Fernando Ballabriga Clavería

Fernando Ballabriga Clavería is a Full Professor at the Department of Economics, Finance and Accounting, affiliated with Esade Business School (Ramon Llull University). He leads the Group of Research in Economics and Finance (GREF) and has held multiple internal grants to intensify research activities from 2016 to 2020. His expertise spans Monetary Policy, Macroeconomics, and Fiscal Policy, with a focus on distributional impacts, risk-sharing mechanisms, and European economic integration.

His research contributes to UN Sustainable Development Goals related to economic stability and inequality reduction. Notable projects include the GREF initiative (2022–2025) and studies on EMU forecasting models. He has published influential articles on unconventional monetary policy, Eurozone risk-sharing, and European economic asymmetries.

• Research Focus: Monetary Policy, Macroeconomic Stability, Income Distribution, Bayesian Economic Modeling
• Grants & Projects: Led 5 internal grants (2016–2020), co-founded GREF (2017–2025), and participated in international collaborations.
• Key Contributions: Pioneered analysis of UK monetary policy distributional effects and European macroeconomic asymmetries.

Ballabriga Clavería’s work bridges theoretical macroeconomics with policy applications, emphasizing the socio-economic impacts of financial and monetary decisions.