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Ciccone, Antonio
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ICREA Research Professor at UPF (Universitat Pompeu Fabra). Social & Behavioural Sciences
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I was born in Villanova del Battista, Italy, in 1966 and grew up in Obereisesheim, Germany. I started studying economics in Freiburg and Konstanz and finished at the London School of Economics in 1990, where I did the MSc in Mathematical Economics and Econometrics. I got my PhD in Economics from Stanford University in June 1994. I started teaching and doing research at UPF just afterwards.
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Research Interests
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I work in macroeconomics broadly defined. Examples of my past work are a study of how much of the spatial differences in productivity in the US can be explained by agglomeration economies; a study on the extent to which international trade raises the income levels of countries; and a study on the strength of positive externalities to higher levels of schooling. In my latest research I have examined the links between economic performance and politics. Three examples are a study on the link between rainfall-driven economic shocks and civil conflict; a study on the effect of rainfall-driven economic shocks on democratization; and a study on the role of oil-price shocks on democratization.
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KeyWords
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Macroeconomics, growth economics, development economics
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