Departmental Seminar with Manuel Garcia-Santana (UPF)

Manuel García-Santana is Associate Professor of Economics and Distinguished Researcher at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF).  He is also a Research Associate at the Center for Research on International Economics (CREI) and Affiliated Professor at the Barcelona School of Economics. He is a STEG Theme Leader (the Role of the Public Sector) and a Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). Among his editorial duties, he is Associate Editor of the Journal of International Economics and of the Journal of the Spanish Economic Association (SERIEs). Between 2022 and 2025 he was a Senior Economist at the World Bank.

He works works in the field of macroeconomics, with special interest in trade, growth and development. His papers have been published in top journals such as American Economic Review, Journal of Monetary Economics, and International Economic Review. In 2020, he was awarded (together with José Asturias and Roberto Ramos) the Hicks‐Tinbergen Medal for the best paper published in the Journal of European Economic Association over the past two years. In 2025 he was awarded a European Research Council (ERC) Consolidated Grant for his project Government Intervention and the Macroeconomy: Micro-evidence on the Transmission of Government Procurement (fromMicroGtoY).

Manuel García-Santana's website

He will present a paper, joint with Miquel Lorente, Joshua Mascord, and Marta Santamaría, at the next Departmental Seminar on the topic:

Buying Home: State Procurement Preferences and Economic Consequences (read abstract, PDF 42 KB)

The next Departmental Seminar will host Moritz KUHN (University of Mannheim) on March 30th.