CREI Lectures in Macroeconomics⁴

Jordi Galí, Series Editor

Advisory Board

Fernando Broner
Gino Gancia
Alberto Martín
Giacomo Ponzetto
Jaume Ventura

Launched in 2008 with the Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI), these biennial lectures bring together young but already senior speakers, who have significantly contributed to the study of macroeconomics or international economics, to provide high-level summaries of recent work that has had a large impact on the profession.

The Economics of Sovereign Debt and Default Mark Aguiar and Manuel Amador
Fiscal crises and sovereign default repeatedly threaten the stability and growth of economies around the world. Mark Aguiar and Manuel Amador provide a unified and tractable theoretical framework that elucidates the key economics behind...
Global Production: Firms, Contracts, and Trade Structure Pol Antràs
Global Production is the first book to provide a fully comprehensive overview of the complicated issues facing multinational companies and their global sourcing strategies. Few international trade transactions today are based on the...
Technology Differences over Space and Time Francesco Caselli
Technology Differences over Space and Time looks at how countries use their productive resources—such as workers, skills, equipment and structures, and natural resources. Francesco Caselli develops methods to assess the efficiency...
Labor Markets and Business Cycles Robert Shimer
Labor Markets and Business Cycles integrates search and matching theory with the neoclassical growth model to better understand labor market outcomes. Robert Shimer shows analytically and quantitatively that rigid wages are important...