The Workshop in International Economics, organised by the Fundación Ramón Areces, the Asociación de Técnicos Comerciales y Economistas del Estado and the Fundación Rafael del Pino, takes place at the Real Colegio Complutense (RCC) at Harvard University, under the direction of Dartmouth College Professor Diego A. Comín.
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The Workshop in International Economics, organised by the Fundación Ramón Areces, the Asociación de Técnicos Comerciales y Economistas del Estado and the Fundación Rafael del Pino, takes place at the Real Colegio Complutense (RCC) at Harvard University, under the direction of Dartmouth College Professor Diego A. Comín.
The Programme, structured in 9 master sessions, is mainly addressed to Spanish Commercial Technicians and State Economists, university professors and researchers related to the aspects under study, who can share their knowledge with the main academic and research figures in the field of international economics.
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Academic Management
Diego CominDiego is a Professor of Economics at Dartmouth since 2014. He received his B.A. in Economics in 1995 from the University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain and his PhD in Economics from Harvard University in 2000. Between 2000 and 2007, Comin has been Assistant Professor of Economics at New York University. Between 2007 and 2014, Comin has been Associate Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School (HBS) where he taught both in the MBA and in executive programs. He has also designed and led immersion programs in Peru and Malaysia for which he received the Apgar Prize for Innovation in Teaching from the HBS Dean. Comin is Research Fellow at the Center for Economic Policy Research and Faculty Research Fellow in the National Bureau of Economic Research's Economic Fluctuations and Growth Program. Comin is a fellow for the Institute of New Economic Thinking (INET) and his work has been supported by the Gates foundation, the National Science Foundation, the C.V. Star Foundation, and the Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW). Comin is advising the Prime Minister of Malaysia on its development strategies and has consulted for the World Bank, IMF, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Citibank, Danish Science Ministry, and the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) of the government of Japan. Comin works on macroeconomics broadly understood. Part of his research consists of studying the process of technological change and technology diffusion both across countries and over time. A second avenue of Comin's work studies the sources and propagation mechanisms of fluctuations at high and medium term frequencies. A third line of research pursued by Comin has explored the evolution of firm dynamics and their implications for the evolution of the US economy. His work has been published in academic journals, including the American Economic Review, the American Economic Journal, the Journal of Monetary Economics, the Review of Economics and Statistics and the Journal of Economic Growth. Comin has written the book Malaysia Beyond 2020 where he presents a new approach to development policy that aims to create a knowledgefriendly eco-system where companies can move up in the value chain.
Academic Coordination
Carlota Taboada
Director of Research Programmes, Virtual Campus and International Training Programmes at the Rafael del Pino Foundation.
Teaching Team
- Christopher Snyder
Christopher is the Joel Z. and Susan Hyatt Professor in the Economics Department at Dartmouth College. He specializes in the economics of markets, contracting, and health. He is a Research Associate in the National Bureau of Economic ResearchOpens in a new window, Faculty Co-director of the Market Shaping Accelerator, and Treasurer of the Industrial Organization Society. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1994. He lives in Hanover, New Hampshire, with his wife, Maura Doyle, who is a senior lecturer in the Economics Department.
- David Lagakos
David conducts research in the fields of macroeconomics and development economics, focusing on the determinants of sectoral productivity levels, human capital accumulation, structural transformation, and cross-country differences in labor market outcomes, among other topics. His research has appeared in the American Economic Review, the Journal of Political Economy, the Quarterly Journal of Economics and other prominent academic journals. He currently serves as an editor of the Review of Economic Dynamics and a co-editor of the Journal of Development Economics. Since 2016 he has worked as the lead academic for the International Growth Centre in Ghana, helping to foster policy-relevant academic research on economic growth. Lagakos is a research affiliate at the NBER and is a co-organizer of the annual NBER conferences on Economic Growth and Macroeconomics Across Time and Space. Before joining the faculty of Boston University, Lagakos was an associate professor with tenure at the University of California San Diego, and held previous positions at Arizona State University and the Federal Reserve Banks of Minneapolis and New York. He received his PhD in 2008 from UCLA and his BA in 2001 from the University of Rochester.
- Oded Galor
Oded is the founder of Unified Growth Theory. He has contributed to the understanding of process of development over the entire course of human history and the role of deep-rooted factors in the transition from stagnation to growth and in the emergence of the vast inequality across the globe. Moreover, he has pioneered the exploration of the impact of human evolution, human genetic diversity, and inequality on the process of development over most of human existence. His interdisciplinary research has redirected research in the field of economic growth to the exploration of the long shadow of history and to the role of biogeographical forces in comparative economic development. It has spawned the influential literatures studying the impact of inequality on the process of development, the interaction between human evolution and economic development, the transition from stagnation to growth, and the impact of human diversity on comparative economic development. Oded has led the NBER research group on Income Distribution and Macroeconomics and he is a Research Fellow of the CEPR and IZA, a Research Associate of the NBER and CESifo, a Sackler Fellow at Tel-Aviv University, and a Fellow of the Economics Department at the Hebrew University. Furthermore, he is the Editor in Chief of the Journal of Economic Growth, Editor of the Journal of Population Economics, Co-Editor of Macroeconomic Dynamics, a member of the editorial board of several journals, including Economics and Human Biology, the Journal of Economic Inequality.
- Treb Allen
Treb is Distinguished Associate Professor of Economics and Globalisation at Dartmouth College and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Allen received his PhD from Yale University and previously held positions at Northwestern, Stanford and Princeton Universities. His research in the fields of international economics, development economics, urban economics and economic geography has been published in leading economic journals such as Econometrica, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Political Economy and Review of Economic Studies.
Allen is the recipient of the WTO Essay Prize for Young Economists, the Kiel Institute's Award for Excellence in Global Economics and an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship. He is co-editor of the Journal of International Economics, associate editor of Econometrica and a member of the Editorial Board of the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy.
- Pol Antrás
Pol is Robert G. Ory Professor of Economics at Harvard University, where he has taught since 2003. He is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), where he was Director of the International Trade and Organisation Task Force (ITO). He is also a research affiliate of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and a member of the CESifo research network.
He was editor of the Quarterly Journal of Economics from 2015 to 2020, having previously served on the editorial board of the American Economic Review, Review of Economic Studies, Journal of International Economics and Annual Review of Economics, among other journals. He is a member of the Scientific Council of the Barcelona School of Economics. Among other distinctions, he was awarded an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship in 2007 and the Fundación Banco Herrero Award in 2009, and was elected Fellow of the Econometric Society in 2015. Antràs's fields of teaching and research are international economics and applied theory.
His recent work focuses on global value chains, the interaction between globalisation and interest rates, global pandemics and international relations. Born in Spain, Antràs holds a BA and MA in Economics from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, and a PhD in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2003.
- David Laibson
David is the Robert I. Goldman Professor of Economics and Chairman of the Department of Economics at Harvard University. He leads Harvard University's Foundations of Human Behavior Initiative. Laibson's research focuses on the topic of behavioral economics, with emphasis on household finance, macroeconomics, aging, and intertemporal choice. Laibson is also a member of the National Bureau of Economic Research, where he co-directs the National Institute of Aging Roybal Center for Behavior Change in Health and Savings, and is a Research Associate in the Aging, Asset Pricing, and Economic Fluctuations Working Groups. Laibson serves on the Board of the Russell Sage Foundation and on Harvard's Pension Investment Committee. Laibson serves on the advisory board of the Social Science Genetics Association Consortium and has served on the Academic Research Council of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Laibson is a recipient of a Marshall Scholarship. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is a recipient of the TIAA-CREF Paul A. Samuelson Award for Outstanding Scholarly Writing on Lifelong Financial Security. Laibson holds degrees from Harvard University (AB in Economics, Summa), the London School of Economic (MSc in Econometrics and Mathematical Economics), and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD in Economics). He received his PhD in 1994 and has taught at Harvard since then. In recognition of his teaching, he has been awarded Harvard's BK Prize and a Harvard College Professorship.
- Dani Rodrik
Dani is an economist whose research covers globalization, economic growth and development, and political economy. He is the Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government. He rejoined the Kennedy School faculty in July 2015 after two years at the Institute for Advanced Study as the Albert O. Hirschman Professor in the School of Social Science. Professor Rodrik's most recent book is Economics Rules: The Rights and Wrongs of the Dismal Science (Norton, 2015).
- David N. Weil
David is James and Merryl Tisch Professor of Economics at Brown University, director of the James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Wealth and Income Inequality Project at Brown, and a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. Weil has written widely on various aspects of economic growth, including the empirical determinants of income variation among countries, the contribution of health improvements to growth, the geographic determinants of development, the measurement of income inequality, the accumulation of physical capital, international technology transfer, population growth, and the use of satellite observation as a measurement tool. His textbook on growth has been translated into six languages. He has also written on assorted topics in demographic and health economics including the economic impacts of malaria and salt iodization, population aging, Social Security, the gender wage gap, retirement, and the relationship between demographics and house prices. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1990.
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