Esteban, Joan

Research Fellow

Research Groups

INSIDE

PhD:

Oxford University, 1988

Research Interests:

Social Conflict, Polarization, Income distribution and Inequality, Public Economics

Short Bio:

Joan Esteban, Ph D by the universities of Oxford and Autònoma de Barcelona, is research profesor at the Institut d’Anàlisis Econòmica (CSIC). He has been director of the IAE (CSIC) (1989-1991, y 2001-2006), regional delegate for the CSIC in Catalonia (1993-1996), representative of the Spanish Government at the High Council of the European University Institute, Florence (1989-1996), president of the Asociación Española de Economía (2002), member of the Executive Council of the International Economic Association (2005-2011), president (2007-2009) of the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality (ECINEQ) and Rey Jaime I laureate in Economics (2007). He is Secretary General of the International Economic Association. He has been principal researcher of the EC funded project “Polarization and Conflict” (2004-2008). His general area of interest is Economic Theory. Currently, he is working on political economy, social conflict and public economics.