co-editor of the Review of Economic Dynamics and former chairman of the European Commission's “High Level Panel for the mid-term evaluation of the effectiveness of the New Instruments of the Framework Programme Six”.

Macroeconomics, monetary theory, labor theory, political economy, contract theory, learning theory, the economics of science and innovation

- "Aggregate Consequences of Limited Contract Enforceability" (with Thomas Cooley and Vincenzo Quadrini), Journal of Political Economy, v. 112(4), 817—847, 2004.
- "Inside-Outside Money Competition" (with J.P.Nicolini y P.Teles), Journal of Monetary Economics, 50, 1701-1718, 2003.
- "Employment and Distributional Effects of Restricting Working Time" (with F. Zilibotti), European Economic Review, 44, 1291-1326, 2000.