Carlos Mulas Granados

Carlos Mulas Granados (Madrid, Spain, 1974) is a Spanish economist and former university professor, specialists in macroeconomics, public finances and European economics. He is the author or co-editor of 3 books and over 30 academic journals. He gained fame when his ex-wife was involved in a media controversy for using a nickname while he was director of a think tank . He is the ex-husband of Irene Zoe Alameda and, as of 2015, an employee of the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

PhD in Economics from Cambridge University and advisor to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Carlos Mulas Granados was a tenured Professor of Economics at the Complutense University of Madrid until 2013 . In February 2013, after a media controversy and accusations launched by the conservative newspaper ElMundo against Mulas and the Ideas Foundation from the Spanish Socialist Party (PSOE), he resigned from his position as director. Mulas ran for the Spanish Congress Congreso de los Diputados de España in the list of that socialist party during the general elections of 2011 Elecciones generales de España de 2011. He also contributed to the economic program of the Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, and was deputy director of the Economic Office of the Prime Minister. He was later the Executive Director of the IDEAS Foundation until he joined the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

Publications

Books: -Economics, Politics and Budgets. The Political Economy of Fiscal Adjustments in Europe, Palgrave-MacMillan, 2006.

-El Estado Dinamizador: Nuevos Riesgos y Nuevas Politicas en Europa (Coord.), Editorial Complutense, 2010.

-Corrupción, Cohesion Social y Desarrollo en América Latina (with J.A. Alonso), Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2011.

Selected Publications in Academic Journals:

-"Debt Reduction, Fiscal Adjustment and Growth in Credit-Constrained Economies" (with E. Baldacci and S. Gupta), Journal of Applied Economics, Vol. 18 (1): 71–97, 2015

-"How to Cut Debt? Reassessing the Fiscal Mix for Successful Debt Reduction” (with E. Baldacci and S. Gupta), Economic Policy, Vol. 27 (71), pp: 365-406, 2012.

-"The fourth dimension: financial supervision and economic governance", After the crisis: A new socio-economic settlement for EU, Policy Network pp:77-87, 2010.

-“Do budget institutions matter? Fiscal consolidation in the new EU member states” (with J. Onrubia and J. Salinas), Eastern European Economics, Vol 47 (1), pp: 61-95, 2008.

-“The Dispersion of Technology and Income in Europe: Evaluation and Mutual Relationship Across Regions” (with I. Sanz), Research Policy, Vol 37 (5). pp: 836-848, 2007.

-“What Makes Fiscal fiscal policy sustainable? a survival analysis of fiscal consolidations in Europe” (with R. Maroto), Public Choice, Vol 134 (3-4). pp: 147-161, 2007.

-“An Enlarged Monetary Union? The Procedural Sources of Fiscal Policy in the New Member States” (with J.Onrubia and J.Salinas), International Journal of Public Policy, Vol. 1, No. 3. pp: 34-61, 2006.

-“The Phasing of Fiscal Adjustments: What Works in Emerging Market Economies?” (with E. Baldacci and S.Gupta), Review of Development Economics, Vol. 10. N. 4. pp: 612-631, 2006.

“Fiscal Policy, Expenditure Composition and Growth in Low-Income Countries” (with S.Gupta, B.Clements and E.Baldacci), Journal of International Money and Finance, Vol. 24. pp: 441-463, 2005.

-“The Persistence of Fiscal Adjustments in Developing Countries” (with S.Gupta, B.Clements and E.Baldacci), Applied Economic Letters, Vol. 11. pp: 209-212, 2004.

-“Voting Against Spending Cuts: The Electoral Costs of Fiscal Adjustments in Europe”, European Union Politics, Vol. 5, No. 4. pp: 467-493, 2004.

-“The Political and Economic Determinants of Budgetary Consolidation in the EU”, European Political Economy Review, Vol.1, No.1. pp: 25-49, 2003.

Ideas Foundation

In May 2009, Carlos Mulas Granados was appointed as Director of the Ideas Foundation. From that position he co-launched the Global Progress initiative in collaboration with the Center for American Progress. The Global Progress summits brought together world figures like Lula da Silva, Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, Thabo Mbeki, JL Zapatero, Michelle Bachelet, Gordon Brown or Francois Hollande, for different meetings held in Madrid, New York and London. In October 2011, at the request of the Ideas Foundation led by Mulas, these world leaders signed a petition to the G20 in favor of a social pact to end the crisis.

Mulas resigned as Executive Director of the Ideas Foundation in 2013 after fraud accusations emerged relating him to Amy Martin.[1]

Soon after leaving the Ideas Foundation he joined International Monetary Fund. In February 2013 he also abandoned the PSOE. In that period the Spanish conservative newspaper El Mundo reported against his famous ex-wife for writing articles using the nickname of Amy Martin, after discovering that she obtained 60,000 irregularly from the Foundation managed by her husband. Amy Martin claims that it was as part of a performance for her latest novel Last Days of Warla Alkman, published in November 2013.

Awards and recognitions

His article entitled “Duration of Fiscal Adjustments in the European Union” won the Prize of the Chair Uni-2 for the best article of European Economics at 2003

He was awarded the Medal of the Spanish Order Isabel la Católica in 2006, for his public services during his tenure as the Deputy Director of the Prime Minister’s Economic Office, a position to which he was appointed in 2004.

In April 2015, he received an IMF Global Award for his research and contributions to Inequality Issues. In the award ceremony, the IMF's Managing Director, Christine Lagarde praised the new contributions of Mulas's team in this area.

Activities of social entrepreneurship

He collaborated with the social initiatives of Aprocor Foundation for the inclusion of intellectually impaired people in the labor market. To give a good example, he worked directly with some of them.

As a co-founder of the production company Storylines he co-produced the short-film entitled “Have a Nice Trip”, which was recognized for its positive treatment of immigration , and he also co-produced the short-film “Uniformed”, a movie advocating gender equality in childhood. This latter work has received about thirty national and international awards and was selected as the Short of the Week in El País , ABC h[ttp://fibabc.abc.es/videos/uniformadas-1589.html] , and RTVE.

Political Activity

Member of "Economists 2004", a group of independent economists responsible for the economic program of the future Prime Minister Zapatero for the 2004 elections.

Member of the Editorial Committee of PSOE’s electoral manifesto in 2008 and 2011.

Candidate for Congress in the list of PSOE in Madrid (Spain) for the general elections held in 2011.

External links

References

  1. ↑ http://politica.elpais.com/politica/2013/01/24/actualidad/1359016518_632137.html

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  1. ↑ [Profesor Universidad Complutense de Madrid https://www.ucm.es/ecap2/cmulasgranados]
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