Manuel García-Santana is a Senior Economist at the World Bank, in the Macroeconomics and Growth Team of the Development Research Group, and a CEPR Research Fellow. He is currently on leave as an Associate Professor with tenure at UPF, a Research Associate at CREI and an Affiliated Professor at the Barcelona School of Economics.
He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from CEMFI, in Madrid and a Licenciatura en Economía from the University of Salamanca. He is a applied macroeconomist with interests in trade and growth and development. His research focuses on understanding how trade, government policies, and market distortions affect aggregate productivity and welfare by changing the way resources are allocated across firms.
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Government procurement and macroeconomic outcomes
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- Productivity and Innovation 
- Industrial organisation 
- Politics and economics
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On the direct and indirect real effects of credit supply shocks
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- Europe's nations and regions 
- Global crisis
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Growing like Spain: 1995-2007
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- Europe's nations and regions 
- Industrial organisation 
- Productivity and Innovation
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The perverse effect of preferential rules of origins
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- International trade