Introduction
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 and Director of the Institute for Economic Analysis (IAE) a research centre of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and AXA Research Chair on Macroeconomic Risk at the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics. He is also a Fellow of the Econometric Society and he has been a Research Fellow of Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) since 1992.
Career
He holds a degree in Economics from Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and a PhD in Economics from University of Minnesota.
He was a professor of Economics at the London School of Economics and Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF).
He has also served as President of the Spanish Economic Association (2007). In 2013, he received an Advanced Grant from the European Research Council (ERC) for his project, Asset Prices and Macro Policy when Agents Learn. Professor Marcet was the first Director of the Barcelona GSE Master in Macroeconomic Policy and Financial Markets. He now serves as its Scientific Director and teaches master courses in the program.
He has worked extensively in the field of agents' expectations modeling, working with Thomas Sargent and Juan Pablo Nicolini.
Awards
- King James I Awards in Economy, 2016.
- Wim Duisenberg Fellowship, European Central Bank, 2006.
- "Albert Marcet, premio Jaime I de Economía". Expansión (in Spanish). Valencia. 7 June 2016. Retrieved 5 July 2016.