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Master in International Trade, Finance and Development

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A letter to prospective students
from Prof. Fernando Broner, Program Director

"If you are keen to apply advanced, rigorous economic analysis to key policy questions such as poverty and economic instability, ITFD is the right master for you."


Prof. Fernando Broner – Program Director

Fernando Broner is a researcher at CREI and adjunct professor of economics at Universitat Pompeu Fabra. He received his PhD from MIT in 2000. Prior to joining CREI and UPF, he was an assistant professor at the University of Maryland. He is an advisor to the international economic research department at the Bank of Spain, and has consulted for the IMF and the World Bank. His research specializes in international finance.

 

Webpage: www.crei.cat/people/broner

email: fbroner_at_crei_dot_cat

 

Prof. Antonio Ciccone – Steering Committee Member

Antonio Ciccone is ICREA Research Professor of Economics at UPF. He received his PhD from Stanford in 1994. Prior to joining UPF, he was an assistant professor at Berkeley. He has also lectured on macro issues for the European Commission, the World Bank, and the European Central Bank and has consulted for the European Commission and the World Economic Forum. His research specializes in macroeconomics and economic growth.

 

Webpage: www.antoniociccone.eu

email: antonio.ciccone@upf.edu

 

Prof. Jaume Ventura – Steering Committee Member

Jaume Ventura is a senior researcher at CREI and a professor of economics at Universitat Pompeu Fabra. He received his PhD from Harvard in 1995. Prior to joining CREI and UPF, he was a tenured associate professor at MIT. He has also taught at the University of Chicago and INSEAD. Ventura has worked full-time for the World Bank, and acted as a consultant for the Inter-American Development Bank. His research specializes in macroeconomics and international economics.

 

Webpage: www.crei.cat/people/jventura/

email: jventura@crei.cat

 

Prof. Joachim Voth – Steering Committee Member

Hans-Joachim Voth is ICREA Research Professor of Economics at UPF. He received his Ph.D. from Oxford in 1996. Following a stint as a faculty member in Cambridge, UK, he worked as a Senior Associate at McKinsey. He has held visiting positions at Stanford, MIT, NYU, and Princeton. Voth has acted as an advisor to the German Stock Exchange. His area of specialization is financial and economic history, with an emphasis on the history of speculative bubbles and stock markets, as well as economic growth over the long run. 

 

Webpage: www.econ.upf.es/~voth/

Blog:  International Trade News and Info

Email: jvoth@crei.cat

 

Steering Committee Members

Antonio CicconeJaume Venturafaculty
Antonio Ciccone
Jaume Ventura
Joachim Voth

Selected Research by Fernando Broner

"Globalization and Risk Sharing" (with J. Ventura) Review of Economic Studies, 78(1), 2011, 49-82.

"Sovereign Risk and Secondary Markets" (with A. Martin and J. Ventura) American Economic Review, 100, 2010, 1523-1555.

"Discrete Devaluations and Multiple Equilibria in a First Generation Model of Currency Crises" Journal of Monetary Economics, 55(3), 2008, 592-605.

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