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Professor Miguel León-Ledesma

Miguel León-Ledesma is a Professor of Economics at the University of Kent. He is Director of the Macroeconomics, Growth and History Centre (MaGHiC) and is Head of the School of Economics.
Miguel has been a consultant for the European Central Bank and the Asian Development Bank and is a member of the steering committee of the UK’s Money, Macro and Finance Group. He has been a visiting professor at the universities of Frankfurt, UTS (Sydney), Aix-Marseilles School of Economics, University of São Paulo, University of Cagliari, and the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (Tokyo). Miguel is a Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and a Fellow of the National Institute for Economic and Social Research (NIESR).
Miguel's research interests are in the areas of macroeconomics, economic growth, international economics, and applied econometrics.
His research has been published in journals such as The American Economics Review, American Economics Journal: Macroeconomics, Journal of the European Economic Association, and The Review of Economic Studies.
Miguel's RePEc page is http://econpapers.repec.org/RAS/ple108.htm
Current research themes within which Miguel can consider supervising PhD students, include:
Projects need to have a substantial theory and empirical content.
Administrative roles