Ramon Xifré

Welcome to my professional webpage!

As an economist I am interested in the competitiveness of the Spanish and EU economies and the related policies and structural reforms on issues such as the business environment, public administration, internationalisation and R&D and innovation.

I am Associate Professor and Research Director at ESCI-UPF School of International Studies since 2004. Since 2012 I am also Faculty Member at the UPF Barcelona School of Management and Policy Research Fellow at the Public-Private Research Center (PPSRC) at IESE Business School.

From January 2009 to December 2011 I was on leave serving as Senior Economic Policy Advisor at the Spanish Prime Minister Economic Bureau. 

 My CV can be downloaded from here.


Education 


Work in progress


Main contributions to Spanish Government economic policy 


Books


Papers in journals with impact factor

Competitiveness and Structural Reforms

Sustainability Management


Commissioned reports


Papers on other topics


Working papers


Teaching

In ESCI - UPF

In Universiad Carlos III de Madrid


Communication and media in English

VOX columns


Communication and media in Catalan and Spanish

Funcas Blog

Entries in the Nada es Gratis blog

Entries in 5centims.cat blog

Entry in Cristianisme i Justícia blog

Media and popular press


The Spanish Reforms project

With the support from of FUNCAS, PPSRC-IESE and Xavier Vives, I started up the Spanish Reforms project in 2013 and it was active until 2018. The project provided an independent monitoring of the status of the economic policy reforms adopted in Spain and kept track of recommendations for reform offered by the IMF, European Commission and the OECD. One of the outcomes was the release of six Reform Monitors, which was made possible thanks to generous contribution of some of most distinguished Spanish economists. The following Reform Monitors were released: 

Contact information

Ramon Xifré

ESCI-UPF School of International Studies

Pg. Pujades 1

08003 Barcelona (Spain)

Tel. (+34) 93 295 47 10 - ext. 203

email: ramon.xifre@esci.upf.edu