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Miguel León-Ledesma is Professor of Economics and joined the University of Kent in 1999.
Miguel has been a regular consultant for the European Central Bank, and has also consulted for the Asian Development Bank. He has been a visiting researcher at the universities of Frankfurt, UTS (Sydney), and a Visiting Professor at University of Aix-Marseille, and the University of São Paulo.
Research
Miguel’s research interests are on the areas of Macroeconomics, Applied Econometrics and Economic Growth. He is currently working on the estimation of the elasticity of substitution and the bias in technical progress, and their consequences for growth and business cycles. He has carried out extensive work on international macroeconomics, unemployment dynamics and nonlinear time-series methods. Miguel is currently writing a post-graduate textbook on International Macro and Finance for Oxford University Press.
Miguel’s RePEc page is http://econpapers.repec.org/RAS/ple108.htm
Working papers
- “A disaggregate characterisation of recessions” (with Fabrizio Coricelli and Katerina Karadimitropoulou). KEDP 12/09.
- “Non-balanced growth and production technology estimation” (with P. McAdam and A. Willman). KEDP 12/03.
- “Interpreting the hours-technology time-varying relationship” (with C.Cantore and F.Ferroni). Banque de France Working Paper, 351 updated in KEDP 12/01.
- “Aggregation, the skill-premium and the two-level production function” (with P.McAdam and A.Willman). ECB Working Paper, 1400.
- “The Choice of CES Production Techniques and Balanced Growth” (with Mathan Satchi). KEDP 11/12.
- “Efficiency and frontier technology in the aftermath of recessions: international evidence” (with D. Christopoulos). KEDP 09/22.