Short Resume

Ramon Marimon earned his Ph.D. in Economics at Northwestern University 1984. Full professor at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF, since 1990) and at the European University Institute (1994-2000) was previously assistant and associate professor at the University of Minnesota (1984-1993) and has been visiting professor at Stanford University, Cambridge University, the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, the International Monetary Fund, the Santa Fe Institute, Ente Einaudi and Luiss University, among other places.

Co-founder of UPF as Dean and Chair of Economics and Business (1990-1991) and Secretary of State for Science and Technology in the Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology (2000-2002). First director of the Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREi) and of the Centre de Referència en Economia Analítica (CREA – Barcelona Economics). President of the Spanish Economic Association (2004), Research fellow of the NBER (since 1992) and of the CEPR (since 1993), member of the Council of the European Economic Association (since 2000), former co-editor of the Review of Economic Dynamics (1997 – 2000) and Chairman of the European Commission's “High Level Panel for the mid-term evaluation of the effectiveness of the New Instruments of the Framework Programme Six” (2003 – 2004).

His research interests include Macroeconomics, Monetary Theory, Labor Theory, Political Economy, Contract Theory, Learning Theory, and the Economics of Science and Innovation.

Selected publications:

• “Aggregate Consequences of Limited Contract Enforceability” (joint with Thomas Cooley and Vincenzo Quadrini), Journal of Political Economy (forthcoming).
• “Inside-Outside Money Competition” (joint with J.P.Nicolini and P.Teles), Journal of Monetary Economics , 2003.
• “Employment and Distributional Effects of Restricting Working Time” (joint with F. Zilibotti), European Economic Review , 44, 1291-1326. 2000.
• Computational Methods for the Study of Dynamic Economies (ed. with A. Scott), Oxford University Press. 1999.
• “The Economics of Split Voting in Representative Democracies” (joint with L. Jones and V.V. Chari) American Economic Review , 87, 5, 957-976. 1997.
• “Indeterminacy of Equilibria in a Hyperinflationary World: Experimental Evidence,” (joint with S. Sunder) Econometrica , 61, 1073-1107. 1993.