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Economics Program

antoniocicconeAntonio Ciccone
Program Director

 

    Prof. Antonio Ciccone Program Director

Prof. Ciccone is an ICREA Professor at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, which he first joined in 1994, and a Barcelona GSE Affiliated Professor. He earned a PhD in Economics at Stanford University in 1994 and an MSc in Econometrics and Mathematical Economics at the London School of Economics in 1990. He is a research associate of CREI, Research Fellow of the Barcelona GSE, and Fellow of the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and CESifo.
 
Prof. Ciccone specializes in research and teaching in macroeconomics. His research has been published in 4 of the 5 top journals in economics. He has also been the recipient of the University Research Distinction by the Generalitat de Catalunya from 2003-2007. Prof. Ciccone is currently co-editor of The Economic Journal and has been a member of the editorial boards of several other international journals. He also chaired the Scientific Programme Committee of the 24th Congress of the European Economic Association in Barcelona in August 2009. Prof. Ciccone has taught graduate macroeconomics at UC Berkeley, Stanford University, the London Business School, and the London School of Economics.

 

In May of 2009 Caixa Manresa and the Barcelona GSE created the Antonio Ciccone-Caixa Manresa Chair on Applied Economics. The program Chair is intended to promote world-class research and dissemination in Applied Economics and to attract international researchers, under the leadership of Prof. Ciccone.

 

 

antonio.ciccone@upf.edu

Personal web

Selected Research by Antonio Ciccone

The Economic Journal, May 2010.

Review of Economics and Statistics, February 2009, 66-82.

Research Video: Growth, Democracy, and Civil War

video

Research by Prof. Antonio Ciccone reveals a link between downturns of international commodities prices and the outbreak of civil war in Sub-Saharan African countries. Additional analysis suggests that a country's form of government may be a crucial factor in predicting civil war in the case of economic depression.

 

Watch Video (04:25)

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