CREI and Universitat Pompeu Fabra
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:

Barcelona GSE Affiliated Professor

CEPR Research Affiliate

 

Alberto Martin

Curriculum Vitae  [download pdf]

 

Teaching

Money and Exchange Rates – G (2012)

Topics in International Finance - G(2009, 2010, 2011)

Graduate International Finance - G(2007, 2008)

Graduate Micro - G(Fall 2005)

Introduction to Macroeconomics - U(2012)

Topics in Macroeconomics - U(2009, 2010, 2011)

Macroeconomía I - U(2011)

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 – coming soon
October 2011, with Jaume Ventura

 

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

 

·      Sovereign Default, Domestic Banks and Financial Institutions [pdf]
April 2011 (previous version July 2010), with Nicola Gennaioli and Stefano Rossi
Revise and resubmit at the Journal of Finance
Read a non-technical summary on VOXEU

 

·      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

 

·      Understanding Bubbly Episodes [pdf]
with Vasco Carvalho and Jaume Ventura, forthcoming American Economic Review P&P

 

·      International Capital Flows and Credit Market Imperfections: a Tale of Two Frictions [pdf]
with Filippo Taddei, accepted subject to minor revisions, Journal of International Economics
July 2011(previous version, November 2010)

 

·      Economic Growth with Bubbles [pdf] – New revision
with Jaume Ventura, forthcoming, American Economic Review
September 2011 (previous version July 2011)
Read a non-technical summary of this research on VOXEU

 

·      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

 

·      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

·          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