Miquel Faig i Aumallé is a professor of economics at the

University of Toronto Mississauga The University of Toronto Mississauga (abbreviated as U of T Mississauga or UTM) is the second-largest division of the University of Toronto and one of its three campuses, located in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. Established in 1967, the campus ...

. He completed his undergraduate studies at the

University of Barcelona The University of Barcelona (official name in ; UB), formerly also known as Central University of Barcelona (), is a public research university located in the city of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. It was established in 1450. With 76,000 students, ...

in 1979 and his PhD at

Stanford University Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University, is a Private university, private research university in Stanford, California, United States. It was founded in 1885 by railroad magnate Leland Stanford (the eighth ...

in 1986. He started his teaching career at the University of Toronto Mississauga upon completion of his doctoral studies. He was promoted to associate professor in 1992 and full professor in 2002. His research interests include

Monetary Theory Monetary economics is the branch of economics that studies the different theories of money: it provides a framework for analyzing money and considers its functions (as medium of exchange, store of value, and unit of account), and it considers how ...

Macroeconomics Macroeconomics is a branch of economics that deals with the performance, structure, behavior, and decision-making of an economy as a whole. This includes regional, national, and global economies. Macroeconomists study topics such as output (econ ...

and

Finance Finance refers to monetary resources and to the study and Academic discipline, discipline of money, currency, assets and Liability (financial accounting), liabilities. As a subject of study, is a field of Business administration, Business Admin ...

Selected articles

Faig, M. "Characterization of the Optimal Tax on Money when it Functions as a Medium of Exchange," ''Journal of Monetary Economics'' 22, July 1988: 137-148.
Faig, M. "Seasonal Fluctuations and the Demand for Money," ''Quarterly Journal of Economics'' 93, November 1989: 847-861.
Faig, M. and P. Shum, "Portfolio Choice in the Presence of Personal Illiquid Projects," ''Journal of Finance'' 57(1), February 2002: 303-328.
Faig, M., and B. Jerez, "A Theory of Commerce," ''Journal of Economic Theory'', 122 (1), May 2005 : 60-99.
Faig, M., and X. Huangfu, "Competitive Search Equilibrium in Monetary Economies." ''Journal of Economic Theory'' 136 (1), September 2007: 709-718.
Faig, M, "Endogenous Buyer-Seller Choice and Divisible Money in Search Equilibrium." ''Journal of Economic Theory'' 141(1), July 2008: 184-199.

Books

As part of a collection of socio-economic studies of the "

comarques The comarques of Catalonia (singular ''comarca'', , ), often referred to in English as counties, are an administrative division of Catalonia. Each comarca comprises a number of municipalities, roughly equivalent to a county in the United States. ...

" of

Catalonia Catalonia is an autonomous community of Spain, designated as a ''nationalities and regions of Spain, nationality'' by its Statute of Autonomy of Catalonia of 2006, Statute of Autonomy. Most of its territory (except the Val d'Aran) is situate ...

, the Caixa d' Estalvis the Catalunya published in 1983 the Catalan book ''La Garrotxa: Medi Natural, Estructura Económica i Equipaments Socials'', written by Margarida Castanyer and Miquel Faig.

References

External links

Faig's homepage
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