Albert Marcet

Albert Marcet Torrens
Born (1960-04-11) April 11, 1960
NationalitySpanish
Academic background
Alma materUniversitat Autonoma de Barcelona
University of Minnesota
InfluencesThomas Sargent
Academic work
DisciplineMonetary economics
InstitutionsCenter for Research in International Economics
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Barcelona School of Economics
Notable ideasLearning
Recursive contracts
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Albert Marcet Torrens (born 11 April 1960) is a Spanish economist, specialized in macroeconomics, time series, financial economics and economic dynamic theory. He is an ICREA Research Professor at the Center for Research in International Economics (CREI), and Research Professor at the Barcelona School of Economics (BSE), where he is also AXA Research Chair on Macroeconomic Risk, and Adjunct Professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF). Marcet is also a Fellow of the Econometric Society and he has been a Research Fellow of Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) since 1992.