Paloma Lopez-Garcia

Paloma Lopez-Garcia is Adviser in the Economics Directorate of the European Central Bank (ECB). She leads the ECB Supply Side Team, in charge of the analysis of the supply side of the economy and potential output estimation and is also ECB mission chief for Cyprus. Since 2019, she has coordinated the ESCB expert group on productivity innovation and technological change, a forum of collaboration and research of more than 50 economists from 18 National Central Banks and the ECB. She previously coordinated the Competitiveness Research Network (CompNet). Prior to the ECB, she worked for 10 years in the Research and Economics Department of the Central Bank of Spain. She earned her PhD at the London School of Economics in 2003 under the supervision of Professor C. Pissarides. She has published in the European Economic Review, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Small Business Economics and Economics of Innovation and New Technology among other refereed journals. Her research topics are: microanalysis of productivity and employment growth; innovation; climate change; trade and competitiveness.