Walter García-Fontes

BSE Emeritus Affiliated Professor

PhD, Stanford University

Research interests

  • Economics of Innovation and Technological Change
  • Industrial Organization
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Walter García-Fontes is an Emeritus Affiliiated Professor of the Barcelona School of Economics (BSE). He was a member of the Department of Economics and Business at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), one of BSE’s academic units. He has been a visiting professor at Catholic University of Leuven, Universidad de la República Oriental del Uruguay, Universidad Torcuato di Tella (Argentina), Universitat Jaume I, and Stanford University.

Professor García-Fontes is an applied economist. His main fields of research are Applied Industrial Economics, especially innovation-related issues, and Labor Economics. He is also interested in the Economics of Education, for instance in the performance of educational systems.

He earned his PhD at Stanford University.

Publications

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Publication

Estimating human capital externalities: The case of the Spanish provinces, 1995-2010

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Walter García-FontesandManuel Hidalgo
Revista de Economia Aplicada

January 2017
Publication

Inventors and Invention Processes in Europe: Results From the Patval-Eu Survey

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Stefano Brusoni, Gustavo Crespi, Dominique Francoz, Alfonso Gambardella, Walter García-Fontes, Aldo Geuna, Paola Giuri, Raul Gonzales, Dietmar Harhoff, and Karin Hoisl
Research Policy

December 2015
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