Events

Spain's dilemma

Luis Garicano and Javier Díaz

On 20 January 2014, the Rafael del Pino Foundation organised the dialogue "El dilema de España" with the participation of Luis Garicano and Javier Díaz on the occasion of the presentation of Luis Garciano's latest work of the same title.

Luis Garicano is Professor of Economics and Strategy in the Departments of Business Administration and Economics at the London School of Economics. He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Chicago, where he has spent most of his teaching and research career. His main areas of research are productivity growth, new technologies and work organisation. He has been a visiting professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the London Business School, among other academic institutions, and in 2007 he received the Banco Herrero Foundation Award for the best Spanish researcher under the age of 40 in the fields of economic, business and social knowledge. Luis Garicano is a member of the Advisory Board of the Rafael del Pino Foundation. Professor Garicano was founder of the economic blog "Nada es gratis" and co-author of the book of the same name. In "El dilema de España" he proposes "a short-term vision of what Spain needs to do to get out of the crisis": investment in human capital; in-depth reform of the State and the justice system; and obligatory compliance with the rules. With this, the author believes that Spain will be able to emerge from the "morass" in which it finds itself.

Javier Díaz-Giménez is Professor of Economics at IESE Business School. Prof. Díaz-Giménez has devoted most of his professional life to research and teaching in the field of macroeconomics. In his most recent work he analyses the macroeconomic consequences of fiscal policy and pension reforms. He has published the results of his research in some of the leading professional journals such as the Journal of Political Economy and the Journal of Monetary Economics. He is also the author of the university textbook Macroeconomics: First Concepts. Díaz-Giménez has been an advisor to the Spanish Ministry of Industry and, albeit for a short time, also an advisor to the Economic Office of the President.

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