Omar Licandro is a Research Professor at the Instituto de Análisis Económico (CSIC), which he first joined in 2009. Since 2013, he has been Secretary General of the International Economic Association (IEA) and the Executive Secretary of the Research Institute for Development, Growth and Economics (RIDGE). He is a Fellow of CEPR.
He was an associate professor at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, 1991-2000, a senior researcher at FEDEA from 1994-2001 and a professor at the European University Institute in Italy from 2001-2009. He has been Associate Editor of Annales d'Economie et de Statistique, Investigaciones Economicas and the Spanish Economic Review.
Prof. Licandro served as Research Director of the BSE from 2010-12 and the scientific leader of the BSE Severo Ochoa Award, 2011-2012.
- 2014: BSE Seed Grant, "The Dynamics of Productivity at the Firm Level"
Working Papers
The Neoclassical Model and the Welfare Costs of Selection
Publications
Giammario Impullitti, Omar Licandro and Pontus Rendahl
Technology, Market Structure and the Gains from Trade
Journal of International Economics, Vol.135, March 2022, 10.1016/j.jinteco.2021.103557
David De la Croix and Omar Licandro
The Longevity of Famous People From Hammurabi to Einstein
Journal of Economic Growth, Vol.20, No 3, 263--303, January 2015, 10.1007/s10887-015-9117-0Recognition Program
Mauro Bambi, Fausto Gozzi and Omar Licandro