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Biography
Omar Licandro joined the School of Economics, University of Nottingham, as Professor of Macroeconomics in October 2015.
Previously he was a Research Professor at the Instituto de Análisis Económico (CSIC), which he first joined in 2009.
Since 2013, he has been Secretary General of the International Economic Association (IEA) and the Executive Secretary of the Research Institute for Development, Growth and Economics (RIDGE).
He is a Associate Professor of the Barcelona GSE, Fellow of CEPR and CESIfo.
He was Associate Professor at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, 1991-2000, Senior Researcher at FEDEA, 1994-2001 and Professor at the European University Institute, 2001-2009.
He has been Associate Editor of Annales d'Economie et de Statistique, Investigaciones Economicas and the Spanish Economic Review.
Professor Licandro's complete cv can be downloaded here in pdf format
Research Summary
Research Interests:
Growth theory
Technical progress
Vintage capital
Trade and Growth
The demographic transition
Recent Publications
GIAMMARIO IMPULLITTI and OMAR LICANDRO, 2017. Trade, firm selection, and innovation: the competition
channel The Economic Journal. (In Press.)
DE LA CROIX, DAVID and LICANDRO, OMAR, 2015. The longevity of famous people from Hammurabi to Einstein. Journal of Economic Growth. 20(3), 263-303 BAMBI, MAURO, GOZZI, FAUSTO and LICANDRO, OMAR, 2014. Endogenous growth and wave-like business fluctuations. Journal of Economic Theory. 154, 68-111