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. 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 Personal Web Prof. Albert Marcet – Scientific Director Albert Marcet graduated in Economics from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (1982) and earned his PhD in Economics at the University of Minnesota (1987). He is Research Professor at the Institut d'Anàlisi Econòmica, Barcelona. He has also been a professor at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (1990-2003) and at Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh (1986-1992) and has been a visitor at the ECB, London Business School, CEMFI (Madrid), the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and the Universitat Autònoma of Barcelona. His main areas of research are macroeconomics, fiscal policy, solution methods of dynamic models, financial economics and learning models. email: albert.marcet@iae.csic.es Personal Web |
Selected Research by Juan Carlos Conesa "Taxing Capital? Not a Bad Idea After All!" (with Sagiri Kitao and Dirk Krueger). American Economic Review 99, 25-48, 2009. Click here for an Appendix with further discussion of the results in this paper "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. Selected Research by Albert Marcet"Recursive Contracts" entry in New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2d Edition, ed. by Steven N. Durlauf and Lawrence E. Blume, vol. 7, 39-42, Palgrave McMillan, 2008. |