Mónica Martínez Bravo
Universidad Pompeu Fabra – Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Born in Barcelona in 1982. In 2004 she completes her bachelor degree in Economics at University Pompeu Fabra (UPF) in Barcelona. In 2003 she obtains a scholarship from UPF to finance projects of international development. She collaborates for three months in a research project on poverty reduction and fiscal policy in Western Cape University (South Africa). During the 2004-2005 academic year, she studies the first year of the PhD on Economics in University Autónoma de Barcelona (International Doctorate in Economic Analisis). During that year she also works as teaching assistant of the course Advanced Macroeconomics and collaborates in several research projects on Labor Economics in University Pompeu Fabra. In 2005 she starts her PhD in Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She specializes in the fields of Political Economy and Development Economics. During the summer of 2006 she works as a research assistant of Professor Daron Acemoglu helping in the in the development of the book Introduction to Modern Economic Growth. In the summer of 2007 she works as a short term consultant for the Development Economic Research Group at the World Bank, in Washington DC. Nowadays her research focus is on explaining what factors promote the consolidation of democracy in developing countries. In addition to her dissertation research she is also a lecturer in several undergraduate courses at MIT and a member of the Graduate Economics Association, of which she was the Social Chair during the academic year 2006-2007.
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