CREI – Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional

PEOPLE

Researchers

Vladimir Asriyan

PhD: University of California, Berkeley

vasriyan@crei.cat

Office: 23.408

Tel.: (+34) 93 542 28 27

Research Interests:

Macroeconomic Theory, Financial Economics, and International Economics

Fernando Broner

PhD: MIT

fbroner_at_crei_dot_cat

Office: 23.304

Tel.: (+34) 93 542 2601

Research Interests:

Macroeconomics and International Economics

Luca Fornaro

PhD: LSE

lfornaro@crei.cat

Office: 23.306

Tel.: (+34) 93 542 2619

Research Interests:

International Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics

Jordi Gali

PhD: MIT

jgali@crei.cat

Office: 23.303

Tel.: (+34) 93 542 2754

Research Interests:

Macroeconomic Theory and Monetary Economics

Gino Gancia (on leave)

PhD: IIES, Stockholm University

ggancia@crei.cat

Office: 23.307

Tel.: (+34) 93 542 2732

Research Interests:

Macroeconomic Theory, International Trade and Economic Growth

Alberto Martin (on leave)

PhD: Columbia University

amartin@crei.cat

Office: 23.409

Tel.: (+34) 93 542 2708

Research Interests:

Macroeconomic Theory, International Economics and Financial Markets

Dávid Krisztián Nagy

PhD: Princeton

dnagy@crei.cat

Office: 23.309

Tel.: +34 (93) 542 2760

Research Interests:

International Trade, Economic Geography

Giacomo Ponzetto

PhD: Harvard

gponzetto@crei.cat

Office: 23.410

Tel.: (+34) 93 542 2829

Research Interests:

Political Economy, International Trade, Urban Economics, and Applied Microeconomics

Edouard Schaal

PhD: Princeton

eschaal@crei.cat

Office: 23.407

Tel.: (+34) 93 542 2765

Research Interests:

Macroeconomics, Labor Markets, Search and matching, Information frictions and business cycle

Victoria Vanasco

PhD: University of California Berkeley

vvanasco@crei.cat

Office: 23.308

Tel.: (+34) 93 542 2598

Research Interests:

Corporate Finance, Macrofinance, Security Design, Games with Asymmetric Information, Mechanism Design

Jaume Ventura

PhD: Harvard University

jventura@crei.cat

Office: 23.312

Tel.: (+34) 93 542 1765

Research Interests:

International Economics and Macroeconomics

Associate Researchers

Isaac Baley

(CREI Associate Researcher, UPF Assistant Professor and Barcelona GSE Affiliated Professor)

PhD: NYU

isaac.baley@upf.edu

Office: 20.161 (Jaume i Building)

Tel.: (+34) 93 542 2506

Research Interests:

Macroeconomics, Information, International, Labor

Andrea Caggese

(CREI Associate Researcher, UPF Associate Professor and Barcelona GSE Affiliated professor)

PhD: London School of Economics

andrea.caggese@upf.edu

Office: 20.159 (Jaume I Building)

Tel.: (+34) 93 542 2395

Research Interests:

Applied and Quantitative Macroeconomics, Business Cycles and Corporate Finance

Davide Debortoli

(CREI Associate Researcher, UPF Associate Professor and Barcelona GSE Affiliated Professor)

PhD: Universitat Pompeu Fabra

davide.debortoli@upf.deu

Office: 20.165 (Jaume I Building)

Tel.: (+34) 93 542 1657

Research Interests:

Macroeconomics, Fiscal Policy, Monetary Policy

Julian di Giovanni

(CREI Associate Researcher, ICREA Research Professor at UPF and Barcelona GSE Research Professor)

PhD: University of California, Berkeley

julian.digiovanni@upf.edu

Office: 20.163 (Jaume I Building)

Tel.: (+34) 93 542 2690

Research Interests:

International Economics and Macroeconomics

Teresa Garcia-Milà

(CREI Associate Researcher, UPF Professor and Barcelona GSE Director)

PhD: University of Minnesota

teresa.garcia-mila@upf.edu

Office: 20.211 (Jaume I Building)

Tel.: (+34) 93 542 1749

Research Interests:

Macroeconomics, Public Economics and Regional Economics

Manuel Garcia-Santana

(CREI Associate Researcher, UPF Assistant Professor and Barcelona GSE Affiliated Professor)

PhD: CEMFI

manuel.santana@upf.edu

Office: 20.167 (Jaume I Building)

Tel.: (+34) 93 542 1697

Research Interests:

Macroeconomics: Trade, Growth and Development

José Luis Peydró

(CREI Associate Researcher, ICREA Research Professor at UPF and Barcelona GSE Research Professor)

PhD: INSEAD

jose.peydro@upf.edu

Office: 20.224 (Jaume I Building)

Tel.: (+34) 93 542 1756

Research Interests:

Banking, Financial Crises, Monetary Policy, International Finance, Macroprudential Policy

Barbara Rossi

(CREI Associate Researcher, ICREA Professor at UPF and Barcelona GSE Research Professor)

PhD: Princeton University

barbara.rossi@upf.edu

Office: 20.207 (Jaume I Building)

Tel.: (+34) 93 542 1655

Research Interests:

Time Series Econometrics, Applied International Finance, Macroeconomics

Visiting Researchers

Nicolas Coeurdacier

(Sciences Po)

PhD: Paris School of Economics

nicolas.coeurdacier@sciencespo.fr

Office: 23.311

Personal website

October 3 to December 3, 2016
January 7 to May 31, 2019

Matthias Doepke

(Northwestern University)

PhD: University of Chicago

doepke@northwestern.edu

Office: 23.412

Personal website

September 1, 2018 - July 15, 2019

Former Visiting Researchers

Mark Aguiar

(Princeton University)

PhD: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

maguiar@princeton.edu

May 2 to 6, 2016

Yann Algan

(Sciences Po)

PhD: Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne

Yann.algan@sciences-po.org

May 3 to 13, 2011

Manuel Amador

(Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis)

PhD: MIT

amador.manuel@gmail.com

June 14 to 21, 2015

Pol Antràs

(Harvard University)

PhD: MIT

pantras@fas.harvard.edu

May 25 to 29, June 15 to 19, 2009

Philippe Bacchetta

(HEC Lausanne)

PhD: Harvard University

philippe.bacchetta@unil.ch

March to June 2016

Gadi Barlevy

(Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago)

PhD: Harvard University

gbarlevy@frbchi.org

October 23 to 27, 2017

Robert Barro

(Harvard University)

PhD: Harvard University

rbarro@harvard.edu

March 30 to April 4, 2008

Susanto Basu

(Boston College)

PhD: Harvard University

susanto.basu@bc.edu

October 22 to November 4, 2009

Julien Bengui

(Université de Montréal)

PhD: University of Maryland

julien.bengui@umontreal.ca

Office: 23.412

March 27 to April 6, 2017

Florin Bilbiie

(Paris School of Economics (PSE))

PhD European University Institute

florin.bilbiie@gmail.com

May 15 to June 2, 2017

Anton Braun

(University of Tokyo)

PhD: Carnegie Mellon University

toni@e.u-tokyo.ac.jp

September 4, 2008 to July 23, 2009

Björn Brügemann

(Yale University)

PhD: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

bjoern.bruegemann@yale.edu

January 8 to February 9, 2008

Francisco Buera

(Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago)

PhD: University of Chicago

fjbuera@gmail.com

February 2 to 27, 2015

Ariel Burstein

(UCLA)

PhD: Northwestern University

arielb@econ.ucla.edu

November 2, 2017 to March 2018

Lorenzo Caliendo

(Yale School of Management)

PhD: University of Chicago

lorenzo.caliendo@yale.edu

February 2 to March 10, 2012

Carlos Carvalho

(Federal Reserve Bank of New York)

PhD: Princeton University

carlos.carvalho@ny.frb.org

October 19 to 31, 2009

Francesco Caselli

(London School of Economics)

PhD: Harvard University

f.caselli@lse.ac.uk

September 2009 to July 2010

Eric Chaney

(Harvard University)

PhD: University of California, Berkeley

echaney@fas.harvard.edu

May 25 to June 19, 2009

Roberto Chang

(Rutgers University)

PhD: University of Pennsylvania

chang@econ.rutgers.edu

October 2015 to June 2016
June 14 to July 2 2017
June 14 to July 4, 2018

Tim Cogley

(New York University)

PhD: University of California, Berkeley

tim.cogley@nyu.edu

May 17 to 21, 2010

Russell Cooper

(European University Institute)

PhD: University of Pennsylvania

russellcoop@gmail.com

September 26 to 30, 2011

Alejandro Cuñat

(University of Vienna)

PhD: Harvard University

alejandro.cunat@univie.ac.at

September 2015 to June 2016

Pablo D'Erasmo

(University of Maryland)

PhD: University of Texas

derasmo@econ.umd.edu

March 18 to 22, 2013

Wouter den Haan

(University of Amsterdam)

PhD: Carnegie Mellon University

wdenhaan@uva.nl

March 8 to 29, 2009

Julian Di Giovanni

(International Monetary Fund)

PhD University of California, Berkeley

jdigiovanni@imf.org

March 1 to April 30, 2010

Alessandro Dovis

(University of Pennsylvania)

PhD: University of Minnesota

aledovis@gmail.com

November 23 to 27, 2015

Charles Engel

(University of Wisconsin)

PhD: University of California, Berkeley

cengel@ssc.wisc.edu

October 25 to 29, 2010

Harald Fadinger

(University of Mannheim)

PhD: UPF

harald.fadinger@uni-mannheim.de

Office: 23.308

January 11 to June 30, 2017

Ana Fernandes

(University of Bern)

PhD: University of Chicago

ana.fernandes@vwi.unibe.ch

September 2008 to December 2009

Jesús Fernández-Villaverde

(University of Pennsylvania)

PhD: University of Minnesota

jesusfv@econ.upenn.edu

From May 15 to June 9, 2009

Doireann Fitzgerald

(Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis)

PhD: Harvard University

doireann.fitzgerald@gmail.com

June 14 to 21, 2015

Ana Fostel

(George Washington University)

PhD: Yale University

afostel@gwu.edu

December 7 to 17, 2011

Shigeru Fujita

(Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia)

PhD: University of California, San Diego

shigeru.fujita@phil.frb.org

October 20 to 24, 2014

Oded Galor

(Brown University)

PhD: Columbia University

oded_galor@brown.edu

April 30 to May 5, 2012

Marc Giannoni

(Columbia University)

PhD: Princeton University

mg2190@columbia.edu

March 25 to April 4, 2008

Paola Giuliano

(UCLA Anderson School of Management)

PhD: University of California, Berkeley

paola.giuliano@anderson.ucla.edu

May 26 to July 2, 2011

Edward Glaeser

(Harvard University)

PhD: University of Chicago

eglaeser@harvard.edu

February 1 to 28, 2015

Martín González-Eiras

(University of Copenhagen)

PhD: MIT

mge@econ.ku.dk

April 16 to 22, 2015

Gene Grossman

(Princeton University)

PhD: MIT

grossman@princeton.edu

February 15 to June 12, 2016
May 24 to June 22, 2018

Jean Grossman

(Princeton University)

PhD: MIT

jgrossma@princeton.edu

May 24 to June 22, 2018

Alain Guay

(Université du Québec)

PhD: Université de Montréal

guay.alain@uqam.ca

September 2010 to July 2011

Veronica Guerrieri

(University of Chicago)

PhD: MIT

vguerrie@chicagobooth.edu

June 3 to 17, 2010

Refet Gurkaynak

(Bilkent University)

PhD: Princeton University

refet@bilkent.edu.tr

May 18 to 29, 2015

Elhanan Helpman

(Harvard University)

PhD: Harvard University

ehelpman@harvard.edu

June 4 to 10, 2015
February 1 to March 1, 2017

Hugo Hopenhayn

(University of California, Los Angeles)

PhD: University of Minnesota

hopen@econ.ucla.edu

October 15 to November 15, 2007

Cosmin Ilut

(Duke University)

PhD: Norhtwestern University

cosmin.ilut@duke.edu

November 9 to December 9, 2012

Ethan Ilzetzki

(London School of Economics)

PhD: University of Maryland

e.ilzetzki@lse.ac.uk

April 27 to 30, 2015

Oleg Itskhoki

(Harvard University)

PhD: Harvard University

itskhoki@fas.harvard.edu

March 30 to April 3, 2009

Òscar Jordà

(UC Davis)

PhD: University of California, Davis

ojorda@ucdavis.edu

September 14 to 26, 2015

Miles Kimball

(University of Michigan)

PhD: Harvard University

mkimball@umich.edu

June 10 to 17, 2012

Narayana Kocherlakota

(Univeristy of Rochester)

PhD: University of Chicago

nkocherl@ur.rochester.edu

September 29 to October 6, 2018

Oleksiy Kryvtsov

(Bank of Canada)

PhD: University of Minnesota

okryvtsov@bankofcanada.ca

October 2 to 21, 2011

Jennifer La'O

(Chicago Booth)

PhD: MIT

jenlao@chicagobooth.edu

June 4 to 16, 2013

Andrei Levchenko

(University of Michigan)

PhD: MIT

alev@umich.edu

February 9 to 20, 2015

Rafael Lopes de Melo

(University of Chicago)

PhD: Yale University

lopesdemelo@uchicago.edu

November 24 to December 7, 2011

Guido Lorenzoni

(MIT)

PhD: MIT

glorenzo@mit.edu

June 3 to 17, 2010

Bartosz Mackowiak

(European Central Bank)

PhD: Yale University

bartosz.mackowiak@ecb.int

March 1 to 31, 2010

Giovanni Maggi

(Yale University)

PhD: Stanford University

giovanni.maggi@yale.edu

September 11 to 19, 2015
November, 20 to 24, 2017

Philippe Martin

(Sciences Po)

PhD: Georgetown University

philippe.martin@sciences-po.fr

April 3 to June 30, 2012

Kiminori Matsuyama

(Northwestern University)

PhD: Harvard University

k-matsuyama@northwestern.edu

February 27 to March 21, 2016
March 5 to 30, 2018

Martí Mestieri

(Northwestern University)

PhD: MIT

marti.mestieri@northwestern.edu

June 13 to December 5, 2018

Pascal Michaillat

(London School of Economics)

PhD: University of California, Berkeley

p.michaillat@lse.ac.uk

April 4 to May 2, 2011

Stelios Michalopoulos

(Brown University)

PhD: Brown University

smichalo@brown.edu

April 25 to June 15, 2013

Virgiliu Midrigan

(New York University)

PhD: The Ohio State University

virgiliu.midrigan@nyu.edu

June 2 to 15, 2009

Kris Mitchener

(Santa Clara University)

PhD: University of California, Berkeley

kmitchener@scu.edu

September 19 to November 10, 2008

Ferdinando Monte

(Georgetown University)

PhD: University of Chicago

ferdinando.monte@georgetown.edu

March 3 to 4, 2016

Dirk Niepelt

(Study Center Gerzensee)

PhD: MIT

dirk.niepelt@szgerzensee.ch

February 7 to 17, 2015

Salvatore Nisticò

(Sapienza University)

PhD Università di Roma

salvatore.nistico@uniroma1.it

May 15 to June 10, 2017

Guillermo Ordóñez

(University of Pennsylvania)

PhD: University of California, Los Angeles

ordonez@econ.upenn.edu

May 23 to 27, 2016

Ronni Pavan

(University of Rochester)

PhD: University of Chicago

rpavan@mail.rochester.edu

January 7 to February 16 2010

Nicolas Petrosky-Nadeau

(Carnegie Mellon University)

PhD: University of Quebec

npn@andrew.cmu.edu

February 20 to March 10, 2012

Louis Phaneuf

(Université du Québec à Montréal)

PhD: Laval University

phaneuf.louis@uqam.ca

March 12 to 26, 2018

Markus Poschke

(McGill University)

PhD: European University Institute

markus.poschke@mcgill.ca

January to June 2015

Bruce Preston

(Columbia University)

PhD: Princeton University

bp2121@columbia.edu

November 1 to 30, 2007

Giorgio Primiceri

(Northwestern University)

PhD: Princeton University

g-primiceri@northwestern.edu

June 1 to 13, 2012

Ricardo Reis

(Columbia University)

PhD: Harvard University

rreis@columbia.edu

January 7 to 13, 2009

Lorenza Rossi

(University of Pavia)

PhD: University of Rome Tor Vergata

lorenza.rossi@eco.unipv.it

March 15 to June 30, 2014
May 7 to 12, 2018

Esteban Rossi-Hansberg

(Princeton University)

PhD: University of Chicago

erossi@princeton.edu

May 23 to June 10, 2011

Juan Rubio-Ramírez

(Duke University)

PhD: University of Minnesota

juan.rubio-ramirez@duke.edu

June 6 to 17, 2011

Sergio Schmukler

(World Bank)

PhD: University of California, Berkeley

sschmukler@worldbank.org

March 23 to 27, 2015

Paolo Surico

(London Business School)

PhD: Bocconi University

psurico@london.edu

September 26 to October 21, 2011

Filippo Taddei

(Collegio Carlo Alberto)

PhD: Columbia University

filippo.taddei@carloalberto.org

November 16 to 29, 2009

Alan M. Taylor

(University of California, Davis)

PhD: Harvard University

amtaylor@ucdavis.edu

March 23 to 28, 2015

Silvana Tenreyro

(London School of Economics)

PhD: Harvard University

s.tenreyro@lse.ac.uk

September 2009 to July 2010

Mathias Thoenig

(HEC Lausanne)

PhD: University of Paris - Sorbonne

mathias.thoenig@unil.ch

January 15 to July 31, 2011

Oreste Tristani

(European Central Bank)

PhD: Warwick University

oreste.tristani@ecb.europa.eu

October 4 to 28, 2011

Victoria M. Vanasco

(Stanford University)

PhD: University of California, Berkeley

vvanasco@stanford.edu

Office: 20.2E18 (Jaume I Building)

September - December 2016

Carolina Villegas Sánchez

(ESADE)

PhD: European University Institute

carolina.villegas@esade.edu

January 15 to April 30 2015

Jonathan Vogel

(Columbia University)

PhD: Princeton University

jvogel@columbia.edu

May 14 to June 1, 2012

Etienne Wasmer

(Sciences Po)

PhD: LSE

etienne.wasmer@sciencespo.fr

Office: 23.411

October 31 to November 25, 2016

Eugene White

(Rutgers University)

PhD: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

white@economics.rutgers.edu

November 18 to December 2, 2009

Mirko Wiederholt

(Northwestern University)

PhD: European University Institute

m-wiederholt@northwestern.edu

March 29 to June 30, 2010

Mark L. J. Wright

(University of California, Los Angeles)

PhD: University of Chicago

mlwright@econ.ucla.edu

May 23 to June 21, 2009

Eran Yashiv

(Tel Aviv University)

PhD: Hebrew University of Jerusalem

yashiv@post.tau.ac.il

November 5 to 14, 2010

Staff

Anna Cano

Administrative Assistant

acano@crei.cat

Office: 23.402

Tel.: (+34) 93 542 2668

Aina de Oleza

Projects Manager

aoleza@crei.cat

Office: 23.406

Tel.: (+34) 93 542 2740

Mariona Novoa

Administrative Assistant

mnovoa@crei.cat

Office: 23.402

Tel.: (+34) 93 542 1398

Anna Rios

Business Manager

arios@crei.cat

Office: 23.401

Tel.: +(34) 93 542 2721

Carolina Rojas

Administrative Assistant

crojas@crei.cat

Office: 23.402

Tel.: (+34) 93 542 1388