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. 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 Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics. He has also been a Research Professor at the Institut d'Anàlisi Econòmica, a professor at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (1990-2003) and at Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh (1986-1992). He 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: a.marcet@lse.ac.uk
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