Ramon Marimon

Ramon Marimon is an Emeritus Research Professor of the Barcelona School of Economics (BSE) and Associate Researcher at the Center for Research on International Economics (CREI), one of BSE’s academic units. He was also a Professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF).

He is a a Research Fellow of CEPR and NBER. He was Professor and Pierre Werner Chair at the European University Institute (EUI). He has also been Assistant and Associate Professor at the University of Minnesota and taught at the University of Cambridge and Stanford University.

He served as the Chair of the BSE Board of Trustees from 2011-2018 and was also a co-founder of UPF and the first director of CREI.

Professor Marimon’s research interests include Macroeconomics, Monetary Theory, Contract Theory, Learning Theory and Labor Theory, with a special emphasis on European economic issues.

His work has been published in Econometrica, Journal of Political Economy, American Economic Review, Review of Economic Studies, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Monetary Theory, Review of Economic Dynamics, and other journals.

With Marimon is also an editor of the books, Economics Without Borders: Economic Research for European Policy Challenges (Cambridge University Press, 2017) and Computational Methods for the Study of Dynamic Economies (Cambridge University Press, 1999), among others.

In addition to his academic career, Professor Marimon was Secretary of State for Science and Technology in Spain (2000-2002) and has served in several Expert Groups advising the European Commission on R&D and Higher Education policy.

He holds a PhD from Northwestern University in the United States.