Albert Marcet

Albert Marcet Torrens (born 11 April 1960) is a Spanish economist, specialized in Macroeconomics, time series, Financial Economics and Economic Dynamic Theory. He is an ICREA Research Professor and Director of the Institute for Economic Analysis (IAE) a research centre of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and AXA Research Chair on Macroeconomic Risk at the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics. He is also a Fellow of the Econometric Society and he has been a Research Fellow of Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) since 1992.

Albert Marcet Torrens
Born (1960-04-11) April 11, 1960
NationalitySpanish
InstitutionUniversitat Autonoma de Barcelona
University of Minnesota
London School of Economics
FieldMonetary economics
Alma materUniversitat Autonoma de Barcelona
University of Minnesota[1]
InfluencesThomas Sargent
ContributionsLearning
Recursive contracts
Information at IDEAS / RePEc

Career

He holds a degree in Economics from Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and a PhD in Economics from University of Minnesota.

He was a professor of Economics at the London School of Economics and Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF).[2]

He has also served as President of the Spanish Economic Association (2007). In 2013, he received an Advanced Grant from the European Research Council (ERC) for his project, Asset Prices and Macro Policy when Agents Learn. Professor Marcet was the first Director of the Barcelona GSE Master in Macroeconomic Policy and Financial Markets. He now serves as its Scientific Director and teaches master courses in the program.[2]

He has worked extensively in the field of agents' expectations modeling, working with Thomas Sargent and Juan Pablo Nicolini.[3][4][5]

Awards

References
  1. Curriculum Vitae Archived 2011-07-26 at the Wayback Machine at EABCN
  2. Barcelona Graduate School of Economics
  3. Marcet, Albert; Sargent, Thomas J (1989). "Convergence of least squares learning mechanisms in self-referential linear stochastic models". Journal of Economic Theory. 48 (2): 337–368. doi:10.1016/0022-0531(89)90032-X. ISSN 0022-0531.
  4. Sargent, Thomas J. (1989). "Two Models of Measurements and the Investment Accelerator". Journal of Political Economy. 97 (2): 251–287. doi:10.1086/261603. ISSN 0022-3808.
  5. Marcet, Albert; Nicolini, Juan P (2003). "Recurrent Hyperinflations and Learning". American Economic Review. 93 (5): 1476–1498. doi:10.1257/000282803322655400. hdl:10230/1145. ISSN 0002-8282.
  6. "Albert Marcet, premio Jaime I de Economía". Expansión (in Spanish). Valencia. 7 June 2016. Retrieved 5 July 2016.
  • Homepage at Institute for Economic Analysis (IAE)
  • CV
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