PhD, Harvard University
Jaume Ventura is Director and Senior Researcher at CREI, Professor at UPF, and BSE Research Professor. He is the Director of the BSE Master Program in International Trade, Finance, and Development.
Prior to joining CREI and UPF, Prof. Ventura was a tenured associate professor at MIT. He also taught at the University of Chicago, London Business School, and INSEAD. Professor Ventura has worked full-time for the World Bank, and has acted as a consultant for the Inter-American Development Bank. He is Fellow of the Econometric Society and the European Economic Association. He is a Research Associate of NBER and Research Fellow of CEPR, where he has been Co-Director of the International Macroeconomics program (2004-11). He has been editor of the Economic Journal and associate editor of Quarterly Journal of Economics, Review of Economics and Statistics, and Journal of the European Economics Association.
Professor Ventura's research specializes in Macroeconomics and International Economics. He has been the recipient of two Advanced Grants from the European Research Council (ERC).
- Elected Fellow of the Econometric Society (2018)
- ERC Advanced Grant, "Globalization, Economic Policy and Political Structure" (2015)
- ERC Advanced Grant, "Asset Bubbles and Economic Policy" (2009)
Working Papers
Publications
Exploring European Regional Trade
Journal of International Economics, Vol.146, December 2023, 10.1016/j.jinteco.2023.103747Open Access
Globalization and Political Structure
Journal of the European Economic Association, Vol.20, No 3, 1276-1310, June 2022, https://doi.org/10.1093/jeea/jvac019Monetary Policy for a Bubbly World
Review of Economic Studies, Vol.88, No 3, 1418–1456, May 2021, 10.1093/restud/rdaa045Open Access