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 Jaume Ventura 

Jaume Ventura

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

Steering Committee member, MSc in International Trade, Finance, and Development; Faculty member, MSc in Economics; Director, GPEFM

 Biography:

Jaume Ventura is a senior researcher at CREI and a professor of economics at Universitat Pompeu Fabra. He received his PhD from Harvard in 1995. Prior to joining CREI and UPF, he was a tenured associate professor at MIT. He has also taught at the University of Chicago and INSEAD. Ventura has worked full-time for the World Bank, and acted as a consultant for the Inter-American Development Bank. His research specializes in macroeconomics and international economics.

 Selected publications:

"Sovereign Risk and Secondary Markets" (with F. Broner and A. Martin)
Forthcoming in American Economic Review

"Enforcement Problems and Secondary Markets" (with F. Broner and A. Martin)
Journal of the European Economic Association Papers and Proceedings, 6 (2-3), 683-694, 2008

"Comparative Advantage and the Cross-section of Business Cycles" (with A. Kraay)
Journal of the European Economic Association, December 2007

jventura@crei.cat