The Nottingham School of Economics is delighted to announce that three new colleagues, Facundo Albornoz Crespo, Holger Breinlich and Omar Licandro, have joined us this term. We very much look forward to working with them.
Facundo Albornoz Crespo holds a PhD in Economics from the EHESS/Paris School of Economics. He joined the University of Nottingham in 2015, where he is currently an Associate Professor. Before coming to Nottingham he held academic positions at the University of Birmingham and the Universidad de San Andrés in Argentina (currently on leave). He is a Research Fellow of the Argentine National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), the Nottingham Centre for Research on Globalisation and Economic Policy (GEP) and the Nottingham Interdisciplinary Centre for Economic and Political Research (NICEP).
Facundo works in a variety of research areas such as international trade (firm export dynamics), education policy (behavioural interactions within the school system), cultural dynamics and international political economics (the effect of foreign interventions on conflict and democracy), with an underlying common interest in development economics. He has published in academic journals such as the Journal of International Economics, Journal of Development Economics and Journal of the European Economic Association. His research has been funded by the ESRC and the British Academy, and he has undertaken advisory work for agencies such as the World Bank, IADB and the OEI.
Holger Breinlich joined the School of Economics in September 2015, having held previous positions at the University of Essex and the University of Mannheim. He is also a research associate at the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) and a research affiliate at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). He obtained his PhD from the London School of Economics in 2006.
Holger’s areas of research interests are international trade, economic geography, industrial organization, corporate finance and applied econometrics. His most recent publications are: ‘Tariffs, Trade and Productivity: A Quantitative Evaluation of Heterogeneous Firm Models Economic Journal’, 2015 (with Alejandro Cunat); and ‘Heterogeneous Firm-Level Responses to Trade Liberalization: A Test Using Stock Price Reactions’ Journal of International Economics, 2014.
Omar Licandro joins the Nottingham School of Economics in October 2015 as Professor of Macroeconomics. His main research field is macroeconomics with special interest in growth theory. His main contributions are on vintage capital theory, embodied technical progress and on the transition from Malthus to modern growth. He has recently contributed to the literature on the competitive role of trade, in particular under firm heterogeneity.
Omar most recently held positions at the Instituto de Analisis Economico, Barcelona; the European University Institute, Florence, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and FEDEA. He is Secretary General of the International Economic Association (IEA) and the Executive Secretary of the Research Institute for Development, Growth and Economics (RIDGE).
Omar’s most recent journal publications are: “The Longevity of Famous People from Hammurabi to Einstein” Journal of Economic Growth, forthcoming, with David de la Croix; “Endogenous Growth and Wave-Like Business Fluctuation,” Journal of Economic Theory, 2015, with Mauro Bambi and Fausto Gozzi; and “The Child is Father of the Man: Implications for the Demographic Transition” Economic Journal, 2013, with David de la Croix.
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Posted on Thursday 1st October 2015