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Reynal-Querol, Marta
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ICREA Research Professor at UPF (Universitat Pompeu Fabra). Social & Behavioural Sciences
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Marta Reynal-Querol is ICREA Research Professor at the Department of Economics and Business at Universitat Pompeu Fabra. She is also affiliated Professor at the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics. She is member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Conflict Resolution, the European Journal of Political Economy. She is an award holder of the ERC-Starting grant, awarded by the European Research Council.
She holds a Ph. D. in Economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science (2001) and Master “With Honors” from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF). She worked at the World Bank between 2001 and 2005. She has published in American Economic Review, American Political Science Review, Review of Economics and Statistics, Economic Journal, Journal of Economic Growth, Journal of Development Economics, the European Journal of Political Economy, the Journal of Conflict Resolution, Journal of Comparative Economics, Defence and Peace Economics, among others.
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Research Interests
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My main research interest is the study of the causes and consequences of conflict and civil wars. In my first research area, I analyzed the relationship between religious and ethnic fractionalization, polarization, and conflict. I have also worked of the effectiveness of foreign aid, and its impact on institutional development.
More recently I work on the relationship between poverty and civil war. I find that the relationship between poverty and civil war is spurious, and it is accounted for by historical phenomena that jointly determine income evolution and conflict.
I now study the institutional designs that may prevent, or mitigate, such social conflicts. In particular I construct a database on the characteristics of leaders over the 20thcentury. I investigate whether there are systematic differences in the type of leaders that can explain the economic development of countries.
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KeyWords
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Conflict, Development, Institutions, ethnic diversity, leadership
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