Biography

Emeritus Professor of Economics at the European University Institute

Ramon Marimon is an Emeritus Professor of Economics at the European University Institute (EUI), Emeritus Professor of Economics and Research Professor at the Barcelona School of Economics (BSE), and Research Associate at the CREi. Fellow of the Econometric Society and the European Economic Association and Research Fellow of CEPR and NBER. He has been Professor of Economics at the Pompeu Fabra University (1990 – 2024), Professor of Economics and Pierre Werner Chair at the European University Institute, Assistant and Associate Professor at the University of Minnesota. He also taught at the University of Cambridge and Stanford University. He holds a PhD from Northwestern University (1984). President of the Board of Trustees of the Barcelona School of Economics (2011-2018), President of the Society for Economic Dynamics (2012-2015) and of the Spanish Economic Association (2004), Director of the Max Weber Programme at the EUI (2006-2013). Director of more than thirty PhD theses (UofM, UPF and EUI). He was co-founder of the UPF and dean and professor of Economics and Business (1990 - 1992), and founder and acting director of the CREi (1994). He was Secretary of State for Science and Technology of Spain (2000-2002; creator of the Ramón y Cajal Postdoctoral Programme, among other initiatives of the Ministry of Science and Technology). Advisor to the European Commission on scientific and technological policies (2002 - 2009) and to the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) on debt policies (2022 - 2024). Member of the CEPR research network on European Economic Policy (2018 - 2024). His research interests include Macroeconomics, Monetary and Fiscal Theory, Contract Theory, Expectations Theory and Learning in Economics and the Labour Market, with special emphasis on economic issues of the European Union. He has published in Econometrica, Journal of Political Economy, The Review of Economic Studies, American Economic Review, Journal of Monetary Economics, The Journal of the European Economic Association and other international economic journals; he has also published opinion pieces in El País and Agenda Pública.

Research projects, clusters and working groups

Completed

• A Dynamic Economic and Monetary Union

Supervisees

• Aleksei Kiselev

Fields of expertise

Recent research output

• “On the Optimal Design of a Financial Stability Fund” (with Á. Ábrahám, E. Cárceles-Poveda and Y. Liu), 2025, Review of Economic Studies, forthcoming.
• “Making Sovereign Debt Safe with a Financial Stability Fund” (with Y. Liu and A. Wicht), 2023, Journal of International Economic, 145, 103834.
• “On a lender of last resort with a central bank and a stability fund” (with G. Callegari, A. Wicht and L. Zavalloni), 2023, Review of Economic Dynamics, 50, 106-130.
• "A Worker's Backpack as Alternative to the Spanish PAYG Pension System" (with J. Díaz-Saavedra and J. Brogueira de Sousa), 2023, Journal of the European Economic Association (JEEA), 21(5), 1944-1993.
• "On the Design of a European Unemployment Insurance System" (with Arpad Abraham, Joao Brogueira de Sousa and Lukas Mayr), 2023, European Economic Review, 156, 104469.
• “The Envelope Theorem, Euler and Bellman Equations, without Differentiability” (with J. Werner), 2021, Journal of Economic Theory, 196, 105309.
• “Breaking the Spell with Credit-Easing: Self-Confirming Credit Crises in Competitive Search Economies” (with G. Gaballo), Journal of Monetary economics, 2021,119, 1-20.
• “Commitment in Organisations and the Competition for Talent” (with T. Cooley and V. Quadrini), The Review of Economic Studies, 2020, 87(5), 2165-2204.