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Ciccone, Antonio
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ICREA Research Professor at UPF (Universitat Pompeu Fabra). Social Sciences
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I was born in Villanova del Battista, Italy, in 1966 and grew up in Neckarsulm-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 and moved to Barcelona and started teaching at UPF just afterwards.
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Research Interest
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I work in macroeconomics broadly defined. For example, I have tried to understand the extent to which international trade raises the income levels of countries; whether there are positive externalities to higher levels of schooling; and whether a better educated population leads to a shift in countries’ production structure towards industries requiring higher schooling levels. In recent research, I have examined whether better developed financial markets speed up efficient factor reallocation across economic sectors. I have also written a methodological paper, where I show that the available income data is too imprecise to be approached without any priors about what matters and what does not for economic growth. My latest papers are on the determinants of civil wars and democratization in Africa. The civil war paper examines the claim that commodity price downturns (and the recessions they cause) raise the likelihood of civil war, and finds that this is in fact the case. The democratiz
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KeyWords
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Macroeconomics, growth economics, development economics
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