Manuel García-Santana is Associate Professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Research Associate of the Center for Research on International Economics (CREI), and Affiliated Professor of the Barcelona School of Economics. He is currently on leave from these positions at the World Bank Development Research Group, where he is a Senior Economist.
Professor García-Santana is a Research Affiliate of CEPR (Macroeconomics and Growth), Associate Editor of the Journal of International Economics, and Associate Editor of the Journal of the Spanish Economic Association (SERIEs).
Before coming to Barcelona, Professor García-Santana was a post-doc at Universite Libre de Bruxelles, ECARES, in Belgium. He has been visitor at the United States Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and the University of Minnesota on several occasions, and also at the School of Foreign Services in Qatar, Georgetown University.
- ERC Consolidator Grant: "Government Intervention and Macroeconomy: Microevidence on Transmission of Government Procurement" (2023)
- EEA Hicks-Tinbergen Medal (2020)
- BSE Seed Grant, "Public Sector Projects, Finance, and Aggregate Productivity: Evidence from Matched Bank-Firm-Procurement Data" (2016)
Working Papers
Publications
Recognition Program
Manuel García-Santana, Josep Pijoan-Mas and Lucciano VillacortaInvestment Demand and Structural Change
Econometrica, Vol.89, No 6, 2751 - 2785, November 2021, 10.3982/ECTA16295
Laura Alfaro, Manuel García-Santana and Enrique Moral-Benito
On the Direct and Indirect Real Effects of Credit Supply Shocks
Journal of Financial Economics, Vol.139, No 3, 895-921, March 2021, 10.1016/j.jfineco.2020.09.004Recognition Program
Manuel García-Santana, Enrique Moral-Benito, Josep Pijoan-Mas and Roberto Ramos