Bio

Sergi Basco is Associate Professor of Economics (with tenure) in Universitat Barcelona and research fellow in BEAT. He received his PhD in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2010. The thesis committee were Daron Acemoglu (MIT), Pol Antràs (Harvard) and Ricardo Caballero (MIT). He received his BA and MSc in Economics (with honours) from Universitat Pompeu Fabra. 

Basco's research and teaching fields are international economics and macroeconomics. His work focusses on understanding the effects of globalization and economic crises. He is also interested in investigating the origin and consequences of asset price bubbles and, more broadly, the macroeconomic effects of changes in the credit supply. His academic work has been published in Journal of Economic Growth, Journal of International Economics, European Economic Review, Journal of Economic History, Explorations in Economic History, World Development, Journal of Economc Behavior and Organization, Journal of Banking & Finance, Economics and Human Biology, and Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics. His recent working papers can be found in the link. He has also collaborated in The Wall Street Journal and has contributed in Vox EU (CEPR's Policy Portal), World Economic Forum, LSE Blog, Ideas For India, SUERF (The European Money and Finance Forum), Nada Es Gratis, The Conversation and 5centims.cat. He has published the books Housing Bubbles: Origins and Consequences (Winner of the Catalan Society of Economics Prize 2020) and Pandemics, Economics and Inequality: Lessons from the Spanish Flu (joint with J. Domènech and J. Rosés). Since 2024, he is member of the advisory board of the Catalan Society of Economics. He is married with a daughter and lives in Barcelona.