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Antoni Calvó-Armengol - Curriculum Vitae

Personal Information

• Born: 1970, Les Escaldes-Engordany, Principality of Andorra
• Citizenship: Andorran

Academic Background

• Ph. D. in Economics (with honours), 2000, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona and CERAS-ENPC, Paris (European Doctoral Program).
• M. Sc. in Economics (with honours), 1997, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona.
• Ingénieur (B.A.), 1994, Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, Paris.
• Ingeniero Superior (B.A.) de Caminos, Canales y Puertos, 1994, Universidad Politécnica, Madrid.
• Ingénieur (B.A.), 1992, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris.

Academic Employment

• ICREA Senior Research Professor at Department of Economics, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2005-onwards.
• Part-time Full Professor, Université de Toulouse Sciences Sociales, 2004-2006.
• Ramón y Cajal Researcher, Department of Economics, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2002-2005.
• Professor Associat, Department of Economics, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, 2002-2004.
• Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, 2000-2002.
• Lecturer, Department of Economics, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, 1999-2000.
• Teaching Assistant, ENSAE, Paris, 1998-1999.
• Teaching Assistant, Department of Economics, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, 1996-1998.

Other Positions

• Research Affiliate, CEPR (Labour Programme and Industrial Organisation Programme) London, 2004-present.
• Research Associate, CERAS-ENPC, Paris, 2000-2004.

Editorial Service

Awards

• 1999 Young Economist Award of the European Economic Association
• 2002 Teaching Award: elected by students among four best professors at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.

Publications

• View a list of publications by Antoni Calvó-Armengol

Teaching

• Summer School in Economic Theory, Institute for Advanced Studies at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem 2007
• Labor Market Networks, San Sebastian, Spain 2003
• Coalition and Networks Formation, Aix-en-Provence, France 2002
• Game Theory, The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Université Nationale du Bénin and UNESCO, Djrègbé, Benin 2000.

Professional Activities

• Organizer: Organization Committee Member, European Summer Symposium in Economic Theory (ESSET) 2006 at Study Center Gerzensee (with CEPR); Program Committee Member, European Meeting of the Econometric Society, Budapest 2007; Program Committee Member, European Economic Association Congress, Vienna 2006; Barcelona-Jocs, Academic Year 2005-2006; Interdisciplinary Workshop on Networks (with Antonio Cabrales and Fernando Vega-Redondo), Universitat Pompeu Fabra, June 2004; Summer School on Social and Network Interactions in Economics (with Matthew O. Jackson and Alfonso Dubois), July 2003, Urrutia Foundation and Universidad del País Vasco; Economic Theory and Industrial Organization Workshop 2000-2002 (with Praveen Kujal), Department of Economics, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.
• Ph.D. Supervisor: for Coralio Ballester (Ph.D. 2005, placed at Universidad de Alicante), Peter Vida (Ph.D. 2006, placed at University of Vienna), Joan de Martí (Ph.D. 2007, placed at Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Rahmi Ilkiliç (Ph.D 2007, placed at Maastricht University).
• Ph.D. committee member: at Humboldt University in Berlin (for Katinka Pantz), Erasmus University of Rotterdam (for Andrea Galeotti), Universidad Carlos III (for Noemí Navarro), Universidad de Alicante (for Dunia López-Pintado), Universitat Pompeu Fabra (for Federico Cingano), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (various students).
• From 1994 to 1996, management consultant for the health and social services department of Bossard Consultants (now merged with Ernst and Young-Gemini Consulting) in Switzerland and in Spain.
• From 2001 to 2007, appointed non-resident ambassador of the Principality of Andorra at the Portugal Republic.
• Since 2006, appointed non-resident ambassador of the Principality of Andorra at Switzerland, and at the international organisations in Geneva.