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Luis Franjo García February 2017 LUIS FRANJO GARCÍA FEBRUARY 2017 CONTACT INFORMATION College of Management Phone Contact: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) Office: +41 21 693 00 76 Station 5 Cell Phone 1: +41 78 825 56 93 CH – 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland Cell Phone 2: +34 69 988 86 45 Email: [email protected] URL: https://sites.google.com/site/luisfranjogarcia/home CURRENT POSITION October 2013 to present Postdoc Fellow, Chair of International Finance, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL). EDUCATION October 2013 Ph.D. in Economics, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. MSc in Economics, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. BA in Economics, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. RESEARCH INTERESTS Primary Fields Macroeconomics, International Macroeconomics, Housing. Secondary Fields Growth, Consumption and Savings. VISITING POSITIONS 2009 (Feb – Jun) Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM). WORK EXPERIENCE 2006-2008 Department of International Economics, Bank of Spain. Research Assistant. 1 TEACHING EXPERIENCE Instructor: 2015 - Global Business Environment, Master in Management, Technology and Entrepreneurship, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). - Macrofinance, Master in Financial Engineering, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). 2013 Recursive Methods in Macroeconomics, Ph.D. course, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). Teaching Assistant: 2013-2016 Global Business Environment, Master in Management, Technology and Entrepreneurship, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). 2012 Principles of Economics, undergraduate course, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. 2010-2012 Microeconomics, undergraduate course, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. 2010 Macroeconomics IV, undergraduate course, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. 2010 Macroeconomics, undergraduate course, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. 2009 Public Economy II, undergraduate course, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. 2003 Game Theory, undergraduate course, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. 2005-2006 Introduction to Economics (Law), undergraduate course, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. 2004-2006 Labor Economics, undergraduate course, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. 2004-2006 Macroeconomics IV, undergraduate course, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. 2003-2006 Macroeconomics II, undergraduate course, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. RESEARCH GRANTS, HONORS AND AWARDS 2009-2013 Graduate Scholarship, Department of Economics, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. 2003-2006 Graduate Scholarship, Department of Economics, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. INVITED AND CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS 2017 - 2017 ASSA Annual Meeting, Chicago. - Universitat de les Illes Balears. - Universidad de Alicante. - Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. - Univeridad del Rosario. 2016 - Spanish Economic Association (SAEe) 2016, Bilbao. 2015 - Interaction between Housing and the Economy, HU & TU, Berlin. - Barcelona GSE Summer Forum. - Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Sevilla. 2014 - 18th Conference Theory and Methods in Macroeconomics (T2M), Lausanne. - 6th Sinergia Common Workshop, Geneva. - 5th Workshop IIBEO, Sardinia. - Universitat de Barcelona. 2 2013 - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, EPFL. - Banco de México. - Centro de Estudios Monetarios Latinoamericanos, CEMLA. - Copenhagen Business School. 2012 - Spanish Economic Association (SAEe) 2012, Vigo. - I. I. D. Seminar, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid 2011 - CIII Macro-Workshop, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid - Student Workshop, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid - XVI Workshop on Dynamic Macroeconomics, Vigo - ENTER Jamboree 2011, Tilburg University. Discussant. 2010 - CIII Macro-Workshop, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid PUBLISHED PAPERS "Capital goods, measured TFP and growth: The case of Spain," European Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 83(C), pages 19-39, 2016. Joint work with Antonia Díaz. WORKING PAPERS “Housing, Growth, and Global Imbalances”. Joint work with Luisa Lambertini and Serhiy Stepanchuk. Job Market Paper. "International Interest Rates and Housing Markets," Working Papers 201501, Center for Fiscal Policy, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Feb 2015. WORK IN PROGRESS “Government Debt in the Spanish Economy”. Joint work with Antonia Díaz. LANGUAGES Spanish (native), English (fluent), French (A1/A2). REFERENCES Antonia Díaz Andrés Erosa Associate Professor Associate Professor Department of Economics Department of Economics Universidad Carlos III de Madrid Universidad Carlos III de Madrid Phone: +34 916 245 733 Phone: +34 916 248 666 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] 3 Luisa Lambertini Luis Antonio Puch Associate Professor Associate Professor College of Management Departamento de Economía Cuantitativa Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Universidad Complutense de Madrid Lausanne (EPFL) Phone: +34 935 814 324 Phone: +41 021 693 00 50 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] 4 .
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