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BARCELONA MACROECONOMICS SUMMER SCHOOL 2007 (BMSS'07)Biographical SketchesFabio CanovaFabio Canova earned his PhD in Economics at the University of Minnesota in 1989. He has been an Assistant Professor at Brown University and Rochester, an Associate Professor at Brown University and the European University Institute, a Professor at the University of Catania, University of Modena, and Universitat Pompeu Fabra and a Research Professor with IGIER. He is currently research professor with ICREA. He has also been part-time professor at the University of Southampton and the London Business School. Besides the above places, he has taught courses at various summer schools, at the Bank of Italy, the ECB, the Bank of England, UK Treasury and UK Foreign Office, Riksbank, Swiss National Bank, Banco de Argentina among other places and he has been a consultant with the Bank of England, the IMF, the ECB, Bank of Spain and the Bank of Italy. He is a Research Fellow at the CEPR, a Research Associate at CREI, a Member of the CEPR Dating Committee, a Member of the Advisory Board of Dynare, the Founder of the Applied Macroeconomic Network (AMeN) His research interests include quantitative macroeconomics, monetary theory, international business cycles and macroeconometrics. Selected publications:
Antonio CicconeAntonio Ciccone is an ICREA Research Professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra. He earned a MSc in Econometrics and Mathematical Economics at the London School of Economics in 1990 and a PhD in Economics at Stanford University in 1994. He is a co-editor of The Economic Journal and Regional Science and Urban Economics, and member of the editorial board of the Review of Economic Studies. He has taught macroeconomics at UC Berkeley, Stanford, the London Business School, as well as the European Commission and the European Central Bank. Selected publications:
Jordi GalíJordi Galí earned his PhD in Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1989. Currently he is Director and Senior Researcher of the Center for Research on International Economics (CREI) and a Professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra. He has held academic positions at New York University and Columbia University. He has been a Visiting Professor at MIT. He is a co-editor of the Journal of the European Economic Association. He is a Research Fellow at the CEPR, a Research Associate at the NBER, and a Fellow of the Econometric Society. He has been consultant to the European Central Bank, the Federal Reserve and other central banks. His research interests include macroeconomics, monetary theory, and macroeconometrics. Selected publications:
Albert MarcetAlbert Marcet graduated in Economics at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (1982) and earned his PhD in Economics at the University of Minnesota (1987). He is Research Professor at the Institut d'Anàlisi Econòmica, Barcelona. He has also been Professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (1990-2003) and Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh (1986-1992) and 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. Selected publications:
Diego PugaDiego Puga earned his PhD in Economics at the London School in Economics in 1997. Currently, he is Professor of Economics at Universitat Pompeu Fabra and a Research Associate at CREI. Previously, he was Assistant Professor and tenured Associate Professor at the University of Toronto. In addition to Universitat Pompeu Fabra and the University of Toronto, he has taught courses at the London School of Economics, Northwestern University, and the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration. He is editor of the Journal of Economic Geography, a member of the editorial board of the Journal of the European Economic Association the Journal of Regional Science, and Moneda y Crédito and a Research Fellow of the CEPR and the NBER. His research interests include urban and regional economics, international trade, and the economics of innovation. Selected publications:
Xavier Sala-i-MartinXavier Sala-i-Martin earned his PhD in Economics at Harvard in 1990. Currently he is Professor in the Department of Economics at Columbia University, and a Visiting Professor at UPF. He has been an Associate Professor at the Department of Economics at Yale University and Visiting Professor at Harvard University. He has also taught at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Harvard University, New York University, Yale University and the International Monetary Fund, among other places. He is senior economic adviser to the World Economic Forum (WEF), editor of the Global Competitiveness Report of the WEF, Research Associate at the NBER and has been consultant for the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. In 2006 he was the President of FC Barcelona and he is now the President of its Economic Commission. His research interests include economic growth, macroeconomics, public finance and social security, health and population economics, and monetary economics. Selected publications:
Jaume VenturaJaume Ventura earned his PhD in Economics at Harvard University in 1995. Currently he is a Senior Researcher at CREI. Previously, he has held academic positions at MIT and the University of Chicago. He is co-director of the International Macroeconomics Programme of the CEPR and has served as editor of The Economic Journal. He is also a Faculty Research Fellow at the NBER, and has served as a consultant to the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank. Selected publications:
Hans-Joachim VothHans-Joachim Voth earned his PhD in Economics at Oxford University in 1996. Currently he is ICREA Research Professor of Economics and Economic History at UPF. He is a CEPR fellow, and a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Economic History. He has won the Gino Luzzatto Prize for the best thesis in European economic history, the Alexander Gershenkron Prize for best thesis on non-US topics, and a Leverhulme Prize for outstanding researchers under the age of 35. His work has appeared in the American Economic Review, the European Economic Review, the Journal of Economic History, Explorations in Economic History, and in a book with Oxford University Press. He has held visiting appointments at Stanford, MIT and Stern Business School (NYU). Selected publications:
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