new III Workshop on Economics of the Mediterranean, Barcelona June 26 - 27.
Preliminary program!
 

Recent comment from a young Tunisian research economist:
"I am persuaded that the community of researchers interested by the MENA economies need the kind of structure and focal point that is the CREMed."

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Papers from two recently completed CREMed Research Projects: International trade, transport and the environment in the Euro-Med Area  and Moroccans’ Assimilation in Spain: Family-Based versus Labor-Based Migration are now available in the CREMed Working Paper Series.

CREMed Academic Director
Scientific Advisory Council Member

José García-Montalvo

Professor,  Department of Economics, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Vice President Science Policy, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Research Professor, Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas (IVIE)

Areas of Interest:
  • Public policy
  • Labor markets
  • Housing
  • Development economics
  • Econometrics
Education:
  • Ph.D. (Economics) Harvard University, 1993
  • M.A. (Economics) Harvard University, 1991
  • S.I. (Economics) University of Valencia, 1989.
  • B.A. (Economics) University of Valencia, 1987
Experience:  In addition to his responsibilities as Academic Director and Scientific Council Member of the Center for Research on Economies of the Mediterranean, José García-Montalvo is currently Professor,  Department of Economics, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) and Research Professor, Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas (IVIE). In December of 2011 he was named the Vice President of Science Policy of the UPF. Previously he has been Chairman of the Department of Economics and Business at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, a Consultant at the OECD, the World Bank, and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). He has also held faculty positons at Harvard, the Universitat de Valencia, the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics, and the Kennedy School of Government.

Recent and Forthcoming Publications:
  • “Voting after bombings: a natural experiment on the effect of terrorist attacks on democratic elections”, (forthcoming in the Review of Economics and Statistics).
  • “Land use regulation and house prices in Spain,” (forthcoming in Moneda y Credito, 2010).
  • “Ethnic polarization and the duration of civil wars,” (with M. Reynal-Querol, Economics of Governance, 11 (2), 123-143, 2010).


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