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BARCELONA MACROECONOMICS SUMMER SCHOOL 2009 (BMSS'09)Biographical SketchesFabio CanovaFabio Canova earned his PhD in Economics at the University of Minnesota in 1988. He held academic positions at Brown University, Rochester University, the European University Institute, the University of Catania, the University of Modena, Universitat Pompeu Fabra and University of Bern. He has been a Research Professor at IGIER-Bocconi and Part-Time Professor at the University of Southampton and the London Business School. Currently he is ICREA Research Professor of Economics at UPF. 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, Bundesbank, Swiss National Bank, Banco de Argentina, Banco do Brazil, Bank of Spain, Banco do Portugal, Reserve Bank of South Africa, Banco de Peru among other places and he has been a consultant to the Bank of England, the IMF, the ECB, the 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 Scientific Committee of the Euro Area Business Cycle Network (EABCN), a Member of the Advisory Board of Dynare, Program Director of the Budapest School for Central Banking Studies, Founder of the Applied Macroeconomic Network (AMeN) and Co-editor of the Journal of the European Economic Association. His research interests include quantitative macroeconomics, monetary theory, fiscal policy, international business cycles and macroeconometrics. 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 in 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 has served as a co-editor of the Journal of the European Economic Association, and is currently an associate editor of the American Economic Journal-Macroeconomics and the International Journal of Central Banking. 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, the Bank of Spain and other central banks. He was co-recipient of the 2005 Yrjo Jansson Award in Economics. His research interests include macroeconomics and monetary theory. 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:
Ramon MarimonRamon Marimon earned his PhD in Economics at Northwestern University 1984. Full Professor at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (since 1990) and at the European University Institute (since 2007), where he is Director of the Max Weber Postdoctoral Programme, was previously Professor at the University of Minnesota and has been Visiting Professor at Stanford University and the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, among other places. Research Fellow at the NBER and at the CEPR, he has been co-editor of the Review of Economic Dynamics. He is also Fellow of the European Economic Association and of the Spanish Economic Association. His research interests include macroeconomics, monetary theory, labor theory, political economy, dynamic contract theory, learning theory, and science and innovation policy. Selected publications:
Xavier Sala-i-MartinXavier Sala-i-Martin earned his PhD in Economics at Harvard University in 1990. Currently he is Professor in the Department of Economics at Columbia University, and a Visiting Professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (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 UPF, 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), author of the Global Competitiveness Report of the WEF, Research Associate at the NBER and has been consultant to 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 Center for Research in International Economics (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 Research Associate at the NBER, and has served as a consultant to the IMF, the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank. His research interests include international economics and macroeconomics. 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 Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF). He is a CEPR Research 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 Quarterly Journal of Economics, 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, Princeton and Stern Business School (NYU). He has acted as an advisor to the German Finance Ministry's Working Group on Financial Market Reform; to the CEO of the German Stock Exhange; and to the German Trade Unions Movement (DGB). His research interests are in financial and economic history and macroeconomics. Selected publications:
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