Barcelona GSE Research Professors

About Barcelona GSE Research Professors

The distinction of Barcelona GSE Research Professor is a joint appointment between the Barcelona GSE and one of the School's academic units. The appointments began in 2009 to increase the critical mass of top scientists at the Barcelona GSE.

The Barcelona GSE Research Endowment is exclusively dedicated to support the Research Professorships. Other funds complement these appointments.

Endowment contributors to date:

List of current Barcelona GSE Research Professors

There are currently 21 Barcelona GSE Research Professors. Read about their research and involvement in the Barcelona GSE community in the profiles below:

Jose Apesteguia Jordi Brandts Fernando Broner Julian di Giovanni Jan Eeckhout Jordi Galí José García-Montalvo Nezih Guner Flip Klijn Gábor Lugosi Inés Macho-Stadler Albert Marcet Alberto Martín Massimo Motta Rosemarie Nagel David Pérez-Castrillo José-Luis Peydró Marta Reynal-Querol Barbara Rossi Albert Satorra Jaume Ventura

There are seven Barcelona GSE Associate Research Professors. Read about their research and involvement in the Barcelona GSE community in the profiles below:

Larbi Alaoui Christian Brownlees Luca Gambetti Joan Llull Hannes Mueller Andrea Polo Edouard Schaal

There are also five Barcelona GSE Emeritus Research Professors: Salvador Barberà, Joan-Maria Esteban, Xavier Freixas, Robin Hogarth, and Andreu Mas-Colell.

Research Professors

Jose Apesteguia

PhD, Universidad Pública de Navarra

ICREA-UPF and Barcelona GSE

Research Interests:
Decision Theory, Game Theory, Behavioral Economics, Experimental Economics

A selection of research by Jose Apesteguia:

Monotone Stochastic Choice Models: The Case of Risk and Time Preferences (with M.A. Ballester). Journal of Political Economy, 126(1), 74-106, 2018
A Measure of Rationality and Welfare (with M.A. Ballester). Journal of Political Economy, 123(6), 1278–1310, 2015 Barcelona GSE Focus
The Impact of Gender Composition on Team Performance and Decision-Making: Evidence from the Field (with G. Azmat and N. Iriberri), Management Science, 58(1):78-9, 2012
Working Papers

Involvement in Barcelona GSE academic community:

Member of the Barcelona GSE Academic Programs Committee
Faculty member, GPEFM PhD Program
Directs the PhD Track Program

Jordi Brandts

PhD, University of Pennsylvania

IAE-CSIC and Barcelona GSE

Research Interests:
Experimental Economics, Organizational Behavior, Industrial Organization, Public Economics, Behavioral Economics

A selection of research by Jordi Brandts:

Let's Talk: How Communication Affects Contract Design, (with G. Charness and M. Ellman), Journal of the European Economic Association, 14(4), 943-974, 2016
Legitimacy, Communication and Leadership in the Turnaround Game, (with D.J. Cooper and R.A. Weber), Management Science, 61(11), 2627-2645, 2015
Pivotal Suppliers and Market Power in Experimental Supply Function Competition (with S. Reynolds and A. Schram), The Economic Journal, 124, 887-916, 2014
Is ranked competition constructive for women in the workplace? (with A. Schram and K. Gërxhani) Barcelona GSE Focus
Working Papers

Involvement in Barcelona GSE academic community:

Member of the Barcelona GSE Research Committee
Faculty member, IDEA PhD Program

Fernando Broner

PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

CREI, UPF and Barcelona GSE

Research Interests:
International Finance

A selection of research by Fernando Broner:

Rethinking the Effects of Financial Liberalization (with J. Ventura), Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 131, No 3, 1497-1542, August 2016
Sovereign Debt Markets in Turbulent Times: Creditor Discrimination and Crowding-Out Effects (with A. Erce, A. Martín, and J. Ventura). Journal of Monetary Economics, Vol.61, 114--142, January 2014 Barcelona GSE Focus
International Capital Flows and Emerging Markets ERC Starting Grant 2010
Globalization and Risk Sharing (with J. Ventura). Review of Economic Studies, Vol.78, No 1, 49--82, January 2011
Working Papers

Involvement in Barcelona GSE academic community:

Member of the Barcelona GSE Academic Programs Committee
Faculty member, GPEFM PhD Program
Steering committee, teaches in the Master's in International Trade, Finance, and Development

Julian di Giovanni

PhD, University of California-Berkeley

ICREA-UPF and Barcelona GSE - on leave

Research Interests:
International Economics, Macroeconomic Fluctuations

A selection of research by Julian di Giovanni:

Income-Induced Expenditure Switching (with R. Bems). American Economic Review, 106(12), 3898-3931, 2016
A Global View of Cross-Border Migration (with A.A. Levchenko and F. Ortega). Journal of the European Economic Association, 13(1), 168-202, 2015
Firms, Destinations, and Aggregate Fluctuations (with A.A. Levchenko and I. Mejean), Econometrica, 82(4), 1303-1340, 2014
Working Papers

Involvement in Barcelona GSE academic community:

Barcelona GSE Deputy Director for Research
Co-organizer of the Barcelona GSE Summer Forum
Teaches in the Master's in Economics

Jan Eeckhout

PhD, London School of Economics

ICREA-UPF and Barcelona GSE

Research Interests:
Macroeconomics, Labor Economics

A selection of research by Jan Eeckhout

The Rise of Market Power and the Macroeconomic Implications (with J. De Loecker and G. Unger). Quarterly Journal of Economics, 135 (2), 561–644, 2020
Market Power and Secular Macroeconomic Trends ERC Advanced Grant 2019
Labor Market Risk and Skill Diversity ERC Advanced Grant 2014
Gibrat's law for (all) cities. American Economic Review 94 (5), 1429-1451, 2004
Working Papers

Involvement in Barcelona GSE academic community:

Co-organizes Summer Forum Workshop on "Market Power and the Labor Market"
Faculty member, GPEFM PhD Program
Served as Chair of the UPF Department of Economics and Business

Jordi Galí

PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

CREI, UPF and Barcelona GSE

Research Interests:
Macroeconomic Theory, Monetary Economics

A selection of research by Jordi Galí:

Heterogeneity, Monetary Policy and Economic Fluctuations ERC Advanced Grant 2019
Understanding the Gains from Wage Flexibility: The Exchange Rate Connection, (with T. Monacelli). American Economic Review, 106 (12), 2016
Monetary Policy, Inflation and the Business Cycle: An Introduction to the New Keynesian Framework, Princeton University Press, 2015 (second edition)
Policy and Rational Asset Price Bubbles, American Economic Review, Vol. 104 No 3, 721-752, 2014
Monetary Policy and Asset Price Bubbles ERC Advanced Grant 2013
Working Papers

Involvement in Barcelona GSE academic community:

Faculty member, GPEFM PhD Program
Teaches in the Master’s in Macroeconomic Policy and Financial Markets

José García-Montalvo

PhD, Harvard University

UPF and Barcelona GSE

Research Interests:
Banking and Housing Finance, Development, Education and youth labor markets

A selection of research by José García-Montalvo:

The microeconomics of corruption (with R. Burguet and J.J. Ganuza), in the Handbook of Game Theory and Industrial Organization, 2017
The real state and credit bubble: evidence from Spain (with O. Akin, J. Garcia, J.L. Peydró and J. Raya). SERIEs: Journal of the Spanish Economic Association, 223-243, 2014. Winner of the 2016 Best Paper published by SERIEs in the years 2014 and 2015
Ethnic Polarization, Potential Conflict, and Civil Wars (with M. Reynal-Querol). American Economic Review, Vol. 95 No 3, 796–816, 2005
Voting after bombings: a natural experiment on the effect of terrorist attacks on democratic elections. Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 93 No 4, 1146-1154, 2011
Working Papers

Involvement in Barcelona GSE academic community:

Member of the Barcelona GSE Research Committee
Faculty member, GPEFM PhD Program

Nezih Guner

PhD, University of Rochester

ICREA-MOVE, UAB and Barcelona GSE - on leave

Research Interests:
Family Economics, Labor Economics

A selection of research by Nezih Guner:

Firm Dynamics, Job Turnover, and Wage Distributions in an Open Economy (with A.K. Coşar and J. Tybout). American Economic Review, Vol.106, No 3, 625-663, March 2016
Are big cities too small? (with J. Eeckhout) Barcelona GSE Focus
From shame to game in 100 years: an economic model of the rise in premarital sex and its destigmatization BGSE Research Video
Changing Families: Causes, Consequences and Challenges for Public Policy ERC Starting Grant 2010
Taxation and Household Labour Supply (with R. Kaygusuz and G. Ventura). Review of Economic Studies, Vol.79, No 3, 1113-1149, January 2011
Working Papers

Involvement in Barcelona GSE academic community:

Barcelona GSE Deputy Director for Research (2013-2016)
First director of the Master’s in Economics of Public Policy

Flip Klijn

PhD, Tilburg University

IAE-CSIC and Barcelona GSE

Research Interests:
Matching Theory, Market Design, Game Theory, Operations Research, Social Choice Theory

A selection of research by Flip Klijn:

Static versus dynamic deferred acceptance in school choice: Theory and experiment (with J. Pais and M. Vorsatz). Games and Economic Behavior, 113, 147-163, 2019
Constrained School Choice: An Experimental Study (with C. Calsamiglia and G. Haeringer). American Economic Review, 100(4), 1860-1874, 2010
Stable Matchings and Preferences of Couples (with B. Klaus). Journal of Economic Theory, 121, 75-106, 2005
An Algorithm for Envy-free Allocations in an Economy with Indivisible Objects and Money. Social Choice and Welfare, 17, 201-216, 2000
Working Papers

Involvement in Barcelona GSE academic community:

Organizes Barcelona JOCS Game Theory Seminar Series
Taught Game Theory in Barcelona GSE Master's Programs

Gábor Lugosi

PhD, Hungarian Academy of Sciences

ICREA-UPF and Barcelona GSE

Research Interests:
Theory of Machine Learning, Combinatorial Statistics, Information Theory

A selection of research by Gábor Lugosi:

Empirical risk minimization for heavy-tailed losses (with C. Brownlees and E. Joly). Annals of Statistics, 43(6), 2507–2536, 2015
Random-Walk Perturbations for Online Combinatorial Optimization (with L. Devroye and G. Neu). IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 61(7), 4099–4106, 2015
Concentration Inequalities: A Nonasymptotic Theory of Independence (with S. Boucheron and P. Massart). Oxford University Press, 2013
Prediction, Learning, and Games (with N. Cesa-Bianchi). Cambridge University Press, 2006

Involvement in Barcelona GSE academic community:

Member of the Barcelona GSE Academic Programs Committee
Faculty member, Master's in Data Science

Inés Macho-Stadler

PhD, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales

UAB and Barcelona GSE

Research Interests:
Economics of Information, Economics of Science and Innovation, Applied Game Theory

A selection of research by Inés Macho-Stadler:

Endogeneous matching in university-industry collaboration: Theory and empirical evidence from the UK (with A. Banal-Estañol and I. Macho-Stadler). Management Science, 64(4), 1591–1608, 2017
A theoretical approach to dual practice regulations in the health sector (with P. Gonzalez), Journal of Health Economics, 32(1), 66-87, 2013
Sharing the surplus: a just and efficient proposal for environments with externalities (with D. Pérez-Castrillo and D. Wettstein), Journal of Economic Theory, 135, 339-356, 2007
Funding the seeds of radical innovation in academia (with A. Banal-Estañol and D. Pérez-Castrillo) Barcelona GSE Focus
Working Papers

Involvement in Barcelona GSE academic community:

Member of the Barcelona GSE Academic Programs Committee
Faculty member, IDEA PhD Program
Co-organizer of the Barcelona GSE Summer Forum
Editor of the Barcelona GSE Focus

Albert Marcet

PhD, University of Minnesota

ICREA-CREI, UPF and Barcelona GSE

Research Interests:
Macroeconomics, Time Series, Financial Economics, Economic Dynamic Theory

A selection of research by Albert Marcet:

Asset Prices and Macro Policy when Agents Learn and are Heterogeneous ERC Advanced Grant 2018
Stock Market Volatility and Learning (with K. Adam and J.P. Nicolini). Journal of Finance, 71(1), 33-82, 2016
Can a Financial Transaction Tax Prevent Stock Price Booms? (wiht K. Adam, S. Merkel and J. Beutel). Journal of Monetary Economics, 76, S1-S110, 2015
The Impact of Government Debt Maturity on Inflation (with E. Faraglia, R. Oikonomou and A. Scott). The Economic Journal, 123, (566), F164-F192, 2013
Asset Prices and Macro Policy when Agents Learn ERC Advanced Grant 2012
Working Papers

Involvement in Barcelona GSE academic community:

Member of the Barcelona GSE Research Committee
Scientific director, teaches in the Master's in Macroeconomic Policy and Financial Markets

Alberto Martín

PhD, Columbia University

CREI, UPF and Barcelona GSE - on leave

Research Interests:
Macroeconomic Theory, International Economics, Financial Markets

A selection of research by Alberto Martín:

Sovereign debt crises and maturity structures (with R. Fernández) Barcelona GSE Focus
The Macroeconomics of Collateral ERC Consolidator Grant 2013
Economic Growth with Bubbles (with J. Ventura). American Economic Review, Vol.102, No 6, 3033--3058, January 2012
Sovereign Risk and Secondary Markets (with F. Broner and J. Ventura). American Economic Review, Vol.100, No 4, 1523--1555, January 2010
Working Papers

Involvement in Barcelona GSE academic community:

Faculty member, GPEFM PhD Program
Directs the Barcelona CREI Macroeconomics Summer School
Teaches in the Master's in Economics
Has served as a member of the Barcelona GSE Research Committee

Massimo Motta

PhD, Université Catholique de Louvain

ICREA-UPF and Barcelona GSE

Research Interests:
Industrial Organization, Competition Policy

A selection of research by Massimo Motta:

The Effect of the EU Antitrust Investigations and Fines on a Firm’s Valuation (with L. Aguzzoni and G. Langus). Journal of Industrial Economics, Vol.61 No 2, 290-338, June 2013
A Simple Model of Predation (with C. Fumagalli). Journal of Law and Economics, Vol.56 No 3, 595-631, August 2013.
Exclusive dealing and entry, when buyers compete (with C. Fumagalli). American Economic Review, Vol. 96 No 3, 785-795, June 2006.
Competition Policy: Theory and Practice, Cambridge University Press, 2004

Involvement in Barcelona GSE academic community:

Dean of the Barcelona GSE (2009-12)
Scientific director, teaches in the Master's in Competition and Market Regulation

Rosemarie Nagel

PhD, University of Bonn

ICREA-UPF and Barcelona GSE

Research Interests:
Experimental and Behavioral Economics, Neuro-economics, Industrial Organization, Game Theory

A selection of research by Rosemarie Nagel:

Search Dynamics in Consumer Choice under Time Pressure: An Eye-Tracking Study (with E. Reutskaja, C.F. Camerer and A. Rangel), American Economic Review, January 2011
Measuring Strategic Uncertainty in Coordination Games (with F. Heinemann and P. Ockenfels), Review of Economic Studies, Vol.76, No 1, 181-221, January 2009
The economic engineer comes to the Keynesian Beauty Contest BGSE Research Video
One, Two, (Three), Infinity, … : Newspaper and Lab Beauty-Contest Experiments (with A. Bosch-Domènech, J.G. Montalvo, and A. Satorra). American Economic Review, 92(5), 1687–1701, 2002
Working Papers

Involvement in Barcelona GSE academic community:

Faculty member, GPEFM PhD Program
Teaches in the Master's in Economics

David Pérez-Castrillo

PhD, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales

UAB and Barcelona GSE

Research Interests:
Economics of Science and Innovation, Economics of Information, Game Theory

A selection of research by David Pérez-Castrillo:

Endogeneous matching in university-industry collaboration: Theory and empirical evidence from the UK (with A. Banal-Estañol and I. Macho-Stadler). Management Science, 64(4), 1591–1608, 2017
Discrimination in a Model of Contests with Incomplete Information about Ability (with D. Wettstein), International Economic Review, 57(3), 881-914, 2016
Choosing Wisely: A Multi-Bidding Approach (with D. Wettstein), American Economic Review, 92, 1577-1587, 2002
Working Papers

Involvement in Barcelona GSE academic community:

Member of the Barcelona GSE Research Committee
Teaches in the Master's in Competition and Market Regulation and the Master's in Economics of Public Policy
Faculty member, IDEA PhD Program
Director of the Master's in the Economics of Science and Innovation (2007-2012)

José-Luis Peydró

PhD, INSEAD

ICREA-UPF and Barcelona GSE

Research Interests:
Banking, Systemic Risk, Financial Crises, Macroeconomics and Credit, Monetary Policy, International Finance, Macroprudential Supervision and Regulation

A selection of research by José-Luis Peydró:

Systemic Risk, Crises and Macroprudential Policy (with X. Freixas and L. Laeven), MIT Press, 2015
Debt and Persistence of Financial Shocks ERC Consolidator Grant 2014
Hazardous Times for Monetary Policy: What do 23 Million Loans Say About the Impact of Monetary Policy on Credit Risk-Taking? (with G. Jiménez, S. Ongena and J. Saurina), Econometrica, 82 (2), 463-505, 2014
Credit Supply and Monetary Policy: Identifying the Bank Balance-Sheet Channel with Loan Applications (with G. Jiménez, S. Ongena, and J. Saurina). American Economic Review, Vol.102, No 5, 2301--2326, January 2012
Working Papers

Involvement in Barcelona GSE academic community:

Directs the Barcelona Banking Summer School
Teaches in the Master's in International Trade, Finance, and Development

Marta Reynal-Querol

PhD, London School of Economics

ICREA-UPF and Barcelona GSE

Research Interests:
Conflict, Political Economy

A selection of research by Marta Reynal-Querol:

Historical Roots of Conflict: From Prehistory to the Colonization Experience ERC Consolidator Grant 2014
The Legacy of Historical Conflict: Evidence From Africa (with T. Besley). American Political Science Review, Vol.108, No 2, 319-336, January 2014
Do Democracies Select More Educated Leaders? (with T. Besley). American Political Science Review, Vol. 105 No 3, 552-566, August 2011
Understanding and Preventing Conflicts ERC Starting Grant 2007
Ethnic Polarization, Potential Conflict, and Civil Wars (with J.G. Montalvo). American Economic Review, 95(3), 796–816, 2005
Working Papers

Involvement in Barcelona GSE academic community:

Directs the Master's in Economics

Barbara Rossi

PhD, Princeton University

ICREA-UPF and Barcelona GSE

Research Interests:
Time Series Econometrics, Applied International Finance, Macroeconomics

A selection of research by Barbara Rossi:

New Methods and Applications for Forecast Evaluation ERC Consolidator Grant 2013
Advances in forecasting under instability. Handbook of Economic Forecasting, 2, 1203–1324, 2015
Exchange Rate Predictability. Journal of Economic Literature, 51(4), 1063–1119, 2013
Can Exchange Rates Forecast Commodity Prices? (with Y.C. Chen and K.S. Rogoff). Quarterly Journal of Economics, 125(3), 1145–1194, 2010
Working Papers

Involvement in Barcelona GSE academic community:

Faculty member, GPEFM PhD Program

Albert Satorra

PhD, Universitat de Barcelona

UPF and Barcelona GSE

Research Interests:
Multivariate Analysis, Structural Equation Models, Small Area Estimation, Applied Statistics

A selection of research by Albert Satorra:

The Infinitesimal Jackknife and Moment Structure Analysis Using Higher Order Moments (with R.I. Jennrich). Psychometrika, 81(1), 90–101, 2016
Ventura, E., & Satorra, A. (2015). A multiple indicator model for panel data: An application to ICT area-level variation (with E. Ventura). Telecommunications Policy, 39(10), 830–847, 2016
One, Two, (Three), Infinity, … : Newspaper and Lab Beauty-Contest Experiments (with A. Bosch-Domènech, J.G. Montalvo, and R. Nagel). American Economic Review, 92(5), 1687–1701, 2002
Working Papers

Involvement in Barcelona GSE academic community:

Faculty member, IDEA PhD Program

Jaume Ventura

PhD, Harvard University

CREI, UPF and Barcelona GSE

Research Interests:
International Economics, Macroeconomics

A selection of research by Jaume Ventura:

Rethinking the Effects of Financial Globalization (with F. Broner), Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 131, No 3, 1497-1542, August 2016
Globalization, Economic Policy and Political Structure ERC Advanced Grant 2015
How Sovereign Debt Accelerated the First Industrial Revolution (with J. Voth) Barcelona GSE Focus
Economic Growth with Bubbles (with A. Martín). American Economic Review, Vol.102, No 6, 3033-3058, January 2012
Asset Bubbles and Economic Policy ERC Advanced Grant 2009
Working Papers

Involvement in Barcelona GSE academic community:

Director of the Center for Research in International Economics (CREI)
Directs and teaches in the Master's in International Trade, Finance, and Development
Teaches in the Master's in Economics
Co-organizer of the Barcelona GSE Summer Forum

Associate Research Professors

Larbi Alaoui

PhD, University of Pennsylvania

UPF and Barcelona GSE

Research Interests:
Microeconomic Theory, Applied Microeconomics, Decision Theory, Behavioral Economics

A selection of research by Larbi Alaoui:

Predestination and the protestant ethic (with Alvaro Sandroni). Journal of the European Economic Association, 16(1): 45-76, 2018.
Endogenous Depth of Reasoning (with Antonio Penta). Review of Economic Studies, 83(4): 1297-1333, 2016.
Working Papers

Involvement in Barcelona GSE academic community:

Member of the Barcelona GSE Research Committee
Faculty member, GPEFM PhD Program
Teaches in the Master's in Economics

Christian Brownlees

PhD, University of Florence

UPF and Barcelona GSE

Research Interests:
Network Analysis, Nonlinear Time Series, Forecasting, Statistical Computing, Empirical Finance, Financial High Frequency Data

A selection of research by Christian Brownlees:

Credit risk interconnectedness: What does the market really know? (with P. Abbassi, C. Hans and N. Podlich). Journal of Financial Stability, Vol.29, 1-12, April 2017
SRISK: A conditional capital shortfall measure of systemic risk (with R.F. Engle). Review of Financial Studies, Vol.30, No 1, 48-79, March 2017
Empirical risk minimization for heavy-tailed losses (with C. Brownlees and E. Joly). Annals of Statistics, 43(6), 2507–2536, 2015
Disentangling Systematic and Idiosyncratic Dynamics in Panels of Volatility Measures (with M. Barigozzi, G.M. Gallo and D. Veredas). Journal of Econometrics, Vol.182, No 2, 364-384, January 2014
Working Papers

Involvement in Barcelona GSE academic community:

Faculty member, GPEFM PhD Program
Teaches in the Master's in Data Science, Finance, and International Trade, Finance and Development

Luca Gambetti

PhD, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

UAB and Barcelona GSE

Research Interests:
Quantitative and Applied Macroeconomics, Monetary Economics, Time Series Analysis

A selection of research by Luca Gambetti:

Business cycle fluctuations and the distribution of consumption (with G. De Giorgi). Review of Economic Dynamics, 23, 19–41, January 2017
Government spending shocks in open economy VARs (with M. Forni). Journal of International Economics, Vol.99, No 1, 68-84, March 2016
The Effects of Monetary Policy on Asset Price Bubbles: Some Evidence (with J. Galí). American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, Vol.7, No 1, 233--257, January 2015 Barcelona GSE Focus
Working Papers

Involvement in Barcelona GSE academic community:

Faculty member, IDEA PhD Program
Teaches in the Master's in Macroeconomic Policy and Financial Markets

Hannes Mueller

PhD, London School of Economics

IAE-CSIC and Barcelona GSE

Research Interests:
Political Economy, Development Economics, Conflict Studies

A selection of research by Hannes Mueller:

Can Power-sharing Foster Peace? Evidence from Northern Ireland (with D. Rohner). Economic Policy, 33(95), 447-484, 2018
Reading Between the Lines: The Prediction of Political Violence Using Newspaper Text (with C. Rauh). American Political Science Review, 112(2), 358-375, 2018 Barcelona GSE Focus
Predation, Protection and Productivity: A Firm-Level Perspective (with T. Besley). American Economic Journal: Macro, 10(2), 184-221, 2018 AEA Video
Institutions, Volatility and Investment (with T. Besley). Journal of the European Economic Association. 16(3), 604-649, 2018
Working Papers

Involvement in Barcelona GSE academic community:

Faculty member, IDEA PhD Program
Directs and teaches in the Master's in Data Science for Decision Making
Teaches in the Master's in Data Science Methodology and the Master's in Economics of Public Policy

Joan Llull

PhD, CEMFI

MOVE, UAB and Barcelona GSE

Research Interests:
Labor Economics, Microeconometrics, Equilibrium Models, Discrete Choice

A selection of research by Joan Llull

Immigration, Wages, and Education: A Labor Market Equilibrium Structural Model. Review of Economic Studies, 85(3), 1852–1896, July 2018
Dynamic Modeling of Labor Market Mobility and Human Capital Accumulation ERC Starting Grant 2018
Working Papers

Involvement in Barcelona GSE academic community:

Serves on the Barcelona GSE Research Committee
Co-organizes Summer Forum Workshop on "Migration"
Teaches is several Master's programs and Summer Schools
Faculty member, IDEA PhD Program

Andrea Polo

PhD, Saïd Business School (Oxford University)

UPF and Barcelona GSE - on leave

Research Interests:
Corporate Finance, Corporate Governance, Banking

A selection of research by Andrea Polo:

Finance and Investment: The European Case, co-edited with C. Mayer, S. Micossi, M. Onado and M. Pagano. Oxford University Press, 2018.
Regulatory Sanctions and Reputational Damage in Financial Markets (with J. Armour and C. Mayer). Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 52(4): 1-20, 2017.
Can Mandatory Shareholder Voting Prevent Bad Acquisitions? (with M. Becht and S. Rossi). Review of Financial Studies, 29 (11): 3035-3067, 2016.
Double Bank Runs and Liquidity Risk Management (with F. Ippolito, J.L. Peydro and E. Sette). Journal of Financial Economics, 122 (1): 135-154, 2016.
Working Papers