Senior Researcher
CREI
Mercè Rodoreda building, room 23.409
Ramon Trias Fargas, 25-27
08005 Barcelona
SPAIN

Tel: +34 93 542 2708

Email: amartin@crei.cat

My website at CREI:
http://www.crei.cat/people/martin

 

Other affiliations:

Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Barcelona GSE Research Professor

CEPR Research Affiliate

 

Alberto Martin

Curriculum Vitae  [download pdf]

 

Teaching

Money and Exchange Rates – G (2012-2013)

Topics in International Finance - G(2009-2013)

Graduate International Finance - G(2007, 2008)

Graduate Micro - G(Fall 2005)

Introduction to Macroeconomics - U(2012)

Topics in Macroeconomics - U(2009-2013)

Macroeconomía I - U(2011-2013)

Teoría Económica III - U(2007, 2008)

 

 

Research

Some of my work is under revision so you won’t find a link to a paper. Please feel free to contact me (amartin@crei.cat) if you would like more information on any of these papers.

 

Working papers

 

·         Financial Reform and Capital Flows: Insights from General Equilibrium – [pdf]
September 2012, with Jaume Ventura

 

·         Bubbly Business Cycles [pdf] – presentation slides
in progress, with Vasco Carvalho and Jaume Ventura

 

·         Adverse Selection, Credit, and Efficiency: the Case of the Missing Market [pdf]
December 2010 (previous version September 2009)

 

·         Endogenous Credit Cycles [pdf]
August 2008, revise and resubmit at the Review of Financial Studies
previously circulated as
Endogenous Credit Cycles and Financial Dampening in an Adverse Selection Economy (2005)
Companion results on financial dampening [pdf]

 

Publications

 

·         Sovereign Default, Domestic Banks and Financial Institutions [pdf]
February 2013, with Nicola Gennaioli and Stefano Rossi
Forthcoming, Journal of Finance
Read a non-technical summary on VOXEU
Para una reseña en castellano de esta investigación, ver aquí

 

·           International Capital Flows and Credit Market Imperfections: a Tale of Two Frictions [pdf]
with Filippo Taddei, Journal of International Economics, 89 (2), 2013, 441-452

 

 

 

·           Economic Growth with Bubbles [pdf] – New revision
with Jaume Ventura, American Economic Review, 102 (6), 2012, 3033-3058
Read a non-technical summary of this research on VOXEU
Read some press coverage in the Financial Times and in Bloomberg
Para una reseña en castellano de esta investigación, ver aquí

 

·         Understanding Bubbly Episodes [pdf]
with Vasco Carvalho and Jaume Ventura, American Economic Review P&P, 102 (3), 2012, 95-100

 

·         Theoretical Notes on Bubbles and the Current Crisis [pdf]
Revised: February 2011, with Jaume Ventura
IMF Economic Review, 59(1), 2011, 6-40
Read a non-technical summary of this research on VOXEU
Read some press coverage in the Financial Times and in Bloomberg
Para una reseña en castellano de esta investigación, ver aquí

 

·         Sovereign Risk and Secondary Markets [pdf]
Revised: June 2009, with Fernando Broner and Jaume Ventura
American Economic Review, 100(4), 2010, 1523-1555
Also NBER WORKING PAPER 12783

 

·         A Model of Collateral, Investment, and Adverse Selection [pdf]
Revised: January 2009
Journal of Economic Theory, 144 (4), 2009, 1572-1588

 

·         On the Role of Retaliation in Trade Agreements [pdf]
Revised: April 2008, with Wouter Vergote
Journal of International Economics, 76 (1), 2008, 61-77
Previously circulated as: Antidumping: Welfare Enhancing Retaliation?  (June 2005)

 

·          Enforcement Problems and Secondary Markets [pdf]
November 2007, with Fernando Broner and Jaume Ventura
Journal of the European Economic Association P&P, 6 (2-3), 2008, 683-694

 

·          On Rothschild Stiglitz as Competitive Pooling [pdf]
Economic Theory, 31 (2), 2007, 371-386

 

Book Chapters

·          Institutions, Financial Integration and Complementarity [pdf]
July 2010, with Nicola Gennaioli and Stefano Rossi,
in R. Kolb (ed.), Sovereign Debt: from Safety to Default, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 89-100 (2011)

 

Discussions

·          Optimal Sovereign Default, by Adam and Grill (2013).

·          Productivity Growth and Capital Flows: The Dynamics of Reforms, by Buera and Shin (2013).

·          Domestic Sovereign Default as Optimal Redistributive Policy, by D’Erasmo and Mendoza (2012)

·          Bubbly Liquidity, by Farhi and Tirole (2012)

·          Fiscal Policy and Default, by Aguiar and Amador (2011)

·          Financial Risk Capacity, by Bigio (2011).

·          Managing Credit Booms and Busts: A Pigouvian Taxation Approach, by Jeanne and Korinek (2011).

·          Financial Crises and Macro-Prudential Policies, by Beningno, Chen, Otrok, Rebucci and Young (2011).

·          Recovery Before Redemption: A Theory of Delays in Sovereign Debt Renegotiation by Benjamin and Wright (2010)

·          Global Imbalances by Portes (2010)

·          Growth Volatility and Access to Finance by Imbs and Morellec (2009)

·          Growing Like China by Song, Storesletten and Zilibotti (2008)

·          Trade Credit and Sovereign Debt by Kohlscheen and O´Connell (2008)

·          A Theory of Liquidity and Regulation of Financial Intermediation, by Farhi, Golosov, and Tsyvinski (2008)

·          Crisis Lending, Moral Hazard and IMF Conditionality, by Jeanne, Ostry and Zettelmeyer (2007)

·          Optimal External Debt and Default, by Guimaraes (2007)

·          The Allocation Puzzle by Gourinchas and Jeanne, (2007)

·          The GATT/WTO as an Incomplete Contract by Maggi and Staiger (2006)

·          A Cost-of-Living Dynamic Price Index, with an Application to Indexing Retirement Accounts by Reis (2006)

·          Inefficient Credit Booms by Lorenzoni (2006)

 

Working papers also available at IDEAS/RePEc.

 

 

Alberto Martin  |  CREI  |  Department of Economics and Business  |  Universitat Pompeu Fabra