Short biography
Paula Bustos is an ICREA research professor at Pompeu Fabra University, a Research Fellow at the European Economic Association, Chair of the EEA Women in Economics Committee, CEPR Research Fellow and co-leader of Trade and Spatial Frictions Theme of the STEG-CEPR program. She obtained her PhD in Economics at Harvard University and her Bachelor Degree at Universidad Torcuato di Tella in Argentina. She studies the economic effects of climate change, new agricultural technologies and international market integration. Her work has been published in leading journals such as the
American Economic Review and the
Quarterly Journal of Economics. Her research on agricultural productivity and structural transformation has been funded by a
Starting Grant from the European Research Council in 2017. Her new research line on adjustment to climate change in developing countries has been funded by a
Consolidator Grant in 2023.
