Edouard Schaal is a Senior Researcher at the Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI), Adjunct Professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) and Associate Research Professor at the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (BGSE). He is also a Research affiliate of the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). He is Editor at the Review of Economic Dynamics, Associate Editor at the Economic Journal and member of the editorial board of the Review of Economic Studies. He previously worked at New York University and the United States Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. His research interests include macroeconomics, business cycles, informational frictions, search and matching and economic geography. His work has been published in Econometrica and the Quarterly Journal of Economics.