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Macroeconomic Policy and Financial Markets Program 

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Francesc Obiols
Program Director
Juan Carlos Conesa
Scientific Director

Prof. Francesc Obiols – Program Director

Francesc Obiols earned his PhD in Economics at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (1996). He has an Associate Professor at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona since 2007. Before that he held assistant professorships at the UAB and Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM). He was the recipient of a Ramón y Cajal Fellowship from 2005-2007. His work has been published in journals such as Review of Economic Dynamics, Journal of Monetary Economics, Economic Theory, and Journal of Money Credit and Banking. He has also served as a referee for Applied Economics, International Economic Review, Journal of Macroeconomics, and Scandinavian Journal of Economics, among others. Prof. Obiols' research interesting include macroeconomics, aggregate fluctuations, and computational methods.

 

email: francesc.obiols@uab.cat

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Prof. Juan Carlos Conesa – Scientific Director

Juan Carlos Conesa graduated in Economics from the Universitat de Barcelona (1991) and earned his PhD in Economics at the University of Minnesota (1999). He has been an Associate Professor at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona since 2006 and has served as the director of the GSE's Macroeconomic Policy and Financial Markets program. He has also been Associate Professor (2001-2006) and Assistant Professor (1998-2001) at the Universitat de Barcelona, Visiting Professor at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (2003-2005), and a visitor at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. He currently serves as Associate Editor of Macroeconomic Dynamics. His main areas of research are macroeconomics and public finance.

 

email: JuanCarlos.Conesa@uab.cat

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Selected Research by Francesc Obiols

On borrowing limits and welfare
Review of Economic Dynamics
(forthcoming).
Incomplete markets, labor supply, and capital accumulation (with A. Marcet and P. Weil)
Journal of Monetary Economics 54, 2621-2635, 2007.
Transitional dynamics and the distribution of assets (with C. Urrutia)
Economic Theory, 25, 381-400, 2005.
 

Selected Research by Juan Carlos Conesa

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

 

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

 

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

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