Manuel García-Santana

UPF and BSE

PhD, CEMFI

Research interests

  • Macroeconomics
  • Trade
  • Aggregate Productivity
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Professor Manuel García-Santana (PhD CEMFI) is a tenured Associate Professor at Pompeu Fabra University, Affiliated Professor at the Barcelona School of Economics, CREI Research Associate, and CEPR Research Fellow. Since 2024, he is co-leader of CEPR-STEG Theme 5: The Role of the Public Sector. At present, he serves as an Associate Editor of the Journal of International Economics and the Journal of the Spanish Economic Association. Professor García-Santana was a postdoctoral fellow at Université Libre de Bruxelles-ECARES and a Senior Economist at the World Bank.

He is an applied macroeconomist with interests in trade, growth, and development. His research focuses on understanding how trade, government policies, and market distortions affect aggregate productivity and welfare by changing the way resources are allocated across firms.

Awards, Grants, and Honors

Working Papers

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Buy Big or Buy Small? Procurement Policies, Firms’ Financing, and the Macroeconomy

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Julian di Giovanni,Manuel García-Santana,Priit Jeenas,Enrique Moral-Benito, andJosep Pijoan-Mas
BSE Working Paper 1321
February 2022
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Investment Demand and Structural Change

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Manuel García-Santana,Josep Pijoan-Mas, andLucciano Villacorta
BSE Working Paper 1113
September 2019
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Competition and the Welfare Gains from Transportation Infrastructure: Evidence from the Golden Quadrilateral of India

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José Asturias,Manuel García-Santana, andRoberto Ramos
BSE Working Paper 907
May 2016
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Growing like Spain: 1995-2007

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Manuel García-Santana,Enrique Moral-Benito,Josep Pijoan-Mas, andRoberto Ramos
BSE Working Paper 888
March 2016

Publications

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Recent global shocks: consequences and policies

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Manuel García-SantanaandEnrique Moral-Benito
SERIEs

July 2025
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Supplying the government improves your credit

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Julian di Giovanni, Manuel García-Santana, Priit Jeenas, Enrique Moral-Benito, and Josep Pijoan-Mas

October 2022
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Investment Demand and Structural Change

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Manuel García-Santana, Josep Pijoan-Mas, and Lucciano Villacorta
Econometrica

June 2021
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On the Direct and Indirect Real Effects of Credit Supply Shocks

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Laura Alfaro, Manuel García-Santana, and Enrique Moral-Benito
Journal of Financial Economics

October 2020
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Growing like Spain: 1995–2007

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Manuel García-Santana, Enrique Moral-Benito, Josep Pijoan-Mas, and Roberto Ramos
International Economic Review

May 2020
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From Final Goods to Inputs: The Protectionist Effect of Rules of Origin

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Paola Conconi, Manuel García-Santana, Laura Puccio, and Roberto Venturini
American Economic Review

January 2019
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Competition and the Welfare Gains from Transportation Infraestructure: Evidence from the Golden Quadrilateral of India

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José Asturias, Manuel García-Santana, and Roberto Ramos
Journal of the European Economic Association

November 2018
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