Omar Licandro

IAE-CSIC and BSE - on leave

PhD, Catholic University of Louvain

Research interests

  • Growth Theory
  • Technical Progress
  • Vintage Capital
  • Trade and Growth
  • The Demographic Transition
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Omar Licandro is a Research Professor at the Institute for Economics Analysis (IAE-CSIC) and an Affilated Professor of the Barcelona School of Economics (BSE). He is currently on leave at the University of Leicester Business School. He is a Fellow of CESifo.

Professor Licandro was Secretary General of the International Economic Association (IEA) from 2013 to 2021, and he is currently the IEA Treasurer. He has been the Executive Secretary of the Research Institute for Development, Growth and Economics (RIDGE) since its foundation in 2014. He has been Associate Editor of Annales d’Economie et de Statistique, Investigaciones Económicas and the Spanish Economic Review, and a Research Fellow at the CEPR.

He served as Research Director of BSE from 2010-12 and the scientific leader of the BSE Severo Ochoa Award, 2011-2012.

Awards, Grants, and Honors

  • 2014: BSE Seed Grant, “The Dynamics of Productivity at the Firm Level”

Working Papers

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On the Pass-Through of Large Devaluations

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Carlos CasacubertaandOmar Licandro
BSE Working Paper 1391
May 2023
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Is the Output Growth Rate in NIPA a Welfare Measure?

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Jorge DuránandOmar Licandro
BSE Working Paper 1357
September 2022
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The Neoclassical Model and the Welfare Costs of Selection

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Fabrice CollardandOmar Licandro
BSE Working Paper 1283
September 2021
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Switching-track after the Great Recession

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Omar LicandroandFrancesca Vinci
BSE Working Paper 1260
May 2021
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Technology, Market Structure and the Gains from Trade

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Giammario Impullitti,Omar Licandro, andPontus Rendahl
BSE Working Paper 1259
May 2021
Working Paper

The Longevity of Famous People from Hammurabi to Einstein

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David De la CroixandOmar Licandro
BSE Working Paper 666
September 2015
Working Paper

Is the GDP Growth Rate in NIPA a Welfare Measure?

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Jorge DuránandOmar Licandro
BSE Working Paper 665
September 2015
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Vintage Capital Growth Theory: Three Breakthroughs

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Raouf Boucekkine,David De la Croix, andOmar Licandro
BSE Working Paper 565
September 2015
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Endogenous Growth and Wave-Like Business Fluctuation

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Mauro BambiandOmar Licandro
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Trade, Firm Selection, and Innovation: the Competition Channel

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Giammario ImpullittiandOmar Licandro
BSE Working Paper 495
September 2015
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Trade Liberalization, Competition and Growth

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Omar LicandroandAntonio Navas
BSE Working Paper 436
September 2015
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Firm Dynamics and the Importance of the Embodied Question

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Alain GablerandOmar Licandro
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The Child is Father of the Man: Implications for the Demographic Transition

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David De la CroixandOmar Licandro
BSE Working Paper 376
September 2015

Publications

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Technology, Market Structure and the Gains from Trade

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Giammario Impullitti, Omar Licandro, and Pontus Rendahl
Journal of International Economics

February 2022
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Endogenous growth and wave-like business fluctuations

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Mauro Bambi, Fausto Gozzi, and Omar Licandro
Journal of Economic Theory

August 2017
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An Evolutionary theory of Inflation Inertia

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Alexis Anagnostopoulos, Italo Bove, Omar Licandro, and Karl H. Schlag
Journal of the European Economic Association

December 2015
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The Longevity of Famous People From Hammurabi to Einstein

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David De la CroixandOmar Licandro
Journal of Economic Growth

December 2015
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Trade Liberalization, Competition and Growth

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Omar LicandroandAntonio Navas
B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics

December 2015
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The Child Is Father of the Man: Implications for the Demographic Transition*

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David De la CroixandOmar Licandro
The Economic Journal

January 2013
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