Prof. Miguel León-Ledesma

Fellow

Research interests: 

Miguel León-Ledesma is Professor of Economics at the University of Kent, UK. He obtained a PhD in Economics at the University of La Laguna (1999). Miguel is the Director of the Macroeconomics, Growth, and History Centre (MaGHiC) at Kent, a Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and Steering Committee Member of the Money, Macro, and Finance Society (MMF). His research interests are in the areas of Economic Growth and Distribution, International Macroeconomics, and Business Cycles. He has published research in journals such as the American Economic Review, Review of Economic Studies, Journal of the European Association, and American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics amongst many others. Throughout his academic career he has engaged with policy institutions such as the European Central Bank, the Asian Development Bank. Miguel has been visiting scholar at the University of Frankfurt, Aix-Marseilles School of Economics, University of Cagliari, Graduate Institute for Policy Research (GRIPS), and University of São Paulo.