Albert Marcet

---

title: "Albert Marcet" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["living-people", "21st-century--spanish--economists", "20th-century--spanish-economists", "autonomous-university-of-barcelona-alumni", "academics-of-the-london-school-of-economics", "academics-of-university-college-london", "academic-staff-of-the-barcelona-school-of-economics", "university-of-minnesota-college-of-liberal-arts-alumni", "fellows-of-the-econometric-society", "1960-births"] description: "Spanish economist" topic_path: "economics" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Marcet" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Spanish economist ::

::data[format=table title="Infobox economist"]

Field	Value
name	Albert Marcet Torrens
image	A marcet.jpg
birth_date
birth_place	Spain
institution
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Barcelona School of Economics
field	Monetary economics
alma_mater	Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
University of Minnesota
influences	Thomas Sargent
contributions	Learning
Recursive contracts
repec_prefix	e
repec_id	pma173
::

| name = Albert Marcet Torrens | image = A marcet.jpg | school_tradition = | birth_date = | birth_place = Spain | death_date = | death_place = | institution =
Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona School of Economics | field = Monetary economics | alma_mater = Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona University of Minnesota | influences = Thomas Sargent | influenced = | contributions = Learning Recursive contracts | repec_prefix = e | repec_id = pma173 Albert Marcet Torrens (born 11 April 1960) is a Spanish economist, specialized in macroeconomics, time series, financial economics and economic dynamic theory. He is an ICREA Research Professor at the (CREI), and Research Professor at the Barcelona School of Economics (BSE), where he is also AXA Research Chair on Macroeconomic Risk, and Adjunct Professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF). Marcet is also a Fellow of the Econometric Society and he has been a Research Fellow of Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) since 1992.

Career

Albert Marcet holds a degree in Economics from Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and a PhD in Economics from University of Minnesota.

In the past, he has been a professor of Economics at the London School of Economics and ICREA Research Professor and Director of the Institute for Economic Analysis (IAE), a research center of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC).

He has also served as President of the Spanish Economic Association (2007). In 2013, he received an Advanced Grant from the European Research Council (ERC) for his project, Asset Prices and Macro Policy when Agents Learn. Professor Marcet was the first Director of the Barcelona School of Economics Master in Macroeconomic Policy and Financial Markets. He now serves as its Scientific Director and teaches courses in the program.

He has worked extensively in the field of agents' expectations modeling, working with Thomas Sargent and Juan Pablo Nicolini.

Awards

• European Research Council Advanced Grants, 2012 and 2017
• in Economy, 2016
• Wim Duisenberg Fellowship, European Central Bank, 2006

References

References

1. "Albert Marcet". Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI).
2. "Curriculum Vitae".
3. "Albert Marcet". Barcelona School of Economics (BSE).
4. (1989). "Convergence of least squares learning mechanisms in self-referential linear stochastic models". Journal of Economic Theory.
5. (1989). "Two Models of Measurements and the Investment Accelerator". Journal of Political Economy.
6. (2003). "Recurrent Hyperinflations and Learning". American Economic Review.
7. (7 June 2016). "Albert Marcet, premio Jaime I de Economía". Expansión.

::callout[type=info title="Wikipedia Source"] This article was imported from Wikipedia and is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Content has been adapted to SurfDoc format. Original contributors can be found on the article history page. ::