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2009 UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE CHAMPIONS: FC BARCELONA

MOTIVATIONAL VIDEO

(this video was designed by coach Pep Guardiola to motivate the players. It was seen by the players 5 minutes before the final game began)

ALL THE GOALS SCORED BY FCB DURING THE 2008-09 CHAMPIONS LEAGUE

THE FINAL

INIESTA'S GOL

(this is a goal in the last second of the semifinals against Chelsea, the goal that took us to the final)

And, of course, this is how the glorious month of May 2009 began

 

HISTORY!!!: TRES DE NOU AMB L'AGULLA

 

 

Guess who rang  the Opening Bell at t he NYSE on August 5th, 2008?

 

(look at the guy with the funny orange jacket!)

Click Here if you want to see the Video of the Event

Note: On August 5th the Dow Jones went up over 330 points or 2.94% (I guess they will invite me more often from now on)!!!

 

 

How was my 2006 summer?

Well, you will never guess what happened to me!

If you want to know, click here

 

 

 

Academic Stuff

 

 

 

  • Take a look at a new WORLDWIDE RANKING OF ECONOMISTS (Source: Essential Science Indicators published by the Institute for Scientific Information of Philadelphia, host of the Social Science Citations Index).

 

 

 

 

Click Here for a Recent Interview published in "World Economics"

 

  

 

AND NOW...

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A NOBEL MOMENT

 

 

Personal Stuff

 

 

Articles of mine appeared in Catalan newspapers

See the CATALAN VERSION 

See the SPANISH-ONLY VERSION

 

 

  The Paper The World Distribution of Income: Falling Poverty and Convergence, Period!

Published at the Quarterly Journal of Economics

 This papers have been quite well received by the popular media all over the world. Click here for dozens of references.

 

   

I was recently awarded the "King Juan Carlos I Prize of Economics" which is given to the person who the Bank of Spain thinks is the best economist in Spain and Latin America.

This is what the King thinks of this whole deal

(the King is the man in gray, next to the woman in pink, the Queen)

 

The $95.000 awarded with the King Juan Carlos I Prize were donated to UMBELE, a foundation dedicated to promote education and development in Africa. Click

 www.umbele.org

for more information on this Foundation

 

Other Stuff 

 


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